#how to model

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

#WERE LOSING YUZU AND CITRA. I DONT KNOW IF YOU ALL UNDERSTAND HOW INSANE THIS IS #game emulation enables piracy yes but it’s also an INCREDIBLY powerful archival tool. #there are plenty of games out there that only exist in their original formats due to emulation. #this lawsuit has HORRIBLE implications for video game history. it makes it incredibly easy for companies to scorched earth their products #if they’re not profitable enough. ART IS GOING TO BE LOST BECAUSE OF THIS. GAMES PEOPLE WORKED INCREDIBLY HARD ON #it won’t just happen to bad games. it won’t just happen to old games. they will use this to keep their remake/virtual console model going #forever and you will never be able to play your favorite games in their true original forms ever again. #i am fucking INSANELY mad rn. capitalism is the death of art fr #personal

[somewhatidealname]

felt like drawing the small differences in his designs, especially their eyes

#art #fnaf #springtrap #curious as to which game model ppl like most #i think i like his eyes in fnaf 3 most. but it is funny how ar springtrap would bite your entire face off with that mouth

[lnmei]

👏💥

#my art #figure drawing #fullmetal alchemist #blown out white light is actually something I rarely try even tho I like how it looks so much… #the model wore the actual metal arm it was very impressive

[excali8ur]

Short sibling oppression

#Based on a true story (my sister is like half a foot taller than me) #art #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #2012 raph #2012 donnie #donnie #raph #teenage mutant ninja turtles #You can tell I forgot how to draw them because this is weirdly on-model (I was forced to use references)

[nmzuka]

my humble offering

#mothzilla #mosugoji #godzilla #mothra #zuka doodles #drawings #mothra: the new colors are nice btw~ #Goji: oh thank you! #I killed Tiamat to get them #I was trying to draw them at least kind of on model.... #but did take a lot of artistic liberties #cause realism does not at all suit my style #but Im really proud of how they turned out! #and think I did the coloring pretty dang good too

[lifethroughlenss]

Model like you mean It

#fine art modeling #photography #model #modeling photography #fine art #fine art modeling photograhpy #how to model #fine art poses #poseing model pics #model pictures #fine art photography skills #artistic photoshoot #artistic modeling

[majunju]

catch up

#honkai star rail #my art #saw how stelle's model is almost a head taller than yanqing and i was like.. damn... i never realised how tall she was?? #LIKE SHE TOWERS OVER ALMOST EVERYONE ITS CRAZY

[nazumichi]

not to be a little hater, but anytime my fav fictional guys are drawn with perfectly sculpted abs and a six pack and absolutely no body fat, i do feel rage with the force of a thousand fiery suns in my being. stop that. stop it. stop.

#raii talks a lot #this was deleted first time round but I saw one of those posts criticising (rightfully so) #those art tutorials where it’s like “here’s how to draw a man!! *picture of a body-builder*” “here’s how to draw a woman!! *model*” #put some stomach on that beast some chest. by trying to create appeal you’ve destroyed it hope this helps. leave shirou alone also

[rhinocio]

seemed like the right time

bonus:

#you know how you’re like 10x braver being out when other queers are around #anyway transfemme 2012 Leo truther here #tried to stay on model and lol can you tell Rise’s angular shapes don’t come naturally #TMNT 2012 #TMNT #ROTTMNT #leonardo #michelangelo #donatello #raphael #rhinociart #save rise of the tmnt #save rottmnt #unpause rottmnt #unpause rise of the tmnt #trans leo #turtle cousins au #just realized I gave Raph a tail in the sketch and then forgot to ink it entirely #tmnt crossover

[dragonroilz]

#ultrakill #ultrakill v1 #robots #my art #something came over me #i dont know why i drew them in this pose #im pretty happy with this one though #va proxy has buffed me up with how complex s-105 is #drawing v1 with the 3d model as a reference is kind of a cakewalk now

[friendlyengie]

hey do you guys want some references. Because brother I have some fucking references for you.

#You have no IDEA how many times I clicked through the comics. #if I were a worse off person it might’ve driven me insane but luckily I have adhd so this has just been like a type of therapy to me #tf2 #tf2 reference #Long post #Engie is the only one here with references pulled from multiple comics because of how little he pops up in the official series #And he is also the one whose canon art I purposefully ignore the most #he’s like 5’4” in my heart. Forever. #that blank head turn on the 3d model refs was just pulled from an article so. Let me know if I accidentally stole from someone or smth

[rikacreature]

wanted to make a low poly fox cuz i thought "yea this'll be quick and easy" and then proceeded to spend the entire afternoon on it

#i think most of that time was spent trying to figure out how to make shadows on a low poly model look good #3d model #3d stuff #fox

[marisatomay]

i’m so sick of writers who proudly proclaim that they don’t read and directors and actors and other filmmakers who smugly say that they rarely watch movies or any artist who acts like an audience is stupid for connecting with their work like what the fuck is wrong with you that you hold such contempt such derision for the art that you have chosen to make the art that so many people dream of the opportunity to make the art that brings meaning and connection to people’s lives it’s unbelievably disrespectful to both your audience and the art-form and if you can’t muster basic respect for either your art-form or your audience then kindly fuck off and do something else

#i hate how rare it is to have an actor be like ‘yeah i just really love movies and going to the movies it’s the best i love what i do’ #to the point where when an actor or director IS like that people are like ‘wow what a freak…they’re faking it for attention’ like!! no!! #that’s what it’s SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE!! you WANT creators who are obsessed with their medium!!! #and what gets me about the people who don’t feel that way is the clear Pride they feel like they’re Better for not caring #that uk ya author adapting the odyssey and admitting that they’ve never read the odyssey or the iliad #that writer on twitter saying that telling writers to read is ableist #the russo brothers saying that the theatrical experience is elitist and auteurism should bow to the disney/netflix model #christain bale and any number of other actors who proudly announce that they don’t watch movies #sam levinson who talks about tv like it’s a long movie because he can’t hack it as a filmmaker like his dad but he doesn’t actually LIKE tv #like i get not wanting to consume your own work after it’s released unless it’s for research or self reflection purposes #but you do not exist or create in a vacuum and it’s SO disrespectful and arrogant to act like you do

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

more of the dapper lad! i Cannot get him out of my brain

#i sit down to draw dragons and/or ocs and OOPS my hand slipped its wally #hes so. bites him bites him bites him #but affectionately <3 #but also with affectionate intent to maim <3 #every time i feel like my feelings about him are starting to level out to a normal baseline.... #....i feel a heart squeeze and im back to insanity #welcome home #scribble garnish #wally darling #welcome home wally #welcome home puppet show #also i am once again imaging that he is modeling for sally #this is alternatively titled 'consistency? dont know her' #his hair confuses me so much #no matter how many times i look at references or draw him it still baffles me #which way does it curl? how does it floof? fuck if i know! #yknow before i drew this i set out with the intent to put Other neighbors in schmancy outfits #and then i saw that colorblock shirt. and it all went downhill #its 2 am now. #i spent a solid hour making a fancy background but i scrapped it bc it was Too Much

[daftpatience]

this post reminded me of this ~scenario~ that happens to me and other fat folks quite often! thin folks that are our friends, support fat folks, but haven’t quite had the time or chance or willingness to unlearn fatphobic ideas in relation to themselves. we know you still think of fatness as inherently unhealthy and unattractive, work on it ♥

#any weirdos are getting blocked asap #and uhh if you come asking for advice or how to unlearn it idk man follow fat creators #listen to fat people talk about their experiences #follow fat instagram models and allow yourself to find them attractive #its fun i promise #youll grow i promise #finding beauty in a wider range of body types has only ever done my brain good #you learn to love yourself through loving others #cw weight #cw fatphobia