#artistic abilities test

[kit-the-dreamer]

Snowy °.• ♡

(sackthing OC by @thegoobiedoober )

I had this drawing pendant to finish for a pretty long time by now, as I wasn't willing to add the final details, but I believe it's finally done :3

I know I said it before (somewhere) that I dream of opening (LBP) art comissions someday, but for that I wanted to prove myself and my abilities, and see if they are worth paying for. I'm not sure what the answer for that is though, but I'm pretty proud of these drawings.

(Btw, the character reference was taken from here ♧, so my apologies if the color palette is innacurate ;w;. I hope you liked it nonethess, haha. It was fun working on it ^^)

[foxenavian]

This is one of my favorite pieces in my portfolio. It was a rendered halfbody commission for a user on Flight Rising. It didn't do well on my other platforms because of how busy and bright it is, but maybe it'll do better here.

[deoidesign]

Quick re-do of a 4 year old piece

[royaltea000]

burnt out sorry - do ya wanna see my ocs (not giving you a choice)

Old designs -w-

[bluegarners]

if i could draw, i would draw bruce all the time tbh. i'd be too afriad to attempt anyone else bc bruce is too easy, while everyone else has harder features. with bruce, as long as you've got small eyes, heavy brow, big chin, and black hair- why, anyone could instantly tell who he is

[kkmcshouty]

May or may not have whipped this up a bit ago purely cause I realized I didn't have any current images of K or David when I wanted to post a thing on my instagram story with songs relating to each character (Icarus by Emma Blackery for K [with someone telling him this when he's young] and King by Lauren Aquilina for David [where he'd be the one telling this sentiment to someone else]) and boy did I speedrun this at 2.5 hours

Not much to say otherwise, as for the Soular Flare timeline this would take place somewhere between the accident where K and David got their powers (the colored glasses being a telltale sign) and before Everything Went Wrong (we don't see them together after that....)

Like usual timelapse is below the cut!

[solradguy]

Being an otherkin bastard's fun actually until someone asks you a sorta deep question about it and then you're confronted with The Horrors of Introspection

[darewolfcreates]

Splat lore :]

[simonwimon]

Little Guys :]

[dissidiacloudstrife]

something funny about sketching and then wanting to make it better is sometimes a referenced and then re-sketch can be further away from what you want

im still not 100% happy with that last sketch but its much closer to the feel i wanted

more thoughts under the read more

despite the first sketch's perspective being fuck all, the idea is conveyed REALLY well i feel like when i did the traced/heavily referenced one (i used a ff/14 screenshot) i got really upset by how tiny the body was and that you actually couldnt see the sword hand! i worked really hard to make that perspective work but sometimes you just gotta realize either you have to change the composition completely around what you want or just leave it be. i left it be for my sanity lmao

the re-sketch was a lil better, it made me realize what i really wanted from the idea (how the hair is billowing in fake wind, his legs being completely bent and not half bent, coat tail sticking more to his ass rather than billowing to show off the legs more, and the perspective of the collar and chest area)

the last sketch was more or less a clean up of all the ideas i wanted, and while its not 100% to what i want, i wanna be done and move on to other shit. i think i would change his facial expression the most because while i think the seriousness is conveyed well, it's not the righteous/pissed off to high hell look i originally was going for.

anyways i love genesis and i hope this makes me better at drawing like this \o/

[klug]

I wish I remembered how to do character design at all

[mornyavie]

I'm sure that this is in the notes over and over again, but worth commenting: on a digital device, this kind of test is going to depend on your device at least as much as it does on your actual color vision. Some screens may be literally unable to display subtle differences that you could detect in real life. The natural / artificial lighting (or lack thereof) on your screen will change your perception of the colors. Your brightness and contrast settings may change it. Etc tc.

It can be fun, but don't get too caught up in the meaning of your score - and consider trying it on a different device to see if your experience changes!

How well do you see color?

I’m cry I scored 60, I feel blind

[themandalalady]

24-116 Challenge

[hyde-nseek]

So I took a career interest test for one of my college courses, and one of the options for what I'd be interested in or good at is "Social Media Influencer."

...

That said, I don't think all career tests are reliable

[gallusrostromegalus]

If you please; what is your Tolberone theory of knowledge?

My theory, which I thought up a few weeks ago while sick with covid, is that all knowledge is a form of art, and that there are very broadly three basic types of knowledge arts: physical arts, philosophical arts, and scientific arts, and that pretty much all academic, artistic and practical disciplines exist somewhere in that triangle spectrum.

Physical arts are knowledges of how to actually, physically do things. The purest front of physical arts are things like dance and navigation.

Scientific arts are knowledges of things that can be tested and proven. Computer programming and Quilting are both scientific arts: they work, or they don't.

Philosophical Arts are knowledges of things which while not objectively provable, are still very real. History and Being A Good Listener are philosophical arts.

Nearly every discipline of knowledge is some combination of all three. Cooking is largely applied chemistry, a scientific art, but it's also a philosophical art because flavor is extremely cultural and contextual, and a physical art because you have to know how to hold the damn knife and heat when it's done.

The first part of toblerone theory is that, like how each piece has three sides, any given project needs at least one person who has a good grasp of each of the underlying arts involved or it's going to go sideways at best. For example:

Physical and Scientific arts, no philosophy: Jurassic Park. They need someone to point out that, while very possible, it's not necessarily a good idea.

Philosophy and Science, no physical: that dril tweet about the forum debate locked by a mod after 12,000 pages of heated debate. They need someone to drag them away from the keyboard and actually do something.

Philosophy and Physical, no science: that cult in midsommar that put a guy in a bearsuit. Without the ability to engage measurably with the world, they give into fear and behave like reactive animals. Also the "rare chicken steak" phenomenon.

You can have differing ratios of each type- Jurassic Park really only needed two philosophers: one animal behaviorist and an OSHA inspector, and 98% of the issues would have been avoided- but you do need at least ONE of each underlying art to check each other's work.

The second part of toblerone theory is that, like how the toblerone is made of many triangle pieces, there are poles to the triangle spectrum. Practical vs Esoteric arts. Short term and long term arts. High stakes vs for funsies arts.

While you have have different ratios and levels of expertise in each of the arts, you do all need them to be on the same piece of the bar, or they won't take each other seriously. A UN Diplomat and a climate scientist aren't going to take the advice of physical artist my uncle Bobby the plumber re: global warming, but they will take the advice of physical artist my Aunt Cheryl the civil engineer, a world expert in getting shit done.

The same applies for the other end of the spectrum. Aunt Cheryl the civil engineer isn't going to get much milage with the local high school student council and principal Waley when the problem at hand is "what are we going to do for this year's prom theme?"

I gotta go to therapy now, pictures later.

[shittywriterbrain]

hate it when creative thinking is reduced to problem solving. "can you solve problems creatively?" no but i make my own problems quite creatively thank you very much