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sheltiechicago · 1 month ago

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Photo: Mike Sommer

Artist “Draws” Stunning Portraits by Steadily Cracking Glass

While most of us take care not to break glass, artist Simon Berger has made a career out of doing just that. By carefully hammering pieces of glass, he uses this fragile material like a sheet of paper for his incredibly life-like portraits.

Photo: Laura Scatena

#simon berger #artist #art #portraits #steadily cracking glass #glass #life-like portraits #mike sommer #photographer #laura scatena

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dennydreadful · 5 months ago

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it really works! source: me

#comic #sona #self portrait #art #sketch #i actually like myself for like the first time in my life :)#i got a little black mock neck crop top and its life changing

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lethologicaee · 2 months ago

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due in four days. spent nine hours on the CLOUDS today. someone put me out of my misery

#my art #it’s not even that serious this is COMMUNITY COLLEGE #i called out of work to paint this #like #?#cowboy life is just that srs i guess #oil painting #self portrait #mark maggiori inspired as you can surely tell

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buildoblivion · 9 months ago

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a time lady

#13 has never looked this serene in her life but hey #so I was watching arc of infinity right #and realised that High Chancellor Thalia’s dress so looks like a 16th century burgundinian/‘the Holbein Anne of Cleves portrait’ dress #and then this happened #possibly my nerdiest art ever lol #I almost drew lala in this fit but I haven’t drawn 13 in ages sooooo have #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #Jodie Whittaker #Doctor who #Gallifrey #time lord #time lady #my art #fanart #minsart #they should have put Jodie in time lord garb tbh she would so pull it off

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crancisfrozier · 3 months ago

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I didn’t know there were actual pictures of James Clark Ross!!! Look at him!!!

#James Clark Ross #he’s just a little guy!! 🥺🥺🥺#so handsome!! just like his portraits!!!#he reminds me so much of someone but I cannot for the life of me place who #GOD I wish photography had been around and more mainstream just a little bit earlier #I would kill a man to have a real picture of young JCR 😭😭

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sforzesco · 2 months ago

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WINTER BREAK

much like marriage matches, the stakes are pretty high for getting into the cardinalate. you might be a little on edge if the brother that's been earmarked for the role isn't really jazzed about the whole thing, in addition to trying to convince the pope that it's in his best interest to let this happen.

A Renaissance Court: Milan Under Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Gregory Lubkin

eventually I'm going to get the whole cast of sforza siblings drawn. there's just. a lot of them.

#in true oldest sibling/head of the house fashion galeazzo will continue to bring up ascanio's early clerical life up until he dies lmao #anyway ascanio's got a weird thing going on with fathers. there's that portrait story and also whatever the fuck was up with #ludovico like i get that it was probably his way of going heyyyyy! look at me! i'm just a little guy! i'm not a threat! but it's also very #veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. something #italian renaissance tag #komiks tag #lmao i finally decided to bite the bullet and make a whole separate blog for a future sforza comic like at this point im locked in and #committed to the sforzas.#MOVING BACK TO ASCANIO it's kind of. uh. sometimes i'll read a chapter of the biography and it'll describe something that's #very obviously a major depressive episode and i'm like. man. look at that. you gave a perfectly good would be dynast a major #depression disorder. imagine the problems he would've caused if they had anti depressants back then

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soybean-official · 2 years ago

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What's going to happen to me now?

#devil may cry #beanie art #vergil devil may cry #vergil dmc #nelo angelo #urizen dmc #v devil may cry #v dmc #dmc fanart #devil may cry fanart #i mean do i have to tag the nightmares too #anyways let me elaborate on the piece here in the tags #its based on Triple Self Portrait by Norman Rockwell #planned to do a thing where each reflection is holding in its left hand whatever vergil's 'heart' is at each point in his life #while the right hand would hold his 'weapon'#like the symbolism at the end of VoV where the young vergil is holding the book and the yamato #for nelo angelo it's the amulet as his heart and mundus's sword as his weapon #for urizen he has nothing in his hand as his heart and the qliphoth fruit as his weapon #v was meant to have his book in his hand as his heart and the familiars as his weapon #and ofc young vergil has the amulet and the yamato (hes looking at nelo angelo in the leftmost mirror whats he thinking HMMM)#but regardless the way the piece worked out you cant see everybodys hands!!!#it be like that sometimes i hope someone reads these tags and sees the intent lol

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thekitofit · 3 months ago

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[ commissions open! or buy me a coffee? ]

#on first glance it loooks kinda cool. on second glance it's just. hmmmmmmmmmm needs work!!!#anyway i tried only using one brush. that i've never much used before. so.#i feel like if i spend a couple more hours working on it it might turn out p good but. i'm tired and work is consuming my life #OKAY that's enough with the excuses here come the tags #digital art #digital portrait #the terror #the terror amc #the terror fanart #james fitzjames #tobias menzies #my art #full colour painting

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pigeonkitsch · 4 months ago

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happy belated birthday to my autistic king. honored to be one of his 20 fans

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whiteboardartstudios · 28 days ago

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I SAID I WAS GOING TO DRAW THAT CAR SO HERE WE ARE (I hope you enjoy this is the stupidest thing I've drawn in months /affectionate)

(I put the image descriptions in the Alt text this time because there's so many images. If it doesn't work please tell me and I'll yeet them in the actual post!!)

happy finale of Wild Life everybody! :D

#would you believe me if I told you that I had to come up with designs for everybody on the spot #cuz I've never actually drawn these guys before #the life series versions anyways #also yes gem is coming with joel #they're a family! you can't separate them!#I imagine it's a bit of a situation like gem is dropping joel off at daycare #even though joel's driving #I hope all the text is readable #I had to sacrifice a bit of visual flair for readability and contrast so I hope it worked well #also the idea of Grian's body being essentially a empty-eyed meat suit/puppet thing #while the actual Grian emotes with the giant floating eye thing is really funny to me #partially taken inspiration from mambodork's buttercups homeowners association au lol #I also really like this pearl design #I don't know why but her expressions are so fun to me #I tried putting some easter eggs in this despite not knowing a lot of life series lore #for example in cleo's winner's portrait they're being puppeted by another cleo wearing vr glasses! :D #idk I thought it was cool #there's a few more easter eggs/references in here feel free to go look for them #can't reveal all my secrets at once >:3 #anyways yeah this brings me an inordinate amount of joy #...frick I forgot my tags #uhhh #whiteboardartstudios #original post #I guess #my art #?#life series #trafficsmp #traffic smp

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antianakin · 2 months ago

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Happy fix-it AU where Padme leaves Anakin anyway because she realizes how bad he is for her, and she ends up retiring because she REALLY doesn't want to be a Senator anymore (it was also maybe encouraged by her Queen after her secret marriage to a Jedi was discovered) and she goes back to Naboo to be with her family. She's left behind her responsibilities but she doesn't know what to do now, she's just... adrift, sort-of in limbo and mourning her relationship with Anakin. She has to keep convincing herself not to go back to him because she KNOWS she doesn't want that anymore, she KNOWS she doesn't want to be the person she was with him again, but the thrill of the secret marriage to someone who was so passionate about being with her is also sort-of like a drug.

Her parents both offer to let her come help them in their respective jobs, but she doesn't really have the energy for that right now. She DOES like helping Sola with her nieces because their energy and innocence seems to be a balm for her heart. One day, Sola asks if Padme can take the kids to a local festival in Theed one day while she and her husband go do something else, and Padme agrees. The girls are old enough and Theed is safe enough that they can wander off on their own away from Padme as long as they know not to go TOO far and come back to her after a little while. As she peruses the different artwork on her own, one artist's work stands to her more than anyone else's, it just hits at the core of her and she's not even sure why. She stands in front of a painting of a bird in flight for what seems like hours, though it can't be more than a minute or two, before the artist himself comes over to speak to her.

He addresses her as Senator Amidala, and she quickly tells him that she's not a Senator anymore and she doesn't really want to go by the name Amidala either, she prefers just Padme these days. He agrees, and something about him, maybe his eyes, seems familiar but she can't quite put her finger on it. They talk about his art for a while and everything he says about his inspiration feels like it's speaking directly to her. Eventually, Pooja and Ryoo come up to her and start pulling at her hands, demanding that she come see something with them. Before she leaves, she finally realizes she didn't even know his name and asks him.

It's Palo. The first boy she'd ever loved. The last time she'd seen him she'd been twelve in the Legislative Youth Program. She knew he'd left politics to become an artist instead, but she'd never actually seen any of his art before or ever tried to get back in contact with him. Now she wishes she had. Pooja and Ryoo are still pulling her away so she doesn't have time to really get over her shock at this revelation before she has to leave him behind and someone else comes up to ask him a question in her place.

He shows up at her parents' door the next day with the painting of the bird she'd so adored, and offers it to her as a gift. He refuses to accept any payment for it no matter how much she insists, but asks if she'd be willing to take a walk with him instead. She agrees. They end up spending the whole day together, just talking. For the first time, Padme doesn't feel like she's drowning in her own feelings or floating with no direction. She feels a lot like she's finally come home.

#star wars #padme amidala #palo #palo star wars #anakin critical #anakin skywalker critical #anidala critical #anti anidala #i guess these two would be palodala #palodala #palodala au #i don't think artists on naboo would ever struggle for money #i feel like naboo is so committed to investing in its artists of all kinds that that just doesn't happen #but i kinda want padme to be palo's sugar daddy anyway #“padme sweetheart i make plenty of money i don't need you to keep giving me more”#“i am going to dress you in the finest fabrics and give you literally everything you have ever wanted just because i can”#“will it make you happy?”#“deliriously”#“fine”#they have like 6 kids together because padme wants a big family and he's super happy to oblige #all of padme's handmaidens THOROUGHLY support her new choice of beau #he has no ambitions beyond what he's already accomplished for himself #he likes to tell padme that he had only had one major life goal left and that was to paint a portrait of the queen #and now he gets to paint portraits of the queen everyday if he wants #and he's supportive of whatever padme wants to do #if she wants to just settle down and be a housewife that's totally fine #if she wants to occasionally go out to help with the refugees in some sort of grassroots organization that's also fine #between their two families and the handmaidens there's no shortage of help taking care of the kids #and she's never gone for that long when she knows she has something so beautiful to come home to

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sheltiechicago · 1 month ago

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Photo: Francesco Allegretto

Artist “Draws” Stunning Portraits by Steadily Cracking Glass

While most of us take care not to break glass, artist Simon Berger has made a career out of doing just that. By carefully hammering pieces of glass, he uses this fragile material like a sheet of paper for his incredibly life-like portraits.