Stop pretending art is hard

Lane Brown aka Lane Draws aka Lane Brown (based SC, USA) - The subject studies me back, 2022, Paintings: Digital Art

i love john brosio paintings bc theyll be an absolute gut punch that forces you to consider your own morality like two earthlings and they will also be Big Crab

“two earthlings”, an absolutely devastating oil painting that i think about every single day

“fatigue 2”, Big Crab

I hadn’t seen the second one.  You can just tell that guy is standing where his car should be.  He’s too tired to worry about the crab directly, he’s just thinking about how this means he’s gotta call the insurance company and lord knows if giant crab attacks are covered.  He’s looking off to the left because that’s where the bus stop is, he’s watching a bus pull up right now and thinking that while there’s a chance he could sprint for it and make it on he absolutely cannot bring himself to run right now - not from the crab, not to the bus, not for anything.  Fuck the diet, though, he’s getting fast food tonight.  Not like he can drive to the store now anyway.

Man has gotten the bus home (car crushed by giant crab) to find more sea creatures on his property

Is this targeted? What will this do to his insurance premiums?

Inktober day 11 : What lies below

Kim Dorland, Fever Dream

Incredible poster for Aliens by Krzysztof Domaradzki

Lucien’s Library—Bilquis Evely

Doodles from today

by threadhandedjill

So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I'm going to try it.

I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see “John knew that...” in prose writing I immediately think “how?  How does he know it?”  Interrogate your witnesses.  Cross-examine them.  Make them explain their reasoning.  It pays dividends.

All of this, but also feels/felt. My editor has forbidden me from using those and it’s forced me to stretch my skills.

This is your "show not tell" advice explained!

Tiles

Royal Pigeon

Noise sculpture by Tobias Bradford.

See more at Instagram HERE

TUUNBAQ my sketches from september of 2023

Now that finals are over, I can start posting again!

Here's another beast, and my first attempt at painting one of my sculptures. I also tried to put more details than I usually do, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

Head hunter sketch

Ivan Kramskoy (1837-1887) - “From dawn to dusk she wanders...”, 1874

illustration for Nikolai Gogol's 'A Terrible Vengeance'

HIGH ON STANDARDS LOW ON SKILL. CREATIVE PROCESS MAKE YOU ILL

LOW ON STANDARDS GETS IT DONE

IT LOOKS LIKE SHIT BUT I HAD FUN