Thank you!

The balance of detail and abstraction is something I’m trying to work on. I find myself focusing in on some details unnecessarily and bringing attention away from the interesting bits or parts that I want to bring the viewers attention to, so your comment is particularly welcome.

I’m painting for fun and to help with anxiety mostly.

Honestly, thank you for your kind words.

Love how purposeful and also loose and casual each stroke is, it has a confidence that’s compelling.

Thanks for sharing, song slaps and the riding is lovely.

Just realized I was getting cross posted. Thank you.

They’ve said they are working on integration with other apps, and have said the ultimate goal is the AI could create its own interface for any app. I dunno if that’s gonna happen but if it did it would be closer to an actual assistant, imagine “rabbit, log onto my work schedule app and check my vacation hours” or “rabbit, compare prices for a SanDisk 256 gig memory card on Amazon, eBay, and Newegg”.

More than likely it’ll just fuck it all up but that’s the dream I think.

I left the flash as a large white box, completely separate from the camera body since I wanted a hard edge. I filled the box with a series of warm and cool strokes up and down to mimic the reflections, darks splotches last and a couple warm glazes until it felt… like, aged enough? If that makes sense? I gave it a thick dark edge when I realized I’d missed the proportions a bit to cover my mistake (lol).

I’m realizing now, the whites are just paper, no gouache used at all.

The lenses I used a bit of masking since I wanted to try a controlled backwash to get an organic lens distortion, I tried on both lenses and they both more or less work imo to create that effect I was going for.

Beautiful, love the light skipping across the lillypads and where the water disperses the light so you get those rich colors in the pools, ripples and koi are just icing. Lovely.

Also the composition flows really well, kudos there.

Reference.

I had one of these when I was a kid, passed down from who knows, I used to love taking photos when I could get my hands on film.

First off, the marble background, if that’s what you were going for, is phenomenal, the color and texture is spot on.

Your colors are begging for more saturation, rich beautiful saturated colors. With some work on perspective and some shadows to support it the realistic vibe I think you’re going for would really work well. Unless that’s not what you’re going for and you’ve got a vibe and style you want.

I can see some good wet on wet (like the rust suggestion on the pipe, among others) which I love, and given your couple of months introduction is just great to see, wet on wet has a ton of depth to it. Keep experimenting with it. I can see you playing with shadows, they are so hard, but keep trying. Shadows can do so much heavy lifting in a painting when they are done right. 💛

Thanks! The shadows are Daniel Smith Moonglow, normally I’d have used something like neutral tint but I wanted to see if Moonglow alone would give a metallic feel to the white tube. I think it kinda does.

Thanks, I’d already posted there but your post got more traction than my own post did.

Source https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/painttubereference.jpg

Maybe the family brought it in…

I mean yeah, some might use the feature to create an echo chamber for themselves and all the toxicity that can bring is a concern, the alternative is a user experience plagued with content you literally cannot read. I exclusively browse via an app, Google Translate isn’t an option. I have no problem with Germans, if they want to contribute to discussion on English speaking instances- great, I want to see their contributions. I’d just like the ability to cut content that I will never interact with.

The concern that people are going to block instances and complain about the death of Lemmy due to a lack of content feels a bit like a straw man. One could argue that the inability to control content they consume might drive people away and lead to the death of Lemmy. That seems just as plausible but equally unfounded.

I’m sympathetic to your concerns but if someone wants to dodge an instance they don’t want to view for whatever reason they should be able to do that. Blocking posts on an instance from showing up in your ‘all’ feed seems reasonable however, I agree, the members of that instance should be excluded from blanket blocks.

Edit- also, sorry you got downvoted. And I’ll look around for the language options. Thanks.

I’ve got “English” already set so not sure what I’m doing wrong.

Or I could block German language instances. Why do you care what I block?

I don’t speak German.

I post here only so other people would feel encouraged to post. I’m flattered, but… no, no website. I’m just someone trying to paint their anxiety away.

Right on, thanks!

It’s actually a Halloween decoration.

I ordered half a dozen blocks from Jackson, thanks for the recommendation! It’s as good or better than any other cellulose paper and pretty inexpensive. Cold press and Rough finish is nice, have not tried Hot press. Definitely recommend this paper.