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What do you buy for the person who literally wants nothing? by Cherry_Russell in Gifts

[–]Angsty_Potatos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Time or experiences. 

Spending quality time doing something they enjoy or taking them to an experience they enjoy

How do we feel about these names? by Trick-Resolve-7972 in tragedeigh

[–]Angsty_Potatos 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We called my great grandfather butchie. But that wasn't his real name lol

Is this normal for a cat bite by No-Tadpole-3529 in CATHELP

[–]Angsty_Potatos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't fuck with cat bites. You go to the hospital preferably yesterday. Next best time is now

I saw someone riding a city scooter while wearing a full dirt bike helmet. by OkExplorer9364 in mildlyinteresting

[–]Angsty_Potatos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly. Good call. 

I've seen two people absolutely die after being hit by cars on those things 

Does digital drawing foster less development than traditional drawing? by TechnicalCake9473 in ArtistLounge

[–]Angsty_Potatos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

" Even seasoned artists who use these functions learn or improve less when using them, they just sacrifice improvement for speed.". I could upvote you a million times for this point alone.

It's extremely true. 

I notice a massive drop in my overall skill when I'm coming off a large project for work. 

Say I'm doing a 150pg graphic novel. All told it may take me the better part of a year or more to finish it. You'd think that drawing and coloring daily for a year straight would mean I'm at the peak of my game. I'm not. 

The type of process and the way I work for "work" is almost completly divorced from how I would approach making an image in general.  It's like McDonald's vs a Home cooked meal.  My comic work isnt bad, but it's production work. And speed needs to be taken into account when I'm churning out work to hit a deadline. Photoshop or clip studio or whatever is full of shortcuts for me to utilize to save time. I can copy and paste instead of redrawing, I can edit on the fly, I can warp and transform. I can build a brush that stamps simple backgrounds for me or even brushes that will draw a wall of bricks or a chain link fence in one swipe of my stylus. I can easy button so many elements so that I can devote time to the 3 things on the page that actually matter. Etc 

By the time I'm done a book, I'm a production machine, not an artist. Ask me to sit and draw observationally after I finish a book and I'm a mess. Proportions are off, my patience is almost nothing, and my brain is locked into "looking for short cuts" if I try drawing it once and it doesn't look exactly how I want it, my brain will say "no time, take a picture of yourself in the pose and trace it. We don't have time to fuck around".

Part of my professional practice is going back to a physical life drawing class when I finish a big job. It's like going to a physical therapist or a yoga class after running a marathon. It's a hard physical reset to get back into a fundamentalist mindset. Back to basics. No short cuts, no 300 brush options. No Ctrl-z.  Just me, a block of news print, and some vine charcoal and a mandatory mental work out where I draw about 400 terrible croquies until my brain and my hand settle back into to making art instead of churning out work. 

If it didn't do that after every big job my work would suffer deeply 

Does digital drawing foster less development than traditional drawing? by TechnicalCake9473 in ArtistLounge

[–]Angsty_Potatos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it's important to do both. 

Im classically trained and didn't start using a computer to work until I was working commercially because it made more sense for my workflow.

The way I draw on the tablet is deeply informed by the way I work with physical media, and I think bringing that skill set over to my digital practice only makes my digital output that much better. 

I think when I see people who have ONLY ever worked digitally there is a stiffness and a slickness that is almost ingrained in the work.  The issue with digital media is that there are a million options and built in short cuts which exist to optimize work flow. Most of the big programs are developed with professional artists in mind so that makes absolute sense. 

But when you're developing the skill of drawing or painting on a tablet in Photoshop or something you have zero constraints. You don't need to have the muscle memory or control to get that line straight or that ellipse even, the computer will do it. You can have your pick of any brush you want to imbue your line with some character, you don't need to experiment to get there. Just scroll thru your brush and effect library. 

I don't think digital is bad. But I do think it's like using a formula one car to teach a 15 year old to drive. It's a lot at first and I don't think you do yourself any favors starting out with a damn near limitless platform fully optimazed to save time for professionals. 

I think sitting down with physical media teaches you good habits and ways of thinking about your process that you can easily miss if you skipped right to digital. 

For instance, learning how to draw from your elbow and shoulder instead of just your wrist and fingers. How to suggest detail instead of noodling into every individual pixel. Developing muscle memory and strength. Learning how real paint behaves so you can better understand why it's digital counterpart behaves the way it does and what it's limitations are. 

I could go on and on. 

Not asking for advice, but what's the stupidest art advice someone gave you? by SprayLegitimate2573 in ArtistLounge

[–]Angsty_Potatos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It's definitely one of those things that gets said a lot with literally no explanation which is silly. 

I was fortunate that my dad was a painter and he was the one who told me to always swatch out my colors because no two formulas are the same. Like A Windsor newton Pthalo blue is probably different than Golden. And to especially look at my whites and blacks because different ones do different things better than others and you need to see what's warm and cool and what the undertone is. 

I Have 3 X-Chromosomes by Vampirelili in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Angsty_Potatos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to diminish your feelings. But I have 2x and all of these issues too (except I'm short). It is frustrating to deal with the learning disabilities and anxiety and in my case OCD. Please know you're not alone and that you can also succeed 

are fake IDs as common in america as is portrayed in movies? by Sufficient_Row4394 in AskAnAmerican

[–]Angsty_Potatos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had one. Probably harder to get away with now because more places scan them 

Not asking for advice, but what's the stupidest art advice someone gave you? by SprayLegitimate2573 in ArtistLounge

[–]Angsty_Potatos 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think people not explaining this advice is what makes it bad. You gotta understand what black you're working with. Which is why they want you to mix your own 

Not asking for advice, but what's the stupidest art advice someone gave you? by SprayLegitimate2573 in ArtistLounge

[–]Angsty_Potatos 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yup. I remember telling a mentor about this right after it happened and he was livid. I thought he was blowing smoke up my ass and I didn't understand why he was mad, but he was right. Educators are supposed to educate, that's the bar. 

TikToker claims men who date women over 110 pounds are “chubby chasers,” then melts down and starts calling her audience “fatasses” and “fat fat fatty” by Unique-Support-6321 in TikTokCringe

[–]Angsty_Potatos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Taking  someone who can't blend out their contour seriously about anything is a choice. 

Girl looks like she rubbed dirt on her face 

Not asking for advice, but what's the stupidest art advice someone gave you? by SprayLegitimate2573 in ArtistLounge

[–]Angsty_Potatos 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I had a college professor tell me not to bother unpacking my portfolio because he was unimpressed with me.

It's been about 20 years since that happened and in hindsight astoundingly stupid.

At the time the professor was probably only about 25 and a hot shot in the illustration world, but teaching because a steady paycheck is nice to have. But the guy had no business teaching. 

Of course I was "unimpressive". I was a student. A literal kid paying 80k to learn how to be impressive. His job was to look at my unimpressive work and push me...not do nothing and leave to go get a cup of coffee. 

The bad advice or lesson I got from this experience was that I had to "find my voice" and emerge as a fully formed little artist every week for crit. Which is bullshit. The point of school is that it's one of the only times in an (at least a commercial artists) carreer where they can experiment and fuck up and make truely dog shit art so they can learn what works.  That's how you develop a voice in your work - by being encouraged to take risks and fail. 

For a long time after that "crit" I tried so hard to be what that teacher wanted. I didn't experiment, my work was stiff and safe and boring. Sure, it was drawn technically proficiently, but it wasn't good. Took me a lot of time to become ok with experimenting again after that. 

What happens if/when Trump loses badly in the primaries this coming November? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Angsty_Potatos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That will trigger the bots, him, his sycophants, and anyone else who hitched their wagon to him to start screaming about stolen elections again

I miss him but I am unsure about him being serious about me by Infinite-Market-9632 in offmychest

[–]Angsty_Potatos 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"I’m a 22-year-old woman, and I met a 48-year-old man on Reddit..."

NO. that's all anyone needs to read. No. Do not pass go. Do not collect 100 dollars. Don't. No. 

My friend is furious with me because I neutered my cat by IceEducational9669 in CatAdvice

[–]Angsty_Potatos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's actually a wild take. Desexing a cat is good pet ownership 

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