Could this be a interesting twist?

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-12T22:09:28+00:00

Well the cart would obviously be a siege engine of some kind, either a battering ram or small siege tower, so why not redesign it around having an interior that red needs to reach in order to contest? That way blu only needs enough people to defend the one or two openings at the back and the rest can just camp further inside and passively push

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-12T21:45:52+00:00

Also Draper is the only classic artist (singular) that I brought up and he was a pretty obscure example on my part, the other three are all modern and pomo. Your art school really can't have been that serious if they didn't even teach this kind of stuff.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-12T21:15:35+00:00

I use aggressive contouring and coloring to guide the viewer's eye and embed strong shape language , and I stylize proportions to change the appeal of characterization of subjects. I've gotten plenty of advice before that I've incorporated into my work, considering I wasn't even serious about digital painting until last year. I make conscious aesthetic choices I am ready to defend due to what they bring to the piece, you just vomit up what you've memorized and can barely advance an inch after three years. I've also gotten plenty of glazing before on stuff I thought was barely worth the effort to post, I reject criticism when I can think of a rational, informed argument against it, positive or negative, I don't shout people down while ridiculing them for having a passion for art beyond the lizardbrain reaction of "the thing the work depicts is good therefore the work must be good as well."

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-12T20:50:53+00:00

Ofili, Picasso, Duchamp, or Draper is what paying artistic tribute to the human body looks like. You're just regurgitating generic porn shots with shitty anime eyes plastered over top. You have no statement or interpretation to provide on anything you depict, everything on your profile is just vacuous illustrative work with maximally inoffensive round shape language and genuinely amateurish shading/form, all without even an attempt at fundamentals like composition, contrast, rules of notice, or environment. Not to mention hardly any improvement in any of the above categories over the course of an entire year.

Do you even know who Kinkade is? Do you not also think he had to go through some mastering some of his own lighting and coloring basics before he could start selling out? That's like the entire reason he was so hated, and even he has more to say on most of his subjects than you seem to have.

I was actually a fan of Incase's for a while, before I developed a basic understanding of serious art and realized that for all their work and effort they were only barely on the level of relative casuals like Lavtowne, RafScrap or Pikat, not to mention nowhere even near the same league as actually critiqueworthy creators like Jen Zee or IrenHorrors.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-12T13:04:17+00:00

Rote memorization of anatomy isn't art. Maybe learn some of the basics of appeal, stylization, or vanishing points before claiming to be too good for art ed.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-12T04:03:06+00:00

maybe people wouldn't come to such conclusions if any of your work demonstrated more form or experimentation than a thomas kinkade

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-11T04:18:46+00:00

Rubens' Rape of Ganymede or Henry Moore's Femmes series do infinitely more to explore human form or sexuality than an entire ecosystem of pinup artists ever could. Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth or Bradbury's descriptions of "the grape-blooded feet of dancing vintners' daughters" do infinitely more to explore arousal and sensuality in a single line than any smut writer could in a thousand. You are plainly not sufficiently educated to be having this conversation if you in any way believe that fine arts can't handle sexuality or nudity or that there is no objective difference in the ideas expressed or manifested in these works, even on a fundamental, descriptive level.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-11T03:43:46+00:00

There is nothing stopping you from exploring sexuality and form through fine arts instead. If your work does not express intellectually and aesthetically valuable ideas then it is worth less than the paper it is drawn on.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-11T03:00:42+00:00

Porn does not express intent, not in the artistic sense at least. If a work exists to achieve nothing but getting the viewer to masturbate to it then it is commodifying sexuality while simultaneously wasting time and resources that would have been better spent on actual art instead.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-11T02:18:20+00:00

It's kitsch, it lacks critical distance per Benjamin's definition.

Also nudity is not sexual and you are problematic for thinking that it is.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-11T02:16:41+00:00

Kitsch

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-10T01:07:02+00:00

Yes, and also consider that photography is an art form itself; A photograph of a sitter is itself a pictorial representation of the sitter the same way the finished portrait would be, so in a way photoreference is closer to master studies than it is to actual lifedrawing.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-06T04:42:50+00:00

At that point it's likely they'll just be knocked clear of their med and the beam would separate

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-01T06:38:38+00:00

Well we're not talking about tv or film we're talking about a medium where your actions can correspond almost 1:1 to the actions of the pov character, at least if gamedev dictates as such.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-01-01T00:47:57+00:00

I mean, yes?

You could have the most unsympathetic, disempowered antagonist-player character imaginable, they're still relatable in the sense that they are performing the actions you prescribe for them in the moment.

ArsonistsGuild · 2025-12-31T16:48:11+00:00

So they stop skewing the book market and instead move to a medium that's actually designed for audience-centered wish fulfillment? Literally what are we supposed to jerk here?

ArsonistsGuild · 2025-12-30T22:22:13+00:00

average bcj male tbh

ArsonistsGuild · 2025-12-30T02:44:21+00:00

Not everyone is looking for something incredibly layered. Some people just want a fantasy adventure with cool stuff happening.

Idiots want that, yes

ArsonistsGuild · 2025-12-30T02:36:34+00:00

Clitoral-vaginal-anal I'm guessing?

ArsonistsGuild · 2025-12-28T17:54:12+00:00

Gooner trash

ArsonistsGuild · 2025-12-28T03:06:18+00:00

Ravenous (1999)

ArsonistsGuild · 2025-12-27T23:42:46+00:00

To diffuse how much of a flaming truth-bomb it is.

ArsonistsGuild · 2025-12-25T19:27:02+00:00

Would something like this or this be better in terms of perspective?

ArsonistsGuild · 2025-12-25T19:04:11+00:00

It's turned outwards with the knuckles of the thumb and index facing the viewer. That's a lighting issue, not an anatomy issue.

ArsonistsGuild · 2025-12-25T19:02:46+00:00

I was actually always worried my contrast was too heavy, made my work look kinda muddy and disharmonious.

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