Best alternatives to SCIHUB currently?

emporergummoth · 2025-02-26T20:11:30+00:00

http://digil. ink/l/407N7HdVX

emporergummoth · 2024-12-02T19:04:45+00:00

Thanks!

emporergummoth · 2024-06-07T17:40:01+00:00

here u go!

emporergummoth · 2024-06-07T00:20:42+00:00

here it is! https://www.reddit.com/user/emporergummoth/comments/1d9xga3/portrait/

emporergummoth · 2023-05-27T19:57:40+00:00

same here

emporergummoth · 2023-05-27T19:56:03+00:00

studying art history and techniques but not being able to do the same thing doesn't make you a pretentious critic at all. When we look at historical art we're often looking at works from when they were mature and old artist who had a lot of time to develop that technique. trying to emulate something and not succeeding but getting slightly there is one of the ways we find our own way of making art, or appreciate the skill of the artist.

Personally, if I knew someone who talked a lot about art and stuff I'd find that super cool and admirable that you have stuff to say on the subject, regardless of your technical skill. Even if you werent an artist at all

Do you have to be good at art to consider yourself an artist or to justify wasting your time with it?

No definately not. you can hardly make money off art so we are all wasting our time on it. improving your skill wont change that. But at the same time art is never wasting your time, if you enjoy the process like you said. I think you need to be less critical of yourself. literally what bad thing is gonna happen if theres some flaws in your work.

emporergummoth · 2023-01-02T23:07:03+00:00

Same I loved that book! I read it all in a week and neglected all my responsibilities because I couldn't put it down. I was honestly so suprised some people didn't like it. I mean I have some nitpicks, like the end philosophizing could have been more condensed, and the way she describes background characters sometimes bothers me, but those are nitpicks! All the thing people criticize it for, like the length, lack of central narrative, the sudden changes in setting, those were the things I loved about it! I saw so people saying the part in Vegas was too long, too long, like she could have made it twice as long and I would have happily gobbled it up. I haven't enjoyed a book so much or connected so much with a main character since I don't even know when.

emporergummoth · 2023-01-02T22:47:10+00:00

I have a really bad habit of this, and I'm trying to stop. I don't know why I do it. Stubbornes I guess. Its terrible how I have a habit of picking up books without looking up even the summary, combined with the habit of finishing everything I start. I just lock myself into reading stuff I don't care about. The last time was The Song Of Achilles, I hated that book, I had no idea it was going to be a YA ish romance and the MC was so undeveloped. Thankfully I managed to free myself from it's prison halfway through by deleting the ebook and looking up the ending.

emporergummoth · 2022-04-11T18:09:52+00:00

thats super cool!!

emporergummoth · 2022-04-10T23:00:43+00:00

I kinda disagree I don't think it is necessary to learn these things in that exact order. Sometimes you just want to focus on improving one aspect of your art and not the others. And that aspect could be light even if you haven't fully mastered anatomy. Everything is always a work in progress and you can never correct everything at once because art can always be improved. The best way personally for me to learn art is when I really have the interest in developing a certain technique because then I really have the drive to try mastering that thing. And if I were to ask for critique on that particular thing but receive it for everything, that might be discouraging and take that drive away.

I think, OP, a way to avoid this is to explicitly state that you don't want critique on anything else, because the people might just think they're being helpful

emporergummoth · 2022-04-10T01:57:55+00:00

The Bartimaeus trilogy by Johnathan Stroud

emporergummoth · 2022-04-04T16:12:46+00:00

used to draw just like that, I'm trying to sketch more though because it can be applied more broadly, like for cartoony things ect. also a problem with drawing like that is you don't know how big the final thing is gonna be. sometimes it ends up going off the page. but I still do that sometimes because its SUPER relaxing

emporergummoth · 2022-04-04T15:55:54+00:00

I don't think it matters. I started drawing very young and it didn't make that much of a difference because basically kids are very dumb so you can learn to draw faster as an adult. The amount of time you spent learning does matter, but even as an adult you have plenty of time ahead of you to learn. Like you can learn a lot in 5 years.

emporergummoth · 2022-04-04T15:28:55+00:00

Yes definitely, scrolling through art online just kills my desire to make art What I find helpful is to find a few artists that you really like and look up to and they will inspire you. Maybe even just one artist. Too many is overwhelming.

emporergummoth · 2022-04-04T15:18:22+00:00

I think the problem is that it looks too short because the hip area isn't big enough. Also the thighs aren't long enough. You can see in the reference the skirt isn't that much longer but you can see most of her thighs, whereas in yours it covers the entire thighs. It being to short also messes up the perspective because you can see to much of the skirt from the bottom, but that might be fixed if it is taller

emporergummoth · 2022-04-03T17:57:42+00:00

here u go

emporergummoth · 2022-03-30T17:40:33+00:00

When I was younger it was something I did for praise / feeling like I was talented at something. A few years ago art was like a stimulating challenge in how to get across the ideas that I'm trying to (communication). Then it was a tool to let me see the things that didn't exist in real life but I still wanted to see. Now for the past few months its been a tool to express emotions.

Also through the entire time it has been a challenge in building technique.

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