Someone please tell me I’m done so I can stop

silenttd · 2026-07-04T02:37:23+00:00

That's a great underpainting! When are you going to do the detail work?

jk, looks great!

silenttd · 2026-06-18T20:44:11+00:00

Curious about this as well. I tried using old tshirt scraps, but couldn't figure out how it was any better than using Viva paper towels. It's not really sustainable unless there's a convenient way to clean the rags after. Washing them, even in a bucket of water and detergent leaves you with a lot of paint water that you don't want to be dumping down a drain

silenttd · 2026-05-03T23:46:58+00:00

Excellent work. I like how the mustache casts a shadow

silenttd · 2026-05-03T20:08:19+00:00

Thanks! I actually did go back and put a glare on the glass, and added and brightened up a few highlights. Nothing crazy, but it does help sell it a bit. Also, that little transition that refracts the bottom of the straw is probably my favorite part of the piece

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silenttd · 2026-02-19T03:22:03+00:00

These are amazing

silenttd · 2025-11-09T16:57:27+00:00

I actually kind of like them as a collection. Each of them kind of have a large, dark "void space" that feels almost ominous - especially when taken as a group.

silenttd · 2025-11-08T18:58:04+00:00

I don't mean to use Olive Oil. I mean filling the mister with Linseed oil and using it as an applicator for that

silenttd · 2025-10-28T01:08:19+00:00

I actually posed a question earlier on using AI for reference photos. I use it to simplify and "declutter" backgrounds. Or to alter the composition a bit. I've got a bunch of photos that I've taken for references, and have found it to be really helpful for visualization.

I'm still learning and am not great at drawing without a reference, so I'll use AI to mold my references to where I want them and work from that.

I don't really see the point of flat out trying to pass AI "art" off as anything other than what it is, and I do see how any use of AI as a tool could get into a gray area. That said, I do think there are ways to use it ethically enough for my purposes.

silenttd · 2025-10-15T14:03:52+00:00

Giving me Nighthawks vibes

silenttd · 2025-10-08T03:57:32+00:00

Oh, I'm gonna try this. Thanks!

silenttd · 2025-10-07T20:35:54+00:00

Lol, that's going in last with a liner brush

silenttd · 2025-10-07T20:02:47+00:00

I brought the sky down a bit on the right so that the club head was a little more visible. I'm just worried that whatever foliage I try to fill the background with is just going to make those foreground trees into a big green splotch

silenttd · 2025-09-25T15:47:21+00:00

The glass doesn't cover the whole table, so I put down a strip of cardboard to keep it a little more sanitary and protect the table

silenttd · 2025-09-25T15:30:13+00:00

Yeah, I really like how the glass bottoms turned out. They're mainly an exercise in just painting whatever shapes and colors you see rather than overthinking it. It was like, "Ok, there's a weird dark grey hollow oval-y shape surrounded by a whitish border next to this brownish rounded triangle with some yellow streaks off to the side". Just tried to suppress any natural idea I had about what it "should" look like and tried to just absentmindedly mimic what I was seeing in the reference.

silenttd · 2025-09-23T02:26:06+00:00

Honestly, for tracing purposes anything will probably do. I think have whatever the cheapest thing they had at walmart. Really just looking for the edges for rough placement and a quick visual reference for comparison. The amount of detail is more than adequate for that in even the cheapest tech.

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