Hi! I’ve been looking to discover new artists a lot lately, which inspired this thread! I think every artist has at least a few pieces that are their favourite. I’ll go with some of mine!
No AI is used in my process, progress pics are here!
Also, are there any pieces of art that you initially weren’t a big fan of when you finished them, but later warmed up to them?
Seaside, OR. 20 March ‘21.
I think this is the best picture I’ve ever captured. The reflection, the somberness, the portent, the symmetricality.
Love how the horizon perfectly lines up like that! The wet sand is almost like a mirror…wow! It also feels somewhat lonely because of the lack of people and the nearly overcast sky.
I do 3D modeling (I hope that counts?). Right now I think my favorite is a a spacecraft I completed not too long ago, but the reality is that each one I produce is a learning experience. I’ve gotten better at making things look detailed, learning how to texture, and so on.
So something like the Caracal Heavy Anti-Air Gun, which is a few years old now, I sometimes look at it and see where I would do much better if I were to try to go back and do it now - but also where I was figuring out how to make things work (e.g., making the stabilizing feet actually work).
I got into 3D art not that long ago and can confirm each one is definitely a learning experience haha. It’s fun!
That’s a pretty detailed model! I like the gun part the most, very cool. The toon outline effect is also a nice touch. Are the tire treads bump maps or are they actually modelled?
This picture of the colloseum:
It took forever to prepare everything. One hour to get there, 40 minutes to wait in the line for the lift which goes all the way up on the roof of the Altare della Patria, and then waiting there for the sundown, again more than one hour, just before they close the roof at 19:15. I was the last person there still taking this picture while the security guard trying to convince me to go down with him.
I’m a real sucker for sunset and twilight, and I’m glad you got to stay up since that’s a really great photo! It’s kind of insane to think that there used to be thousands of people there (even conservative estimates reckon it would seat around 50,000!) almost two thousand years ago…
Seeing it in person, was it how you expected or more?
I’m a performance artist. My favorite act is a sideshow burlesque act inspired by Junji Ito
I make vector arts. Irregularly I draw squids and octopi
Sometimes I make animations. This is my favourite: https://youtu.be/IXMqmM0BrdI
Artist here. I’m on instagram (@artbyflashmob) and Mastodon (@flashmobofone). I’m proud of my reimaginings of popular figures. I’ve also had two portraits of Patrick Mahomes autographed and resold by his foundation, which I’m HUGELY proud of.
I don’t know if I’m the kind of “artist” you’re interested in, but I’ve been making a bunch of silly drawings and posting them lately. Some people seem to enjoy them. I’ve also written a fair amount of music but I generally don’t share that. I used to want to be a game developer and ended up getting good at programming, so-so at music, and basically hated everything I tried to make as far as graphics went.
Recently though, I’ve found it incredibly liberating to allow myself to make “bad” art – to not be too concerned with the quality and just concentrate on having fun trying to express an idea however I can.
This has mostly taken the form of “MS Paint”-like drawings that I’ve posted to [email protected] (and occasionally other communities). Usually I make them with KolourPaint. Sometimes I also use the GIMP or my own custom software.
I think my own overall personal favorite, so far, is “Sock Trek”. I posted it back in 2023 from kbin (RIP) to Otter’s sockpuppetsociety community, I think:
Probably the best of my recent silly drawings in terms of technique is this one in response to “An expressive window suffering from / enjoying the weather”:
The most popular (based on upvotes) seems to be my response to “E.T. (the alien) eating an unreasonable quantity of free samples at costco”:
I’ve occasionally made some other things that might be interesting to look at, like this hypnotic color spiral animation (first 90 seconds) from a program I wrote to experiment with graphics techniques a few years ago – https://files.catbox.moe/8y6d0n.mp4 – and a number of custom composites from anime screenshots.
Haha I love the sock characters! At first I thought they were worms on a string. They’re cute! You mention wanting to get into game development, which is cool! Got a particular genre or engine that you want to go for?
Three of my favorites from each classic category…
Animal photography:
Landscape/sky photography:
Chalk drawings, my favorite medium (aside from stop-motion/claymation):
Regular drawings:
Memes:
