Man, I suuuuck at drawing and painting. But (up until the last couple weeks I guess) I’ve been making and posting my shitty ass, MS Paintesque paintings and collages. Why?
Because you and I are humans and creative expression is our fucking right.
Because you don’t get better at anything unless you keep doing it.
Because people, at least here, prefer a technically shitty artistic effort to a better looking image made by a insanely thirsty software architecture owned by greedy technocrats.
I consider myself to be alright by hobbyist standards, at least, but here’s a watercolor and watercolor crayon painting of a pair of bunnies skating on a frozen pond at night.
And yeah, I kinda love watercolor crayons as a medium, at least in combination with watercolors, and I’m a newbie to watercolor crayons.
These are cute as fuck and I love them! Definitely understand the appeal of traditional media over digital (my stuff’s digital mostly because of accessibility).
In the song, Badger is a monotone repetition, hence being the X axis. When Mushroom comes in, it pitches up, hence being the Y axis. Then, when Snake comes in it fluctuates in pitch with an overall rise.
The humor is clever enough on its own, but the roughly sketched chart with clipart sells the fact that the joke is in the delivery and being sent quickly without being overly refined to the point that it looks polished. The rough rounding of the background makes it even more funny for me, because it was like an attempt was made.
Peak artistic humor by looking like an idea was thrown together to get the joke out as fast as possible. Maybe it was quick, maybe it took time to do for the end result, but the look comes through.
“Uh, should I label the axes «good» and «gooder»? «Good» and «better»? Nah. Oh look the line I drew looks like a snake. Snaaake, snaaaake… wait, there’s a song like this, right? Ah, the badger song! This works: badger, mushroom, snake. Done.”
One quickly learns that drawings don’t have to be detailed or experienced to be appreciated. Sure, it absolutely helps, learn what techniques make art more beautiful so you can punch above your weight, but I’ve received compliments from quick minimal doodles just by having fun with it.
Hell yes. I would rather watch, read and listen to messy outsider art for hours and hours than consume the most polished of artificial material. I don’t care how good it looks, how good it sounds, how good whatever. If it’s not made by a person it means nothing to me.
EDIT: Since I brought it up… John Frusciante’s first couple of albums. So weird yet so good.
I’m a beginner at drawing, but I’d wager people would choose that over AI.
Right?
Yes
Exactly. I’d taoe funny concept crudely drawn stick figures over AI slop
Man, I suuuuck at drawing and painting. But (up until the last couple weeks I guess) I’ve been making and posting my shitty ass, MS Paintesque paintings and collages. Why?
Because you and I are humans and creative expression is our fucking right.
Because you don’t get better at anything unless you keep doing it.
Because people, at least here, prefer a technically shitty artistic effort to a better looking image made by a insanely thirsty software architecture owned by greedy technocrats.
Because fuck it, we can.
Post those drawings homie.
I consider myself to be alright by hobbyist standards, at least, but here’s a watercolor and watercolor crayon painting of a pair of bunnies skating on a frozen pond at night.
And yeah, I kinda love watercolor crayons as a medium, at least in combination with watercolors, and I’m a newbie to watercolor crayons.
These are cute as fuck and I love them! Definitely understand the appeal of traditional media over digital (my stuff’s digital mostly because of accessibility).
Thanks!
This energy is peak! 💯
Uh… Where, exactly?
(Rough drawing of a confused girl.)
I’m not very good… •_•
I’ve got people praising my poorly drawn graphs, of all things. 5min stuff like this:
So yes, odds are they’ll like your drawings better over mass produced AI slop.
you’ve inspired me to make my own pie chart about a parody for badgers lol
Except that honey badger don’t care 🦡
How I read the image:
In the song, Badger is a monotone repetition, hence being the X axis. When Mushroom comes in, it pitches up, hence being the Y axis. Then, when Snake comes in it fluctuates in pitch with an overall rise.
The humor is clever enough on its own, but the roughly sketched chart with clipart sells the fact that the joke is in the delivery and being sent quickly without being overly refined to the point that it looks polished. The rough rounding of the background makes it even more funny for me, because it was like an attempt was made.
Peak artistic humor by looking like an idea was thrown together to get the joke out as fast as possible. Maybe it was quick, maybe it took time to do for the end result, but the look comes through.
Perfection
In the meantime, artist intention be like:
“Uh, should I label the axes «good» and «gooder»? «Good» and «better»? Nah. Oh look the line I drew looks like a snake. Snaaake, snaaaake… wait, there’s a song like this, right? Ah, the badger song! This works: badger, mushroom, snake. Done.”
(Glad you liked my 5min example!)
One quickly learns that drawings don’t have to be detailed or experienced to be appreciated. Sure, it absolutely helps, learn what techniques make art more beautiful so you can punch above your weight, but I’ve received compliments from quick minimal doodles just by having fun with it.
I understood this and now my back hurts!
Mind to eli5? Or link a video?.
I feel like this references an old meme… But I can’t remember what it is.
Edit: badger badger badger badger https://youtu.be/NL6CDFn2i3I
Oh!? Its a snake?
Hell yes. I would rather watch, read and listen to messy outsider art for hours and hours than consume the most polished of artificial material. I don’t care how good it looks, how good it sounds, how good whatever. If it’s not made by a person it means nothing to me.
EDIT: Since I brought it up… John Frusciante’s first couple of albums. So weird yet so good.
I was a beginner until I tried this one weird trick: Draw an orgy scene with Sonichu, Shrek, Goku, and Spider-man.
You are welcome in advance.
In the beginning, people used simple programs like ms paint with a mouse to draw. I use my phone’s editor to draw stuff. Have a cat
Without the ears and with broad paws, it nicely doubles as a sea lion.
I think I just understood what “abstract art” actually means. Holy hell.
I’d rather see absolutely nothing instead of AI