Ever heard of Cubism Odyshape? Cubisms goal was to make things appear completely different.

It basically means the artist draws whatever they feel at that moment, like this..
http://kailahsearlescott.files.wordp...emoiselles.jpg
know what it is? Five naked prostitutes. With some white sheets draped around.

this was basically a post to show not all art has to be a "super-realist" style, anything can be called art, if it was productive & creative! :D

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1796/qededit1rs.jpg
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8821/666edit1rs.jpg

They're awesome. They looks like animations or something :D

Hey Capt, when I finish my novella what would be a reasonable price for you to draw the cover for the book?

thanks kayleigh!

i will pm you.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1796/qededit1rs.jpg

a slight influence by the Futurism mouvement with a hint of "je ne sais quoi".
... Scratch that, it's just "Grand".

Here's my first attempt at a more professional digital art medium. Bought a program today called ArtRage because of it's simplicity for beginners to the wondrous world of digital art. Seeing as how I can't be arsed to finish my scrapbook I figured this might fill my artistic desire on a medium I'm more comfortable with and is more forgiving to errors.

Without further ado, I present to you

Happy Pretty Field

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs50/i/20...tangrypoet.jpg

Manny Calavera - Grim Fandango

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs51/i/20...tangrypoet.jpg


Of course I'm open to all positive suggestions from people who are familiar with digital art media.

^ I love the second one, it's great! Though I don't really know much about digital art apart from digital photography. The program you have sounds pretty cool, though.

Best 25 bucks I've spent... unless you count that bottle of Jim Beam.

On the subject of photographic art, I would this really amazing:

National Geographic's International Photography Contest 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com

^ Those are some nice pictures. Especially the first one, that's awesome.

a lot of those made me want to cry. thx for sharing.

Speaking of amazing photographs, here's one I stumbled across while researching dust devils on wikipedia

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...vil_Trails.jpg

It's currently my desktop image and is a picture of dust devil trails on Mars' surface.

it kind of looks like a tatooed butt to me

Ditto. The picture of the boy was particularly amazing, for such a simple shot.

yeah, ohio really is that boring. great pictures though, I loved the one of the guy standing on the elephant tusks.

The pictures from that site were amazing wern't they?
I found the Seagulls one a little scary.

^
I find your avatar scary.

That picture with the green fireflies was just mesmerizing, I could stare it for hours. How do you take pictures like that? Doesn't it have to do with the shutter speed?

It says under it, that it was an hour of firefly activity. So the set the shutter speed to 1 hour. It's usually the case for shooting stars or lighting pictures.
A lot of really good pictures, the one with the wave is great.

I never done these, a girl I grew up with named Robyn did. She's an immence artist, and I really wanted to show you all some of her stuff.

a self portrait.
http://file050a.bebo.com/1/original/...935688470o.jpg

she needed a step ladder cause shes really small! in our advanced higher art room.
http://file052a.bebo.com/19/original...935688610o.jpg

her theme was the growth and decay of the human body, hence the photo of her when she was a baby, a current photo, and a photo of a corpse, which isnt her surprisingly!
http://file052a.bebo.com/21/original...935688684o.jpg

egg timer, representing life, gettit?
http://file052a.bebo.com/13/original...935688719o.jpg

The one on the wall in the art room of her currently and as a baby is unreal. I think self portraits would be such a tough thing to do.

I tryed one once, never again :laughing: I found them really difficult, maybe it just depends on your style of drawing and such, shes a perfectionist, whereas I'm not :)

I kind of made one when I was 12, well usually all the portraits I draw have by accident my eyes.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...saleb/Me12.jpg

and now just having some fun with my face, 5 years later:

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...saleb/Me17.jpg

I don't think you can know if these drawings look like me or not, still some of my drawings.

I really like the bottom one. Obviously ive seen it a number of times before but i cant stop looking at it.

NumberNineDream, those are great! You are really talented. Love them!

I love the red one. It's just so... So... I dunno. It really draws me in though. :)

^^ Thats pretty much what i meant too. Whenever i look at it i find myself looking at it for at least a good minute or so.

Stop looking at my face weirdos!

lol thanks on the feedback, it is one of my favorite drawings, and the one I less worked on. I was actually trying to do a realistic self-portrait, but then I got tired of it after 5 minutes. Weirdly enough it still suggested my portrait.

I was trying to copy this thing. Excuse the very bad quality, but I don't have my cam at the moment. (at least you'll have some kind of idea)

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...30388_4615.png

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs031...._6188139_n.jpg
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs011...._2325127_n.jpg
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._5877278_n.jpg


bored drawings i do

I love the last one. The hands are so cool. :)

kk this portrait took FOREVER. by far the longest I've ever worked on any one piece of art. I think it turned out ok, but i made myself look a lot younger than i really do...oh well.
It's called "I always dance in the kitchen" and is done in Graphite, Chalk Pastels, and PrismaColor blended with lighter fluid.

^ That's really good, you're quite talented m'dear! I like it.

I draw cartoons traditionally and digitally, but I'm not very good.

^I like the third one a lot.

I dig the 4th one. "Let me out" Pretty basic, but I really like it.

Just incase my family runs out of toilet roll :D kidding. Sorry for my ****ty photography skills.
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/v...6022010072.jpg
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/v...6022010073.jpg

^ You did those? That's amazing!

Much better than what you had few days ago. I'm glad you're back to your drawings :thumb:

I once did an internship in Washington DC. I was there for a summer, and I visited the National Museum of Art. My brother is has a degree in Art, and had never been. I decided to write him up a summary of what I saw in the Renaissance area.

"The first paintings they talk about so much were about the 1300's in Italy. Some rich guy would get an artist to paint a dark depressing picture of him on a canvas about 12" X12", and put some angels on it. Damn the dark ages!

In the 14 and 1500's, the paintings got larger and more ridiculous. They would make the artist paint them into famous settings like the last supper, and they used light as well as dark colors, and dramatic reds, etc, on larger canvasses. These paintings were about 18" X24". Then they also started elaborate graffiti everywhere, including on the walls and ceilings of churchs.

Then, in the 15 and 1600's, the English realized they were eating a bunch of boiled meat and weeds with no taste, while the Italians were living it up! But they were more afraid to have outright graffiti, so they started painting moderately lighted pictured of fruit. An apple. Some bananas and a tea pot. At least they were decent sized. Since England is so small, I think they wanted to have bigger paintings than the Itailians. Maybe they had canvas envy.

Not to be left out, the Dutch and Germans in the 1600's started painting very dark and depressing pictures of bad weather, boats in bad weather, and general misery. If the Itailians can have fun, so can we! But we're tough and determined, so we will be miserable while we do it.

After that, they apparently started having art classes, so everybody could paint. No longer would rich guys paint some loafer to hang around banging his wife and/or his brother, but pretending to be busy while the rich guy was home. "Hurry up, he's almost home!"
"Uh, here, I painted you some canteloupes"

Really with the advent of art classes to end the Rennaissance, painting quality really went down though. Some Mexican painters didn't even bother to put eyes on their subjects."

My brother hated that review.

Thank you :D. The first one took me a lifetime to do. I like it though. Certainly the best expressive piece of art I've done.