greermahoney ☥ @greermahoney@octodon.social

@shivvi Thank you! I'll tell her you said so. (Although, tbh, she has a big enough head. She probably doesn't need the praise. :-P )

Floofy cat photo, anyone?

@drjeats Oh, I just watched the first couple eps this week. Liking it.

@miramarco I also like that you say craft and art aren't opposites, because I often hear them as such. I think there's much more overlap than some people say.

@miramarco Absolutely agree on conceit. I don't shy away from it.

And good advice to hear on the haters. When they rant about copying, I think back on the great masters who spent decades "just" copying others in training, and I wonder why the copy hate. It's hella good practice.

@miramarco I'm not even sure I can successfully "remix." For example, I knit, and have to follow a pattern. I've been knitting for *decades,* and even switching the yarn is really risky for me. It will usually fail.
In art, I just can't "see" something different than already exists, so creating something different is just trial and error, and consequently, a lot more error than I'd like.
Studying others who have done so is a good place to start, though. I'll check them out! Thanks!

Any gin drinkers on? Just tried this one and it's delish.

@nice Good ideas. I've done negative space, but really, not near enough.

@nice Yeah, I agree that's a potential upside. I don't yet have the skill to make things realistic. But I do map very quickly and fairly accurately​, and I think that's because of the aphantasia. I have a hard time with "seeing" shapes, though. I'm very much "line, line, another line" - as opposed to shape and value.

#art So my questions are:

1) Is this lesser art? Is drawing from reference more skill than art? More craft than art?
2) Tumblr HATES people like me. They accuse me of tracing or copying. (I never trace. It's all copied manually.) They say I'm stealing from others who actually created real art. Thoughts? (I'm not making money, not selling any. My art just existing is an insult/crime.) Thoughts?

*rote experience

Hey world. Anyone wanna have a conversion about #art? Cos I do. First of all, I'm learning to draw. I'm a couple years in, and still fairly terrible, but that's ok. I like the process. Second, I have aphantasia, or compete lack of a mind's eye. So every single thing I draw must either be from reference or pure rite experience (I.e. I've drawn 100 eyes, My hand now knows how to make an eye.) So basically, I have absolutely no way to drow from imagination.

@laurenl Oh! Oh! I wanna be one, too!!

#Legion - A series that if you sped up all the slo-mo to normal time, would be 4 episodes.

@eridius Ah, that might be it.

@eridius Oh, I didn't realize you only see it once. I'm pretty sure I've seen multiple from the same bot, but maybe I'm confused.

@eridius @ashkitten@toot.cat Well, I don't want to join under a bunch of different accounts/servers, and keep switching back and forth, but I do want to see what's going on outside my server. So far, I like the federated feed. I'm just muting the bots.

@Qantumentangled Ohhh. Hmm. I had no idea.

@Euphoria Supergreen!!! Bzzt!

@Qantumentangled Wait. What *is* their purpose??