• Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    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.

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf
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      3 hours ago

      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.

      Plus, here’s an acrylic painting of a mouse building a snowman at night for a bonus pic, and yeah, I know the snow and mouse are supposed to be white, but I gave that whole scene a pink/purple tint for the sake of cuteness.

      Also, I very, very much have a preference for traditional media over digital tools mainly because traditional media have always been fun for me to play with, painting in particular I tend to get lost in for hours at a time.

      Finally, I’m adding a wax crayon drawing to this post because why not, but here’s a wax crayon drawing of Pichu and Dedenne building a snowman, and I’ll stop here before this post gets too spammy. And just like with the mouse painting above, I gave this scene a pink/purple tint because that’s cute, also, wax crayons are one of my fave drawing media currently alongside oil pastels and chalk in any order.