Post still lives you've painted and talk about still lives
>>7853208Digital or trad, it doesn't matter
>>7853209I remember I used to see still lives posted all the time, I think they're a good exercise to do.
>>7853210These ones from me aren't in any particular order
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>>7853214Still lives teach you alot things. They help you learn to paint edges and shadow shapes, colours and values, various texture effects
>>7853215They're also good at helping you improve your brush control and blending
>>7853216You don't have to paint pretty bowls of fruit. I pick things that have interesting shapes, textures, colours. Pic related features two white objects, but their texture and exact hue is slightly different. That's what was interesting about it.
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>>7853221I often pick up random things from thrift/charity shops to paint, like this giant ampersand
>>7853223I painted it a second time under very dark lighting, and a little mirror proped up next to it, just to see if there was anything to learn from that. I don't think there was
>>7853224I did the same thing with this xbox controller.Controllers and shoes are very fun to paint.
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>>7853240This will be the one from me, after this I'm going to post some nice still lives I've seen of other people
>>7853242Tehmeh, who I assume is still famous on /ic/
>>7853243J S SargentThis isn't a still life in the traditional sense, but it's also not a plein air in the traditional sense. I suspect the motivation for the artist to paint this was that it's a subtle but interesting mix of shapes and colours
>>7853246No idea who painted this, but it looks very fun, I should buy a chrome sphere and do this myself
>>7853248Big fan of the brushwork on these two
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>>7853251Another Tehmeh, a portrait and a still life in one. I have a tough time to doing elaborate still lives during the day, the light changes too quickly that from the time you start painting to the time you finish, the lighting has changed completely
>>7853252And finally this one by Algenpfleger.That's all I've got, please share your own.
pathetic, boring and useless images that hardly count as art. Get yourself a camera and leave the creative work for the people who are actually artists
>>7853248That's janaschi. She peaked with the orb image https://www.deviantart.com/janaschi
>>7853248>>7853252These are 100% photobashed.
>>7853273>I hate drawing and painting and never do it but still want to make useless posts on IC>>7853208any specific courses or books you used to get to this level? I'm still learning the basics, pic related, basic exercise to learn to control it better, still figuring out what brushes to use.
>>7854076The closest thing I can think of to that would be the Charles Bargue Drawing Course, which you can find for free online.But really it's a matter of practice, you get better with each still life you do.I did this one today, it's a bit sloppy, but it's all good fun.
>>7854076>>7854084I'll post a couple older still lives
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>>7853253holy shit
>>7854090very cool
yay a thread for me
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>>7854502Really nice stuff anon
>>7853253Does Hannes even do art these days?
I need to get back into art. I bought some oil paints last year and did a couple paintings on cheap canvas pads. I've just picked up a pencil for the first time in ages and what little skill at drawing I had has devolved. I'm trying to start the whole mess up again. I really want to get back to where I was and progress. I'm going to try to draw more when I don't get super long shit at work.
Maybe a dumb question but how do you see your paper if you're supposed to remove every light except the direct light you set up for your still life?
short stilllife i did a few years ago.should really get back to it
>>7855944It is a misunderstanding to think that "still life" = "image drawn with a single isolated light source"There is of course value in doing that, one light source is easier to understand than many. But it is only one kind of exercise, and does not encompass the entirety of still life painting. There are many others things you can learn from still lives.But if you do want to isolate your light source, try something like pic related. Put the lightsource in a box, so outside lights can't intrude. Ideally you want to coat it in something that doesn't bounce the light around the box much, a black felt or cloth would work well.But do know that it is impossible to get a truly direct light source, there will always be bounced light, otherwise all shadows would be 100% black. And light will bounce even around the object itself so even if you painted it in the emptiness of space, it would never be truly direct light only.
>>7853208How many of these a day did you do to get to this level? I wanna add them to my practice regime, but idk if I have the time for it
Amazing thread, my favourite is >>7853216Pretty purple
>>7853249>>7853251beautiful
>>7853208>>7853209>>7853214these are really cool anon
>>7853249>>7853251These are beautiful anon
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I think these digital still lifes are a nearly useless waste of time. Normally you learn how to paint and see light and COLOR-MIXING / aka / color theory. Which is its own entire universe of knowledge. Digitally you're just picking the point on the wheel that matches the color and copying the image. I would imagine that none of this digital practice would carry over into real painting/drawing.
>>7853208what is that software called?
>>7860351You're right this is a retarded thread, op is samefagging because nobody else cares about this shit.
>>7853208These are beautiful anon. I hate doing still lives alone I absolutely need at least one person or a group of people all doing it too or just chatting.
>>7860351Colour mixing is just a mechanical task. Complaining about that is like saying painting with tubes isn't real painting because you didn't mix the powder and binder and grind it into a paste yourself.
>>7860351Retard
>>7860351lol. no. that's the most rudimentary form of a study that beginners fall into. When you're doing a life study you go into with an intention. Copying without thinking might as well be reading a textbook and never drawing. If you understand how light interacts with materials and forms you can translate your color theory between mediums very easily once you understand how to use the medium, this includes color mixing.
Here's a rough one that was a short exercise from a class using items around my room
>>7861002not a still life but 4 more isolated objects from the same day:
>>7853208>thought it was shit from the catalog thumbnail>click>thought it was a pile of chocolates from thread thumbnail>expandnice brush, anon, i can smell the varnish from this image
