justlookingfordragon
@justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world
Recently migrated over from reddit. I plan to eventually re-upload all of my content here, so people get access to the guides again.
My youtube channel will stay as it is.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 months ago:
Just to add another factor to the ongoing discussion: artistic talent isn’t uniform and never was. Just because only/mostly “immature” art survived from a certain century of human history, doesn’t mean that there literally was no realistic art present at the time. Since you mentioned the statues already…
These are from the same era (around 200 BC), but as you may have guessed, made by different artists =P The statue is called The Dying Gaul by the way.
As for painting examples, I guess the Rothschild Canticles^1 book illustrations represent best what most people nowadays would call medieval art. Not exactly realistic, a little goofy … perspective? Never heard of it. Proportions? Who cares. And who needs shading anyway?! As long as you can still distinguish a human from a cupcake, it’s “eh good enough”.
I guess that was also what you meant by “immature” art, because it is the same art style as those goofy weird pictures of knights fighting giant snails and rabbits riding cattle into battle and the like.[^2]
That book is dated to be around 1500–1520 so it would be easy to assume that people at the start of the 15th century didn’t have a realistic art style yet. But you know what else was made in that same era?
The Mona Lisa (1503–1506).
One dorky meme-esque art style, and one realistic, modest and easy-on-the-eyes art style in the same century, probably even the same decade. But they were used by different artists.
Now you might be thinking that those art styles might have been intended for their respective purpose or something along the lines: that the goody, simple art style was used for nothing but amusing little pictures, and the more realistic style was for “proper” art, because noone in their right mind would spend 100+ hours painting highly detailed nonsense just for sh*ts and giggles, right?
May I introduce you to Joseph Ducreux?[^3]
I guess most of you will have seen that meme by now, but this is a real painting made by a real artist - and it is far from the only one. Ducreux created an entire series of similar self-portraits in … unusual poses and situations.
… so yes, at least that one guy DID indeed spend dozens if not hundreds of hours painting amusing nonsense for his own entertainement. He was, in a way, the victorian era equivalent of a shitposter (and I mean that in a good sense!)
Long story short: one can’t just claim that “they didn’t have X art style in Y century” because the truth is much more facetted than that. It is way more likely that each and every era of human history has had people with insane talent who were able to create art as realistic as possible with whatever tools their lifetime had to offer, and also a bunch of “eh good enough” art or stuff that was deliberately stylized for fun. How we percieve said art today depends mainly on what artworks have survived up until now, and/or how popular the surviving art is. (Everyone and their grandma knows about the Mona Lisa, but how many of y’all knew about the Rothschild Canticles?)
If we don’t know about any realistic art from a certain period of time, it doesn’t automatically mean that there was no realistic art. It may have been lost, forgotten or it exists but it’s just not popular enough to be well-known.
[^2]: imgur.com/gallery/medieval-marginalia-dump-bKY5h just some delightfully awkward examples [^3]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ducreux
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- Comment on How to make two groups of fanboys twitch simultaneously. 1 year ago:
Star Wreck: Deep Space Nein.
- Comment on That escalated quickly 😬 1 year ago:
Exactly this worked best for me back in the day ;) I’m German and while we have some mandatory English classes, they’re …well … not good. Blunt, boring, 1:1 translations of German sentences, and at least the teacher I had first also had a VERY thick German accent, pronouncing stuff WAY too harsh (“Zis is nott how yoo shoold zound when zpeeking inglish for forks zake!”) so other than learning a few basics, the lessons weren’t at all useful to me.
…but I’ve been an avid fan of the Zelda franchise even back then so I decided to play Ocarina of Time in English after a first German playthrough. Barely understood the dialogue at first, started to recognize certain keywords after a few days, and once I was halfway through the game my brain kinda switched to “English mode” and I actually learned words and grammar in a natural way instead of trying to force myself to understand what the hell a “singular past tense adverb” is.
Long story short, school tried to teach me how to translate German thoughts into English sentences before speaking them out loud. Games, movies, books and music taught me to THINK in English so I wouldn’t need to translate my thoughts first.
The same way I’m currently trying to learn Spanish by the way, which already works way better than any classes ever did.
- Comment on These just go out with the other recycling, right? 1 year ago:
In Germany, pretty much every supermarket has 2 special bins near the entrance, one for lightbulbs and one for batteries. Maybe there’s something similar in your area?
Otherwise I’d check with shops or hardware stores that sell these and/or a local electrician how they dispose of these and whether they’d be willing to take yours as well.
- Comment on Accessible data 1 year ago:
How old is that data?! France and Ireland should absolutely be red as of now. And don’t get me started on Germany. Can someone please update this horribly outdated map to 2024?
- Comment on The word Unicorn is uni-corn, as in one corn(horn). That means we could also use bicorn, tricorn, etc. 1 year ago:
Triceratops already means “Three-Horned Face” =P It’s just Greek instead of Latin.
- Comment on A day late and a DaSpu' short 1 year ago:
… he sleeps all night and he works all day … ♪
(Thanks, now I have that dumb lumberjack song stuck in my head, lol)
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- Comment on Chairs for the lazy 1 year ago:
Imagine being cleaning staff in that office. You accidentally drop something during your night shift. All the chairs start driving themselves across the room at 4 AM while you’re completely alone in the building.
“Heart attack” would be an understatement for the reaction I’d have.
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- Comment on Coincidence?! 1 year ago:
It’s astounding that one can learn really cool and interesting stuff by posting random nonsense to the shitpost community, lol. Thanks for the link! That was indeed new to me ;)
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- Comment on Pasta 1 year ago:
I think we broke the comment section, lol.
- Comment on Pasta 1 year ago:
…hot dang. Ok, you win this round ^^ now please excuse me while I continue to binge that guy’s entire musical history. Never heard of him before, but that vocal range! Oh my ~♪
Thank you for introducing me to that artist, and thank you for the highly entertaining banter as well ;)
- Comment on Pasta 1 year ago:
That’s Chandler Bing. You’re thinking of a large, decorative hanging light with branches for several light bulbs (or candles if you’re feeling fancy)
- Comment on Pasta 1 year ago:
That’s Bunga Bunga. You’re thinking of Riley’s imaginary friend from Inside Out.
- Comment on Pasta 1 year ago:
That’s a burrito. You’re thinking of a small, single-story house.
- Comment on Pasta 1 year ago:
That’s Borat. You’re thinking of the holes wild rabbits live in.
- Comment on Pasta 1 year ago:
That’s the Autobahn. You’re thinking of the northern lights.
- Comment on Pasta 1 year ago:
That’s an autobiography. You’re thinking of a state or society governed by one person with absolute power.
- Comment on Pasta 1 year ago:
That’s photosynthesis. You’re thinking of the art of taking pictures with a camera.
- Comment on Pasta 1 year ago:
Those are paratroopers. You’re thinking of the inability to move.
