It would be cool if there was a community dedicated to helping people get better at making visual art, e.g. art education, learning, advice requests, feedback, etc.
Is there anything like this already? I had a search around and couldn’t see anything much. There is !arttutorials@lemmy.world, but it’s fairly dead, and doesn’t cover lots of the things above.
If there isn’t already something like that, would people be keen for it?
I post daily how-tos and tutorials for different crafts on !Art_Alchemist_Guild@lemmy.today
It’s for sharing art, tools, resources and supplies, too. This summer has a low key leatherworking challenge where I’ve been posting leather projects and instructions. I’m going to shift to painting and drawing for September/Inktober.
Cool! Subscribed. But I think that comm has a specific tone to it, so perhaps not as general as I’d want.
It’s mostly me posting, so I’m open to suggestions if there’s something you want to see more of.
Nothing in particular, I was just referring to the “this is a dark place” thing in the side-bar. I think that excludes a fair bit of art (which is fine, to be clear)
It does have a vibe, but that full quote is meant to be more of a humorous aside than a guide. The posts are a better gage for what belongs, which is almost anything art related.
You had me at the ‘what is the best smelling glue’ post
Subscribed 👍
Subscribed! I saw an origami post, come visit !origami@lemmy.dbzer0.com. You made me realise I wasn’t posting enough tutorials there
Will do, I didn’t know there was an origami com. I’m here for it.
For now it is mainly me posting whatever I fold. I have some games planed for the future when there’s some more activity.
There’s https://lemmy.world/c/DrawingForBeginners for tutorial/ reference material.
I’d be down to contribute to a learning community
Oh, that actually looks like it’d fit most of my needs!
You could just tag your post here asking for feedback. I’ve given feedback to people who’ve asked for it. People are usually very kind and constructive.
Seconding this option. While it’s not necessarily the theme here, it’s one of my most active hobbyist/interest communities. I posted here once and was given some pointers and how to improve the things I called out
If someone sets one up, I’m pretty sure a lot of people would use it. You can cover a bit with the “art share” one, but it’s not really set up for discussion for stuff like “art education, learning, advice requests, feedback, etc”. I think you’ve got a lot of secret art people lurking who’d be happy to give information and advice.
There’s an artist lounge community here, but it’s dead. I’ve thought about trying to revive it, but I have no time. If anyone else does, I’ll definitely participate.
Off lemmy, I can recommend the Art Prof discord.
Which comm? Link?
Not interested in discord for this, I really don’t want to be sucked in to any more walled gardens
The other reply to my comment has it
Cool, I’d not seen that one.
I’m subscribed now. I guess if someone starts asking stuff, someone else will start answering stuff?
The sidebar description does seem to cover more discussion etc that the OP was asking about.
[Edit] also there’s
Thanks for these!
Adding to the comments, most art teaching content would be in video format, because it involves the artist showing us their artistic processes, or timelapse videos showcasing the emergence of ars ex nihilo (art out of nothingness/art from scratch).
And while most of this content format (video) is concentrated at Youtube (which is not Fediverse and also not advisable as a platform for learning things due to all the slop thereby), I guess something can be (hopefully) found throughout the Fediverse.
I myself made a few quick videos showcasing my artistic processes (timelapses) here in this very community, such as the concept of mass drawing (versus contour drawing), the concept of drawing facial complexion solely from intuition (something I coined as “reverse pareidolia”), among other fundamenta behind my artistic creations.
I’m far from a teacher, I’m just a self-taught amateur artist who have been doing art out of spiritual motivations and happens to be quite verbose/prolific. I do these videos in hopes that these could help people like me to learn through my learning (deriving praxis from observation of someone else’s praxis).
This said, I sort of have a similar longing for a community: a community specifically for esoteric/spiritual (left-hand path) art, from 2D drawings and 3D scenes all the way to physical paintings, street art and photography. While I shared and have been sharing some of my esoteric creations here, I feel like my kind of art isn’t exactly appropriate for this community? I dunno…
Make a left-hand path art comm? I wouldn’t have much to add right now, but I’d join.
Make a left-hand path art comm
Oh, yes, I’ve been considering doing this for a while. However, the platform I use (Misskey) to interact with the threadiverse (Lemmy, PieFed, MBin, etc) is not a threadiverse platform; while this specific Misskey fork (Catodon) has been implementing more native support for Lemmy, including creation of communities, this specific feature is still in beta and it’s seemingly meant to be available only to the admins of an instance.
So I’ve been mostly waiting for Catodon’s community creation features to become more stable and then, if community creation remains an admin-only feature, proceeding to self-host a single-user Catodon instance myself, because I like having, through a single platform (“One ring to rule 'em all”), both the threadiverse features and the personal microblogging feed I’m used to use a lot, as well as certain Misskey-native features.
For now, my approach have been using the personal microblogging feed especially for (but definitely not limited to) potentially NSFW content (which, in such case, is mostly psychological horror art, sometimes non-erotic nudity given how my art often involves/revolves around Lilith) and, to a less frequent extent, this Art Share community, in this case limited for SFW content.
