A drawing of the brilliant @chickpeapole@mastodon.social, for whom gravity is optional.

Acrylic on paper.

Have a nice weekend everyone, but watch out for the goose!

Quick oil study.

My car has been out of commission since June last year. It's finally back up and running and I can't wait to put a ridiculous amount of miles on him!

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mmh7bjct5s2v

A fallen tree in a non-existent existence

This is my gnostic-nihilist extrapolation of the classic, philosophical "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?". It turns out, there was never a forest nor a tree to begin with. As René Magritte would say, "ceci n'est pas une arbre", both ontologically and in semiotics, as my drawing is just a signifier from a non-existent signified.

Alt-text:

A four-panel comic.

The first panel depicts a fallen tree surrounded by other trees alongside the text "A tree fell amidst the woods, but there was no one nearby to hear or see it falling".

The second panel is the same scene, but now the surrounding trees have a translucent, wireframe appearance that of a computer simulation. The text is "and the nearby trees weren't actually there: these were merely hallucinations from the tree's near-death experience".

In the third panel, the surrounding trees vanished completely while it's the ground being depicted with the translucent, wireframe appearance. The text is "and so was the ground, there was no ground, no dirt, no land, no biome".

In the fourth panel, the ground is gone, with the tree hovering in the middle of a purple void, the fallen tree is depicted with the translucent, wireframe appearance, and there are now three texts. The first two texts, as paragraphs above the fallen tree, says "The tree doesn't exist. There's no tree. / It's fallen since the beginning of its non-existence (never been an «it»)”. A third text, appearing as a red-colored speech inside a black and red speech balloon at the bottom right corner, is meant to break the fourth wall as it's spoken by an entity (for those who are familiar with my earlier drawings, the entity is Death Herself) addressing the viewer (us) as "wandering tree" (a twisted nod at the biblical verse Mark 8:24), says "Oh, hey, wandering tree! I was expecting ye, hon. Time to leave this silly Samsāra ye've been put in by Yaldabaoth".

#ArsRitualisTemplii #digitaldrawing #darkart #occultart #philosophy

@artshare@lemmy.world

Acrylic on paper.

Theme was #chalice palette was n-brulee

#art, #fediart, #mastoart, #vectorArt, #lospec, #lospecdailies

Mouse doodle

I've decided to put some effort into learning how to draw. I am enamored with the idea of painting with light, so I got me a black notebook and white gel pens. This is a doodle I made to try the kit out.
@artshare #penandink #BlackAndWhite

My mom took the source photo. This is one of her favorite trees to photograph, pretty sure I have a dozen photos of it at different times of day and year. I read that a person in a landscape grounds us in the scene. So I added one.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mmekeca32c24

One of these happens to be my name...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47158670

The Chinese of this solar term (小滿) means "little full". It refers to rice crops starting to bear rice.

I record timelapse now!

• YouTube: https://youtu.be/ojrBrCazLgY
• PeerTube: https://peertube.wtf/w/bpcS8SXZiaRWMUCwEnwD7c

8/24 Solar Terms

Acrylic on paper.

Timelapse: https://mastodon.social/@BallShapedMan/116603898193223126

Well, not necessarily a pendant, it could definitely work as earrings too, but I only made one.

Made of brass, cut with a saw as usual, and a rivet done with a hammered nail to the horizontal bar movable.

Here the scale (pun intended) shows a bit more:

Working on this new painting. Not really sure if it's done yet.

These were made on Android using PixaPencil, and Termux (git, imagemagick), plus a little bit of Android krita.

Find them now (and further updates) on https://codeberg.org/iloveena/pink-kube

Use them on matrix by joining this room #the-sticker-box:chat.blahaj.zone

We'll maintain and improve as we learn more about pixelart, as well as adding new ones.

Licensed under CC BY NC SA! Meaning you can download and use these on your favorite platforms! As long as you credit the artist(s) in this case a link to the repo and/or our fedi handle @reilyh@blahaj.zone would be appreciated!

#art, #cute, #sticker, #emoji, #pixelart, #ccbyncsa

This one was not easy. It is made of an aluminium plate under a brass plate, attached together by handmade rivets (tiny nails, that you hammer down on the pointy side at the back to flatten it and clamp the two plates together).

The big difficulty of this is the rivets, that are already not very easy (for me) to do, but here I had to shape them after bending the curve of the two metal plates. Why? Because if you attach them together, then try to bend them, the outer plate has a flatter curve than the inner one, which misaligns the holes of the rivets. And in the process, starts tearing them and causing damage and other problems.

However, hammering down a tiny nail, while having to make sure that the hammering is done in the proper way, on a non-flat surface, feels a little bit like trying to kill a mosquito with a hammer: it doesn't feel right, and you know that it'll probably end in a disaster.

At least, the little problems that appeared in the process are not too visible, but yeah, I'm not so sure I would want to make this one again :')

Based on my scrap metal parts from forming cursive writing names out of coat hangers.

Reference for sake of scrap material..

https://lemmy.world/post/45941131

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/35608430

Like the game telephone but with drawings, you play rounds where you either describe a drawing or draw a description and see where it leads

Oil pastel on paper.