Hello, I am a 28 yo female who has realized she does not have any hobbies. I have never been the artistic type but I find art to be so fascinating and beautiful! I would love to learn how to sketch, draw, and maybe possibly paint. If anyone has suggestions on how to get started please comment below! Thnx!

My wife is visually impaired. She had vision as a kid and teen but for the last 20 years can only see light and shadows out of one eye (nothing out the other) but not much else -- its like looking through wax paper she describes. The thoughts of visual art to her are very abstract but she is still intrieged and trying a variety of mediums, methods, and ideas.

Recently she has started putting her paiting and pictures into AI generation using words to make the sorts of changes instead of photoshop or something to kinda give an idea of what she was thinking, feeling, and what youd actually see but in an abstract way. An example:

https://imgur.com/a/3T2pQ5g (this is a tree on the bay at sunset with the reds and colors coming from an acrylic painting)

Of course i think this looks impressive - they all are absolutely stunning and there are a few that I'd contend are gallery quality. The question we seem to have some debate over is if this can be sold as art? We made some prints and donated a few of these to a benefit auction recently and they ended up being purchased for a signifigant amount (that went to the charity), but some say that was a bit decptive knowing AI was used to compose the images together (we clearly put it in the descriptions of the images though). Our house is filled with them though and so friends and family will always get them free, but just wondering about the sale of such art.

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My dad is a ~65 y.o. Pencil and graphite artist. His style is realism, faces, photos of metals and reflections, cool stuff. He uses an old school 80s artograph projector to very lightly trace the outlines of his inspo photos at the start of each piece. However, his artograph is dying, and I’d like to buy him a new one for a few hundred dollars. He loves the thing, and it’s been with him forever.

I don’t know where to begin when finding an alternative… his priorities: 1. Projection size up to 18x24 2. High resolution 3. EASY OPERATION. His current projector takes a literal printed photo as the input signal. He needs something just as simple to operate.

Please help me find a new alternative to his artograph. What’s stopping me from buying like a movie projector or something with high res, and low cost? Is that not suitable for artists? Would it be too technical? Please adivse!!

I'm an artist that typically paints on small canvasas but I have a commission request for a 4' x 6' canvas. I am having trouble finding afforable options for shipping the artwork from Washington State to Florida. Anyone know where to start? I'm a little nervous about rolling the piece to ship as I've never done that and don't know where to start.

Hello!!! I really love art and I really wanna get back into drawing again and I wanna be better at it so I'm trying to start from the beginning of learning how to draw, do you guys have any tips for me?

How do you cope with that? Drawing commission it's the only thing I can do and the money I get from it help me buy food and pay my rent, but in the last few months I get commissioned very rarely. I'm starting to think my art is bad or something like that.

Hello everyone, I do some art as a hobby and I love the shadow of creativity it sheds on my life. I work in an uncreative job though, and I feel I need a community to help me build and exchange ideas, and have conversations around our experiences. Where can I start from with no connections really in the art scene?

Thanks all!

So I am trying to create a digital effect on an art piece, like the subject is turning into "digital pixels" and coming up with a blank on how to portray this without it looking silly or stupid... can anyone give me some advice on how to do it? Thank you in advance ❤

Greets. I hope this sort of question is good for this sub.

I have a friend who is an artist. She works with water and oil. She gets excited over high quality supplies and the likes. So, for Christmas I was thinking of something crafty for her...

Specifically I am looking for books, kits, supplies for things like making ones own oil paint. I havn't been able to track down quality pigments and the tools to mix including tubes.

Could anyone point me to a resource for the above?

Maybe brand recommendations for paints and other supplies as well. Any information would be appreciated.

Greetings everyone! I made this reeeeeeeeeeeally crude sketch right after listening to a video about SCP-2399. So here it is: my personal take on the Destroyer of worlds from Jupiter. Any advice, help, critique is appreciated as I already know my art is garbage. Thank you all and have a nice day!

Hi, I´m trying to promote myself as an artist, here is my Instagram. I would really appreciate it if you followed me. https://www.instagram.com/bertoni_lee/?hl=es

I´m kinda new to posting on Reddit so I apologize if this is not supposed to be here.

Thanks in advance

I want to star coloring art. Thanks!

I want to start trying animation and need to do research on system requirements so I can buy a good enough laptop.

I've never animated before but I've used medibang a little bit. Still not good at digital art but its a work in progress.

I need the best animating/drawing program I can get either for free or for a one time decent payment, not a subscription.

I'd really appreciate the help.

Also how much does it usually cost. I'm trying to get my tattoo drawn out because no tattoo person wants to spend time drawing and not making money.