@Torq, you must be living in some kind of alternate reality... lol (or what are you taking? It must be some strong stuff... lol)
You are a good advocate for your country, Bobi.
No, he isn't o_O He's a lying sociopath. Bobko, ConstantineK and Velund are messed up in their own unique ways, but at the end of the day - they are all sociopathic Putinists.
I would have hope for the Slavic Revival if there were't 27 Kostyas and 11 Velis for every Bobko. ;)
your capitalist overlords
How is making money in capitalist New York working out for you, btw? :))) Why not China or Vietnam?
Can you explain to me, why your capitalist overlords prefer to place production in Communist China and Vietnam?
Bobko, are you kidding me? lol The reason is cheap labour that can be easily exploited.
those that benefited from Russian instruction...
Which ones are you talking about? East Asians are hard-working peoples and crazy about education usually no matter whether they live in communist or capitalist/democratic countries and what "instruction" they got... ๐คจ
but we have the truth :)
Defenitely not RuSSians. Lying seems to be part of your nature :/
You mean those millions killed during Holodomor in Ukraine? Or during the Great Chinese Famine?:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
By giving them an education, which they now trade for a Green Card?
Bobko, have you seen TV series titled "The Three-Body Problem" on Netflix (interesting series, btw)? I recommend you watch the beginning of the first episode - I think it will give you an idea about some of the things that communism brought to other countries...
Russia is protector of the weak, and defender of justice.
LOL RuSSia is the protector of its own interests - nothing more than that :)))
Hope you choke on this sentence.
As a Pole knowing history I can only laugh at it :)
There never was a democratic vote about that actually....
And that's RuSSia for you, unfortunately...
and there was resistance, the "Whites" even fighted a civil war against the communist takeover....
The "Whites" were those who were in power in the first place - they were fighting to keep that power.
and knowing the incredible oppressive brutality and the decades long bloody mass murder which did cost so many million Russians lifes
But BB... That "oppressive brutality and the decades long bloody mass murder" was done by RuSSians... They did it to each other... It wasn't done by some aliens from space :) And that's my point.
I find it hard to blame those who suffered the most for all that additionally in the end!
BB... :) RuSSians did this to each other. Noone else did. And I blame them for that.
@Novichok, there are no RuSSians living in my intelligent Polish head :))) They do reside in RuSSia however, together with a minority of decent Russians :)
...well....these two, three people aren't Russia...
Um...What "two, three" people are you talking about? You think I've discussed with only two, three Russians/RuSSians for 7 years? :)))
not even Putin is!
Tell that to RuSSians lol
And it should be hard to find a honest critic of what happens, for reasons we discussed already....open resistance can become quite dangerous!
It was RuSSians who created such conditions for themselves in their own country. Noone forced Putin on them. And other countries won't topple Putin from power and so he will stay in power. And after he won't be able to rule anymore he will likely be replaced by someone similar. That's what I meant, among others, when I wrote that German experience differs from Russian experience. Nazis were removed from power by other countries by force - Nazi Germany was invaded, occupied and denazified by others. And communism was imposed on Eastern Germany by foreign power.
Neither communism nor Putin were forced upon RuSSia by foreign countries. And both weren't and won't be toppled forcibly by foreign powers. So, we are going to be stuck with this reality for quite some time most probably.
And resistance is dangerous in RuSSia only because the majority supports Putin. And that's the problem - the majority supports Putin. And those who don't are too afraid or too few to change anything.
@Bratwurst Boy, but we're discussing reality now, not stereotypes. I wasn't discussing with "stereotypes" for 7 years - I was discussing with real people. Ukraine also isn't being invaded by "stereotypes", but by real people - RuSSians.
@Bratwurst Boy, I think you disagree, because you're projecting your German experience on RuSSians. The problem is that nations differ from each other (for whatever reasons, but they do differ). I've come to such realisation after 7 years of discussing with RuSSians. I think you simply don't know them like I do. I'd like to be wrong about this, but it doesn't look like I am, unfortunately... And Bobko is a living proof of this.
Many other Chechens have claimed they could do a better job, and we never got a chance to see how it could have been.
That's because you didn't give them a chance.
For the time being, we are stuck with Ramzan.
No, you're not "stuck" with him. He's where he is, because he's loyal to Putin. So that's a choice of the Kremlin.
It's okay if Putin does not want to punish his ferocious Rottweiler
It's "OK" for evil people and psychopaths. In other words - for RuSSians - yes, clearly.
he must be forgiven a lot.
And here's something I hope BB will read and I wish Western people (and some naive Poles) would understand - it's not Putin or Kadyrov that are the main problem. It's many, many RuSSians like Bobko that are the real problem. This guy was educated in the US, he lives and works there and has access to all the free media in the world. So you can't justify him by claiming that he is being brainwashed by the RuSSian state media.
Boris Nemtsov openly called him a thug and a murderer who had no place in Russia. So, Ramzan also killed him.
Sorry, but considering how things have been going over the years in RuSSia being the main opposition leader going against Putin is pretty obviously the main reason to get you killed in RuSSia and Kadyrov seems to be an easy mental scapegoat for RuSSians.
Btw, even IF we assume that Kadyrov is responsible for those murders - that means it was accepted/approved by Putin or, at the very least, not disapproved by Putin.
Chechnya is a medieval, feudal, and absolutely wild country inside Russia. We deal with it as best we can.
"Ah, those wild, savage Chechens - poor Putin has no control over his puppy Ramzan, what can you do..." ;D :))))
@Atch, OMG, not long ago I stumbled upon one of your older posts and it was so well written and so fun to read (even though it was just about some ladies and cakes, I think) that I thought you could write a book! :D
But a few years ago I started writing again and I managed to finish a book and write a second. Now I'm doing a third and have a fourth non-fiction on the go as well.
1. "The Bone Carver" (from "A Court of Mist and Fury") 2. "Manon" (from "Throne of Glass" series) 3. "Wings and Ruin" (montage of characters from "A Court of Wings and Ruin") 4. "The Inner Circle" ("A Court of Mist and Fury") - inspired by Alfons Mucha:
One of my favourite digital artists is a fan of her books
The artist is Charlie Bowater (she's British, btw :)) and she makes art for book covers, among others.
And this is her fan art of Sarah J. Maas characters:
1. "Fireheart" (Aelin from "Throne of Glass") 2. "The Court of Dreams" (Rhys and Feyre from "A Court of Mist and Fury") 3. "Feyre the Fox" ("A Court of Mist and Fury") 4. "The Court of Dreams" ("A Court of Mist and Fury") - I even remember this scene from the book.
They do, but it's more the school supply end rather than professional.
So that's why I had problems with finding their brushes on Polish on-line stores with art materials... :)
Liked writing. Tried writing a romance when I was 14 but realised it's very bad. Had fun though and a friend liked it
When my best friend and her boyfriend moved abroad for some time we started exchanging e-mail messages to keep in touch and that's how I found out that she has a very fun style of writing - she made reading about ordinary stuff funny and enjoyable :) I think I even tried to talk her into writing a blog or something, but to no avail, unfortunately...
I love reading and I love art
And that's how I ended up buying fantasy books by Sarah J. Maas :) One of my favourite digital artists is a fan of her books and she made some fan art with characters from her books and that artwork sparked my interest :) And I ended up binge- reading those books :))) They are an enjoyable and fast read (I think I read one of them in two days ;D). I especially recommend them to female readers - the main protagonist in both sagas is a female and not the "damsel in distress" type, so that's refreshing :) And in "A Court of Thorns and Roses" she's also into making art, so I could relate to that character :))
I don't have this one yet and it would be great to get this version, because I like the cover:
The same... I love reading and I love art, so that's an amazing combo for me :D And clever too!
I'm not talented enough to be able to do something like that
But you are! :) That fantasy dragonfly would look great as a fore-edge painting, imho... or drawing... because I'm wondering if one could use fineliners for this... hmm... ๐ค I do have two black Pigma Micron fineliners that don't bleed through, so maybe I could try them out on some book that I don't care about anymore... ๐ค Maybe something simple for a start, like some patterns...
They're done with watercolours too. I bet it's incredibly tricky to get right.
I definitely would have to get more experience with watercolours to try it... I've found a tutorial by a French lady on YouTube and in general it doesn't seem so terribly difficult and complicated as I thought (you can buy heat activated gold foil on the internet and everybody has an iron :)):
From what I've noticed people on Etsy seem to be also using gouache, not only watercolours. ๐ค
Shame there are so few artists doing it :(
Yup... :( Although I found some people selling such books on Etsy, so hopefully this craft won't die out completely...
Some are even doing that hidden type of fore-edge painting:
I had a gilt edged book as a child but I haven't seen any for years
I've never had one and the last time I saw one in real life was when I was at highschool - our classmate brought a Bible that her mum bought for her as a birthday present - it had gilded edges and was filled with reproductions of religious paintings of old masters - it looked great and it was an awesome gift for someone interested in art :)
@Lenka, I don't know - imagine what it's like to be a confectioner who's making some elaborate decorations on a birthday cake that people will admire for a few minutes and then eat it in an hour maybe... ๐ค
Books are often much more long-lived than that... :)
"Fore-edge painting as a craft is deemed critically endangered in the contemporary era. The Heritage Crafts Association (HCA) only lists four "craftspeople currently known" as working in this medium.
The remaining artists that practice fore-edge painting are amateurs and leisure makers numbering fewer than sixty. According to the HCA, there are currently no formal trainees in the art form."
To be honest, I associate Faber Castell mainly with pencils and coloured pencils... ๐ค Do they make their own brushes and stuff like that?
There's no doubt that art college definitely killed some of the joy of art for me. After I left I didn't even touch a pencil, let alone a brush for about two years!
Yeah, it was the same for me... That's why I decided to study at uni something unrelated to art. And then I started working, so I focused on that. But with time, gradually, it started getting back to me... That need to draw and paint... :))
I don't know about you but I have to go into another world and I find that very hard to do nowadays for a number of reasons.
Personally, I guess I "just" need to have time for that, not be too tired (since I want to enjoy it) and not have to do something that is "more important"... and I'm good to go and draw/paint.
Digital art doesn't do much for me as I'm not a great lover of computers in general. Guess I'm a bit old school in that respect.
I can understand that (although I love digital art myself :)), but that video wasn't really about digital painting - it was just an example of using a photo reference for your drawing - you can use it in the same way for a traditional drawing. Drawing from a photo is not that much different than drawing from a live model during an art class - you practice drawing anatomy in this way, proportions, shading, clothes, etc. It's more convenient though, because a photo doesn't get cramps from sitting or standing still in one pose for a long time :))
It's been a long time since I drew anything though, I have to be in the right frame of mind and I'm not sure I would have the concentration required anymore.
That's a pity, because you clearly have potential... ๐ฅบ
So am I going to be the only one posting stuff in this thread? :/ That sucks... Where is gregy and his opals when you need him... ;P lol
Oh well...
I think I remember that someone is collecting rare books (or sth like that) on PF... I recently came across this - I didn't even know that people used to do something like that to books - it looks amazing :O:
So cool!:
It's called "fore-edge painting":
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting
I'm not a book collector, but I'd live to have such a book :D ๐
Btw, interesting - they also have synthetic imitation of sable hair:
daler-rowney.com/dalon-paint-brushes/
So you can just use regular drawing paper but soak it and tape it to a board with masking tape.
I've never done that before... As far as I remember at art school we were using Fabriano paper for watercolours and we weren't doing any stretching (but we weren't doing washes much, I guess...). I do have a Canson Student for watercolours:
I don't remember, to be honest lol I don't know what happened to those drawings - I made them with a ballpoint pen in some notebook, as usual, so it's possible that this notebook was thrown away... :/ All I remember is that my brother, who was contributing to some Polish site/forum about "X-Men" comic books, told me that those Jim Lee's copies of mine were better than any fanart that people were posting on that site/forum. So, I guess I was successful to at least some extent.
You see, this is where your training comes in. I wouldn't even think about things like that.
If you mean my education at that art school then not really... We weren't taught there how to draw from imagination... And when I was at art school I wasn't using any photo references when I was drawing for fun - just like in your case it didn't really cross my mind. I only learned how much using references improves your art some years later thanks to the artists I followed on the internet - they were sharing their thoughts, their art process and tutorials and that's how I learned about it.
Here you have an example of such a tutorial from a popular digital artist (the idea and process is exactly the same for traditional art though):
And here's some general and good video about how artists learn to draw - your scientific mind will probably appreciate this take :):
