A place to talk about art on Farcaster. Artwork created by jacob.eth

Geez. Are there any REAL artists anymore? All these tricks and shortcuts, click a button, get art… Where’s the craftsmanship? The self-sufficiency? You know what makes a REAL artist? 🧵

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Experimental 2D/3D artist. Data science Pythonista. He/They. Nerdy++; (Nearly) all work CC-BY/CC0/FOSS

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Grow pine trees. Grow flax. Grow cotton. Hew your own lumber. Press your own linseed oil. Weave your own canvas. Mine your own iron ore, chalk, ochre, lapis lazuli, and other minerals. Smelt your own iron. Forge it into nails and brads.

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Trap or raise your own rabbits. Make gesso from rabbit skin glue and chalk. Chemically synthesize any pigments you can’t extract directly. Grind your pigments and mix your paint. Raise hogs. Use their hairs to make brushes. Now paint something.

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Oh, you want to share it on the internet? Manufacture silicon wafers. Design your chips. Etch them. Assemble them. Smelt copper ore and make wires. Synthesize plastic insulation. Write an operating system and your own implementation of the TCP/IP stack.

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Then maybe, finally, after all of that, you have earned the high honor of calling yourself an artist. Anything less is cheating. / s

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