screaming at self to paint the fucking deer already
Here’s the fucking deer.
I scanned the fucking deer. I might post him properly on my art account, but here he is clearer for anyone that wanted to see.
Part of me didnt want to hit like or reblog because the notes were so beautiful…
But then i thought; this art is even more beautiful. And now hello 10002 notes.
This deserves a second reblog
@ladyyatexel QUESTION. what do you mean by scan?! Cuz when ppl scan their art it looks digital. So someones like this is an oil and pastel but it looks digital… really confusing but my question is what do you mean by scan???
You’ve got me at a loss here, friend. I’m not sure what you’ve seen or what you’ve missed about scanners. Scanners take physical items and make progressive digital images of them. I put my painting on the glass, the light and photographing element slides along underneath it when I initiate the scan from my computer, and I’m given a digital copy of a thing I painted in real life. I don’t know who you have been seeing scan art that makes it look digital, or even precisely what you mean by that. Perhaps they have particularly bad quality scanners that are introducing glitchy, pixeled, or unclear elements, but I haven’t seen a scanner that had that problem in about 20 years. (In fairness, I haven’t purchased a cheap or casual scanner in that long because I always knew I’d be doing art things with one, so they probably still make some that could have these effects, but I imagine even the cheap ones now are better than what a good one could do in the 90s.)
Many people scan their traditional ink lineart and then paint those lines digitally, and many digital art programs offer tools that are meant to mimic (with varying degrees of success) the looks of many traditional tools. There’s also something of a trend of very obviously photographing artwork still on a work station or in a sketchbook for Instagram purposes vs scanning and posting the image by itself. So those things may also contribute to your confusion about what you’re seeing.
This painting is watercolor on watercolor paper. It’s a real thing that exists and is currently hanging on the wall in my step-father’s office. The first photo is it resting between my knee and my laptop on my lapdesk. It was then put on my scanner, and the clearer, brighter image below is the digital photographic scan that resulted. The next image is not mine and is someone’s screenshot of how the image that resulted from me scanning looks on their phone in their Tumblr app.
I hope something there cleared it up for you! I’ve had a lot of people confused about how my scan looks so nice and I thought all this time people have been asking about the process to adjust an image once it has been scanned, but maybe I’ve just been way off regarding what people know about scanners in general!
