"Up Front" UPDATES

[Llehlla]

Only one today, but a great one, from our own @Llehlla

You may have seen it posted on her thread here, but still worth checking out there too, where you can vote, comment, favorite and follow.

Thank you so much @THROBBS for letting people for letting people know that Llehlla tries like to show up and would be here more if she could!

 

[Llehlla]

I have an idea for a new name for The Visual Arts Corner. What do you think of the Jizzyouall Arts Corner?
(Jizz-you-all)

 

[Llehlla]

Kinda funny. Though "jizz" does scare off some demographics.

Perhaps if we changed it to the more crowd pleasing, “All that Jizz”?
Or, it could be imbued with a slightly more upscale tenor with the simple addition of a French article, comme, “Le Jizz”?
(This is not a serious suggestion. It is meant to be funny.)

 

[Llehlla]

4 new today


I submitted one today... should be up in a few.

I submitted two yesterday.

 

[OffNSFW]

WOO HOO! EIGHT new ones today!
including 2 from our own @Llehlla and one from @OffNSFW

Hey, I'm almost caught up to the drawings I post here!

 

[Llehlla]

6 new images today.

One is mine.

Thank you for these updates. I find them helpful.

 

[Llehlla]

Good!

It's pretty much just you and me on here anyway. LOL

If it weren’t for you perpetually trying to get the party started I wouldn’t be here either.
You’re the only one with any initiative.

 

[Llehlla]

It paid off!!!!!

getting one person to reply every now and then is your idea of it paying off? You’re easy to please and I’m happy to oblige!
I’ve had a lot of fun with the font colors and options since you taught me how to change them, by the way, as you’ve already noticed, so it goes without saying, that I enjoy these options, and that I can write a sentence with so many phrases, all of which are not only unnecessary, but Our meaningless, that is to say, they from whatever point I was trying to make , that I don’t even know where the sentence started or how to concluded it, that being said, which, by the way is an expression which is way overused in my opinion, anyway, that being said, I’ll say no more .

 

[Llehlla]

You got yourself another red H, @Llehlla !
woohooo!

If you didn't already know — if you get 10 (I think) votes (or more) and the average is 4.5 (or higher), you get a red H, for HOT! Then, shortly afterward, folk get salty and start voting you down.

That’s right! Woe betied unto him her she her they it who dareth ascend the red pillars of H!

 

[THROBBS]

Three new images today.

One, being a pet peeve of mine — an image claimed as an oil painting, which is not.
Checking the other images by the same person — they are all digital filters applied to photos and labeld as either oil painting or pencil/charcoal drawings.

Just label them what they are!

 

[blurhead]

Three new images today.

One, being a pet peeve of mine — an image claimed as an oil painting, which is not.
Checking the other images by the same person — they are all digital filters applied to photos and labeld as either oil painting or pencil/charcoal drawings.

Just label them what they are!

I agree - I always wonder if it is an attempt at wilful deception, or just ignorance, or maybe its just that (in today's brave new world) as they say it is an oil painting then we must believe them.

 

[THROBBS]

I agree - I always wonder if it is an attempt at wilful deception, or just ignorance, or maybe its just that (in today's brave new world) as they say it is an oil painting then we must believe them.

Some of each , I reckon.

Some folk seem to believe that using digital tools that are labeled "oil paint" makes it so. Nope.

At best, it is digital painting. More often it is simply a filter applied, which mimics (poorly, tho' getting more convincing) oil painting.

 

[gsnowpainter]

Some of each , I reckon.

Some folk seem to believe that using digital tools that are labeled "oil paint" makes it so. Nope.

At best, it is digital painting. More often it is simply a filter applied, which mimics (poorly, tho' getting more convincing) oil painting.

You are very right re digital works pawned off as oil paintings. It is the difference between fine art and illustration. Fine art speaks for itself. Illustration is usually work for mass reproduction and only requires appearance with the usual copyright distinctions. In any case, I can make several changes and submit for the client's approval. It saves time and expensive materials; a win win situation. The filters are for people who want to make something appear to be fine art etc .

 

[THROBBS]

You are very right re digital works pawned off as oil paintings. It is the difference between fine art and illustration. Fine art speaks for itself. Illustration is usually work for mass reproduction and only requires appearance with the usual copyright distinctions. In any case, I can make several changes and submit for the client's approval. It saves time and expensive materials; a win win situation. The filters are for people who want to make something appear to be fine art etc .

I disagree with that comparison of fine art to illustration. Illustration can be fine art, just as fine art can be illustrative.
Illustration, in its best form, can speak for itself. Just as fine art, though typically presented without text, sometimes needs it.

Regardless of all that, I feel that one should not mislabel (misrepresent) what is presented. An oil painting is painted with oil. A digital painting is a digital painting, with no oil (or bristly brushes, or turpentine) involved.

 

[blurhead]

You are very right re digital works pawned off as oil paintings. It is the difference between fine art and illustration. Fine art speaks for itself. Illustration is usually work for mass reproduction and only requires appearance with the usual copyright distinctions. In any case, I can make several changes and submit for the client's approval. It saves time and expensive materials; a win win situation. The filters are for people who want to make something appear to be fine art etc .

I received an email from the author of that piece:

"I know that my 'oil painting' is not a real oil painting, but Literotica does not allow filtered photos on here, so I had to pretend it was genuine. Why do you want to draw attention to that? I just want to publish what I want. I like your art, by the way".

 

[THROBBS]

I received an email from the author of that piece:

"I know that my 'oil painting' is not a real oil painting, but Literotica does not allow filtered photos on here, so I had to pretend it was genuine. Why do you want to draw attention to that? I just want to publish what I want. I like your art, by the way".

I get that. Literotica has their rules. I would not mind (as much) if everyone could post and there were separate categories and labels.

The general viewing public is largely ignorant and becoming more so, with misrepresentation.

 

[Llehlla]

FOUR new images.

One is mine.

In my opinion, two of those should go away. Following the letter of the law, but the illustrations them selves shout underage to me. Particularly the one with the mother and daughter, WTF.?

 

[Llehlla]

FOUR new images.

One is mine.

FOUR new images.

One is mine.

those two drawings have lined notebook paper as the background and the content is clearly teen age material. The girl whining to her mother? This is so blatantly under age despite the disclaimer that all characters are under the age of 18. I could report it or I could drop it. I’m not big into reporting, but it bothers me when something this juvenile in concept content and execution gets a pass.

 

[Llehlla]

Only one today

rather "primitive" in execution.

agree

 

[29wordsforsnow]

Just a quick interruption for a question to, what I think, one of the most prolific analog artists on Lit: Do you invest time into post-processing your scanned illustrations, removing specks, adjusting contrast, colors etc.? Is it worth it, or is the audience already moving on to the next before noticing?

 

[THROBBS]

Just a quick interruption for a question to, what I think, one of the most prolific analog artists on Lit: Do you invest time into post-processing your scanned illustrations, removing specks, adjusting contrast, colors etc.? Is it worth it, or is the audience already moving on to the next before noticing?

Good question.
Not much time really. Only when I'd like to add/adjust something which can be done much faster with photoshop... for example some even atmosphere. Most of what I post on LIT is "throw away" work, done on cheap copier paper, and just for giggles. There are certainly exceptions, like the water color, Full Moon, Blanket of Stars. Or the dancer, which has a bunch of background texture (marble, mostly) added.

So for the most part— I'll scan (or take a photo) and quickly (no fussing) adjust levels, scale down, add ©I.M.Fauve and post. If there is a really distracting glob/dust spec I might clone it out. With photos, the light is often uneven, cuz I can't be bothered to set it up properly, so I may quickly use the burn or dodge tool to even it a bit.

Yes, the audience doesn't give a rot. They certainly are not paying customers! LOL

 

[RobLivesInTexas]

Only one today

rather "primitive" in execution.

Who cares about "primitive" in execution. It's a great drawing, and I like that you put yourself in many places at once. If only . . .

 

[Llehlla]

Who cares about "primitive" in execution. It's a great drawing, and I like that you put yourself in many places at once. If only . . .

Were you describing one of your own drawings as primitive and execution? I thought you were referring to a different drawing I would not have written. “agree” if I thought you were referring to one of your own, I’m going to just shut up and stop commenting on anything.@THROBBS

 

[Llehlla]

Good question.
Not much time really. Only when I'd like to add/adjust something which can be done much faster with photoshop... for example some even atmosphere. Most of what I post on LIT is "throw away" work, done on cheap copier paper, and just for giggles. There are certainly exceptions, like the water color, Full Moon, Blanket of Stars. Or the dancer, which has a bunch of background texture (marble, mostly) added.

So for the most part— I'll scan (or take a photo) and quickly (no fussing) adjust levels, scale down, add ©I.M.Fauve and post. If there is a really distracting glob/dust spec I might clone it out. With photos, the light is often uneven, cuz I can't be bothered to set it up properly, so I may quickly use the burn or dodge tool to even it a bit.

Yes, the audience doesn't give a rot. They certainly are not paying customers! LOL

I’m just putting this comment here because this is where I am, but I seem to be misinterpreting your meanings. You are intentions your comments on a pretty regular basis. For example, putting a laugh face laughing face when I think something you have drawn is funny and it turns out you did not intend for it to be funny. or thinking you were calling another artwork primitive when in fact, you were speaking of your own work. I think I’m going to cut back on my replies because I seem to be tone, deaf, and or communicating from a place of confusion. Let me just say you get a blanket “like/love“ from me on all that you do.

 

[RobLivesInTexas]

Were you describing one of your own drawings as primitive and execution? I thought you were referring to a different drawing I would not have written. “agree” if I thought you were referring to one of your own, I’m going to just shut up and stop commenting on anything.

Throbbs said it was "primitive" in execution, so I assume he meant old-school pencil on paper. I hope I was reading that correctly. Anyway, I like his art (and yours!) a lot precisely because they look like "art", whatever that means. Some of the things that appear here "look" like they were done with AI. That's okay, but it seems impersonal to me, more like a photograph showing the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa (notice the phallic monuments). Art like Yours, Throbbs, and a few others have personality all over them. I like them as art, but they also tell me about yourselves. And for me, that personal communication is the core of any art, visual, musical, dance, literature, etc. In my own field of music, I've heard so much routine music that is passed off as high art, but the really great music reaches into my soul from the composer's soul.