this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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Traditional Art

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From dabblers to masters, obscure to popular and ancient to futuristic, this is an inclusive community dedicated to showcasing all types of art by all kinds of artists, as long as they're made in a traditional medium

'Traditional' here means 'Physical', as in artworks which are NON-DIGITAL in nature.

What's allowed: Acrylic, Pastel, Encaustic, Gouache, Oil and Watercolor Paintings; Ink Illustrations; Manga Panels; Pencil and Charcoal sketches; Collages; Etchings; Lithographs; Wood Prints; Pottery; Ceramics; Metal, Wire and paper sculptures; Tapestry; weaving; Qulting; Wood carvings, Armor Crafting and more.

What's not allowed: Digital art (anything made with Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Krita, Blender, GIMP or other art programs) or AI art (anything made with Stable Diffusion, Midjourney or other models)


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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Didn't people find the world in the background

Edit: they did

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Seed finders are truly talented

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

His art is so unique, fits so well in Minecraft even though it gets pixilated beyond recognition.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm receiving reports to ban this on the grounds that it is digital and kinda breaks the one big rule of this community. On one hand it looks like an in-game screenshot (to me at least, I don't really know much about Minecraft) but on the other hand, I think the original Kristoffer Zetterstrand artwork is a traditional oil painting on canvas

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My understanding is Kristoffer does oil on canvas with inspiration from video games and his works were put into Minecraft and digitally pixelized. Here's a side by side of the Minecraft one and the original oil painting:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Huh, never realized it was flipping me off

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I can still see the Japanese-porn-style censoring though. Pixels the size of ||censored||!!