No, that’s not a painting. It’s actually a dog.
no its not
it’s not hard to tell that it’s a painting after even a cursory glance.
But the question is, would it have been harder to spot as a painting if I hadn’t been told it was a painting before clicking on it?
I dunno. But I still think it’s very obviously a painting. A very good one, for sure. But not quite as photorealistic as this thread seems to want to ooh and aahhh about.
It’s the snow for me. The dog is great but the snow doesn’t sell it.
Artist: Scott Mitchell
Painting in question can be seen on this page.
You can watch a timelapse of them painting on YouTube should you not believe this is an oil painting.
Blows my mind every time seeing a painting like this that can only be recognized as a painting by zooming in until you can see texture/brush strokes.
Looks like a damn photograph otherwise.
I wish I had even 1% of this talent, but my brain is perpetually starved of dopamine so I never have the drive pursue my hobbies. So I’m forced to get my dopamine from artificial sources. But then that eventually stops working too, which makes things even worse.
I was experiencing moderate executive dysfunction from extreme anxiety last year. I started drawing but maybe did a small doodle at a time(<15min). I just kept the sketchbook and supplies in the one special place i kept clear of my chaotic clutter(even if that just meant pushing stuff around the desk). I think i picked it up once a week on average. A year on and I’ve done about a hundred sketches. I guess i decided that out of everything in life, that’s what i valued putting miserable little bits of energy into.
Don’t know if that’s possible for you but every time you pick up that hobby you get a little better at it and that skill is never lost. So you know… Progress is progress ig.
Man I really feel this
I like this quote from Ira Glass, which sometimes helps:
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer
There’s more, but this is the core bit. It helps me because when I’m spiraling I can at least remember, yeah, my tastes are killer. My tastes kick ass
Having a lack of executive function is the big hurdle. All the motivation and desire in the world doesn’t help against that. :/
{{{{hugggs}}}}
to accomplish a goal everyone needs two things, the desire, and the circumstances. Desire is internal, but circumstances are usually out of our control. It sounds like your circumstances are challenging. You might not be able to do what you wish you could, but you’re still beautiful. I didn’t know you, but I bet your tastes are killer
I’m in this comment and I don’t like it.
I see pixels before brush strokes. Like pixelated brush strokes
It’s also a-panting.
It’s just amazing what people are capable of achieving. This painting is remarkable.
in this thread, as a twist on the more common meme “is this AI” or the more accusatory variant “this is AI”, we doubt human intelligence instead
I’m disheartened by comments stating “whats the point?” just because it’s hyper realistic. I do prefer less realistic art too, but the amount of dedication it must’ve taken this person to develop these skills and then the work on each painting, it speaks volumes beyond just being a replacement for a picture… You’d hang it on a wall and tell every visitor “this is a painting” and then each and every one of them would go NOOO
Cela n’est pas une peinture
It’s a digital image (of a painting of a dog)
This is cool and all but I like REAL art…
You know like when a guy climbs a ladder with a balloon, jumps off and belly flops onto the balloon fill with paint and then the canvas sort of rips in the corner. Then you have a biggish blob of paint on the floor and the crowd goes wild for your artistic ability and pure genius. Then you turn around and sell your pure art for millions of dollars worth seconds of your time.
That’s the REAL art
I’m more into firing painted matchsticks at a sheet of glass with a toy cannon, myself.
Wow …just like …damn
Amazing!
Good lord, people, you can tell it’s a painting if you zoom in. “Is this butterfly AI?” on everything was bad enough!
On mobile, i cant zoom in enough to tell
I don’t see the point once you reach photo realistic unless you’re portraying things that cannot exist in reality. Just take a picture bro.
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No, it’s not.
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No, it’s not.
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MAYBE a digital painting. MAYBE.
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Yes, it is.
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Yes, it is.
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It is an oil on canvas painting.
Any other bold claims you’d like to make? The arrogance is astounding. To make two different comments seperated by 20 minutes insisting something you’re wrong about…
Why didn’t you post the source to begin with to avoid all of this?
Said the person who was more than capable of looking the information up themselves. I didn’t have that information saved. I had to get it because people like you refused to do it yourself and instead just speculated.
Maybe you should ask that question internally before asking it like an accusation, huh?
Got it, so you did it so you could use it as a vehicle be rude, arrogant, and smug.
Let’s be absolutely clear about this: You posted someone else’s work and didn’t even bother to attribute it to them, which is already slimy. Then when questioned on the claim you made about the nature of the work you took it upon yourself to fly off the handle at everyone like a whiny toddler rather than do the right thing and modify your post to include the requisite context and information, which I notice you still haven’t done. I redacted my previous comment when I discovered I was wrong whereas you still have not added the source to your post, but you think you’re going to screech at me about “taking responsibility?” Instead, you want to go around individually berating and insulting everyone in the comments.
It’s not on us, every single person on the internet, to go out of our way to verify if what some rando claimed about an image is true – especially in a world rife with AI slop and photoshop filters, plus the horde of liars who use them. The onus is on you, the individual making the claim.
If you want to make up your own story and insult me all the way through it, by all means. But don’t expect me to play along with you.
I gave the source the moment when questioned.
Why didn’t you post the source to begin with.
BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE IT.
I did not go to the source location, save the image, come here and post it. I had the image saved and then had to find the source after the fact. Which means that both of us at that stage needed to take the exact same steps to find the source image. That’s why I said you could have easily gotten it yourself. But you didn’t. You spent your time questioning it instead of verifying anything and now are getting self-righteously angry because people have pointed out that you should have paid attention. Or, at the very least, asked a question. Because if you did ask for the source, I probably would have gone looking for it. But acting like this? Insulting me, getting angry at people pointing out that you made a bad call? Doesn’t do anything other than make me have quite a lot of disdain for you and add you to my block list.
I gave you a clear and cut answer. You refused it, made up your own nonsense and then doubled down further. You then get pissy when I point out you could have done the same because you were still rejecting the answer I had already given you.
Stop inventing your own narrative and acting like it is reality. It isn’t. You’re not that good of an author.
Goodbye.
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