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Ask HN: Do you create digital art? let's see it

41 points by pentestercrab ↗ HN
I wonder how many HNers create paintings, pixel art, sketches, 3D renders, animations or whatever.. share with us !

Inspired after seeing the great audio content shared in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26391254

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tomlockwood
I created this randomized cellular automata generator recently and some of the outputs are beautiful: https://lockwood.dev/automata/2020/03/28/bruteforcing-beauti...
eyelidlessness
This is neat! Our projects are very different but we presented them similarly, walking through the concept with code and examples. I'm curious about your writing process. At least for me it really helped explain what the heck I was doing by rendering out the intermediate steps.
lukey_q
I like making digital art and little tools to help with creating digital art... happy to see this thread, here are a few things I'm proud of from over the years

An app for pen plotters focused on drawing and creating art manually more than the generative side of things [1]

A Ruby script that takes still images and recreates them entirely out of emojis [2]. Someone used it to make a music video [3]

And finally a Twitter bot that combines Marmaduke comics and Erowid trip reports at random [4]

[1] https://github.com/lilkraftwerk/lineboi3000 [2] http://lilkraftwerk.github.io/Emojisaic/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq3eR4xHjLs [4] https://twitter.com/pharmaduke3000

haps
Working on building my professional art career since around 2016. I mostly work in ink, digital or traditional and subject matter belongs in fantasy, horror, cyberpunk, biomechanical, environmental, abstract, etc.

You can find some of my art and links to my social media accounts on my website https://hapsam.com/art

avian
I really like the layout of your website and the way you present your art on it.
alemelis
Your drawings are amazing. The style reminds me of Kim Jung Gi, very detailed and precise; thanks for sharing!
23d
Great work! I love the linework.
Adrig
Learning to paint has been my greatest satisfaction in a tough year 2020. Never managed to be satisfied with my drawings for my whole life, I'm quite proud!

https://www.instagram.com/adriengonin/ https://www.deviantart.com/saivia01

didgeoridoo
Wow those are fantastic! How did you go about learning?
Adrig
Thanks! The first and biggest step was to really analyze how my favorites artists worked and to use photo references like a maniac. Taking notes, measuring, focusing on abstracting every element. For some reason I thought that painting should come "naturally" with enough practice, which is stupid.

Then I watched the course "digital painting with Craig Mullins" which is nothing short of incredible. He goes over every step of the process and share just enough art theory without being boring. I'm not sure whether it would fit absolute beginners, but it was the perfect resource for me. And his art is amazing!

jgotti92
I am creating and publishing AI art at https://art-supreme.com/

The market for AI is relatively small but I would consider to be at the top given the community that formed around it.

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kleer001
I've been doing vfx for 20+ years. So...

- watch a movie :

2020 Upside Down Magic

2017 The Fate of the Furious (visual effects artist)

2015 San Andreas

2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron

2013 R.I.P.D.

2011 Happy Feet Two

2011 Mars Needs Moms

2009 A Christmas Carol

2008 The Tale of Despereaux

2007 Enchanted

2006 The Shaggy Dog

2005 Constantine

2004 Hellboy

2003 The Matrix Revolutions

2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

- or a more recent TV show:

Another Life

Gabby and the Unsittables

Charmed

There's certainly other things I've worked on, but they're lost down the memory hole for good.

gabrielsroka
It's JavaScript; I'm not sure you'd call it "art".

https://www.khanacademy.org/profile/gabrielsroka/projects

https://editor.p5js.org/gabrielsroka/sketches

https://www.dwitter.net/u/gabrielsroka

eyelidlessness
I can only see the renders on the first link (iPhone) but it’s a good foundation! Give yourself credit where due. There’s definitely art there, and there’s a lot to work with.
gabrielsroka
Thank you. Many of them are interactive, even video games and cpu intensive. I would definitely recommend viewing/interacting with them on a desktop or a laptop.
mikewarot
If you take many photos from slightly different locations, you can combine them into a virtual focal plane with interesting results.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/---mike---/albums/721577185851...

There used to be far, far more, but I ragequit after a bad UX experience that cost me years of accumulated links from other users on the site. I'm slowly putting things back.

eyelidlessness
Okay, I’ve been hesitant to Show HN but this feels like a good space. I built an algorithmic art project for my personal site/tech blog: https://eyelidlessness.github.io/

The site’s still young and there’s more coming but the initial art algorithm is in place and I did an explainer here: https://eyelidlessness.github.io/blog/2021/03/what-the-art-p...

TLDR: the art is generated from the git commit hash when a post is published.

I have a bunch of ideas for other ways to use the git hash data for other variants, but I’m pretty happy with the first pass!