gardening Gardening Tales from the Garden: Milkweed
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  • Rutty Rutty 3 days ago 100%

    Interesting. Do you know if this is a problem on the west coast? The article leaves it vague, with some indication that it may only be a Florida problem

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    Gardening Rutty 3 days ago 100%
    Tales from the Garden: Milkweed

    I had a volunteer milkweed this year in my small raised bed/container garden. Early into the season it developed a yellow aphid infestation. I was horrified! They were disgusting things (and far, far too many of them). While I was interested in an insect garden, I was worried spread to nearby plants, specifically my prized blackberries, affecting yields. I researched and treated the aphid infestation with Neem Oil and basically killed the living population. Success! Or so I thought… After I traveled for about a month, I returned to see the aphids had rebounded in full force. An interesting thing though, neither had they spread to other plants. Even more interesting there were ladybugs, there were beetles, there were wasps, there was even a praying mantis. I wouldn’t say the milkweed is super happy about the arrangement, but it is growing, and it was a volunteer into the garden. Overall it’s been the best plant of the season by far teaching me a little bit about ecosystems. TLDR: my aphid infestation totally allowed my predator insect population to boom

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    artshare Art Share🎨 Marker on photo paper
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    Color scheme change up. Nice.

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    Art Share🎨 Rutty 2 weeks ago 97%
    Drawing practice

    Drawing a stack of books.

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    Art Share🎨 Rutty 2 weeks ago 100%
    The Prospector

    Playing around with felt tip Japanese pen thingy. Reference was some AI image I built from prompt.

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    Reference

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    Matador

    Drawing Practice from the end of July.

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    gardening Gardening Info Request: Vermi-Composting
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  • Rutty Rutty 3 weeks ago 100%

    Don’t worry there’s an industry for that. https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-is-human-composting

    I was just going to use kitchen scraps.

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    gardening Gardening Info request: vermi-composting
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  • Rutty Rutty 3 weeks ago 100%

    https://youtu.be/991qDFd-uaI?feature=shared

    I was thinking something akin to this setup.

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    Gardening Rutty 3 weeks ago 100%
    Info request: vermi-composting en.wikipedia.org

    I don’t know much about vermi composting, but I am thinking of giving it a go. Does anyone have a good resource, knowledge, or recommendation on where to start? My thoughts were to get a couple metal grated waste baskets, a bunch of earth worms and put one in each of my raised garden beds. Or should I run an experiment and do one bed and not the other? What are its benefits? Downsides(rodents,possums for instance)? Guidance is appreciated.

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    health Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related A rare but deadly mosquito virus infection has Massachusetts towns urging vigilance
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  • Rutty Rutty 3 weeks ago 100%

    Release the dragonflies

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  • Rutty Rutty 4 weeks ago 100%

    I mean, it’s a window and shadow ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

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  • Rutty Rutty 4 weeks ago 100%

    I enjoyed the fact that the car has a face. Nice work!

    I wouldn’t had noticed without a quick sketch

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  • artshare Art Share🎨 Static (digital)
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  • Rutty Rutty 4 weeks ago 100%

    The TV static on the eyes is a good touch.

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  • Rutty Rutty 4 weeks ago 100%

    Good dynamic pose! Are you starting with a quick gesture drawing?

    I enjoy seeing your work, thanks for posting.

    I have been playing around with some martial arts as well.

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  • artshare Art Share🎨 "Tracer Bullet" (MacDraw II)
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  • Rutty Rutty 4 weeks ago 100%

    I like your choice of medium

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    Drawing Practice

    Reference images were from Stylepedia, by Fashionary.

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    The ugly duckling
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  • Rutty Rutty 4 weeks ago 100%

    This is it

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    Thank you

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  • artshare Art Share🎨 Guess the source?
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    ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Don Piraro

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    Art Share🎨 Rutty 1 month ago 97%
    Guess the source?

    Reply with answer incoming…

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    artshare Art Share🎨 Drawing Practice
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    Thank you,

    All I did was recompose the scene though. The bear, rabbit, and raccoon are just renderings from reference.

    I rather like the idea of a kungfu rabbit, it hadn’t even occurred to me until it was mentioned here.

    Off topic?: I have been using AI images a lot for reference, and I am uncertain about a lot of things* but I will say parts of it let me pick and choose what parts are interesting. Ideally I’d like to start storyboarding using some level of this technique.

    *Like is AI being trained on everyone’s data, but the profits are certain to be privatized, how is that ethical?

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    Reference: Bing AI image generator.

    Prompt: show me something humorous

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    artshare Art Share🎨 Materials study, watercolor on paper.
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    Woah, this is very good to my eye.

    Did you only use greys? I not sure if I see another color or not?

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    How do you evaluate a good or bad paper when in a store?

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  • artshare Art Share🎨 A thing. A4, ink on paper
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    I think it was a little before his time. His stuff is good though

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    Happy Birthday
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  • Rutty Rutty 1 month ago 100%

    You are most likely correct!

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    Gardening Rutty 1 month ago 100%
    Lillies
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  • Rutty Rutty 1 month ago 100%

    I like this one.

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  • artshare Art Share🎨 Watercolor Tree
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    Have you thought about adding leaves with ink? There should be a number of linear ink tutorials that might help with definition.

    I am learning myself, and trying to think about composition.

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  • Rutty Rutty 1 month ago 100%

    There was a guy on public access TV that used to draw sci-fi scenes using tubes. This reminds me of that. Thank you.

    Also I like how it looks almost like yarn. It’s a pleasant texture.

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  • artshare Art Share🎨 Anna. Technical pen, February 2024.
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  • Rutty Rutty 1 month ago 100%

    This is earlier than your previous work yea?

    I see you starting to develop your line rendering technique in this piece.

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  • Rutty Rutty 1 month ago 100%

    Yes

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  • Rutty Rutty 1 month ago 100%

    America has a lot of communities which are of European descents, it kind of makes sense.

    Maggot is a term used to describe slipknot fans.

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    Art Share🎨 Rutty 1 month ago 95%
    Watercolor studies

    If there is in interest in the reference material let me know.

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    artshare Art Share🎨 Impressionist Beach
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    I am currently learning the effects of water color paint vs acrylic.

    I like the blending you were able to get with the eye.

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    Strength

    Continuing my exploration into watercolour. This is based on the tarot card strength.

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    artshare Art Share🎨 Impressionist Beach
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    Have you ever tried watercolour?

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  • 3dprinting 3DPrinting [OC] Frog Samurai Leather Stamp
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  • Rutty Rutty 1 month ago 100%

    Awesome. Thank you

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  • Rutty Rutty 1 month ago 100%

    I think your suggestions are good ones. I am not entirely sure of which path to choose though. Thank you for your advice.

    je suis americaine.

    Are you a slip knot fan by chance?

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    Nice! I have thought about doing something like this, but haven’t yet.

    Would you mind if I asked you how you transferred the drawing to 3D? I use fusion360, and the process can be a bit finicky.

    Ideally I would like to take a drawing and convert it into a stamp

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    artshare Art Share🎨 Drawing Practice. Spider-Man
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    Source: an animation from didier_animations

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  • artshare Art Share🎨 Maja. White gel pen on black paper, February 2023.
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  • Rutty Rutty 2 months ago 100%

    Dang, inverting feels like a solid choice.

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  • artshare Art Share🎨 Quick sketch. Barbarian welding Excalibur.
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    I love the story. The thought of the barbarian wielding the sword while it was still attached to the boulder is clever.

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  • Rutty Rutty 2 months ago 100%

    I like the abstraction in this

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    More honestly though.

    Referencing makes a lot of sense with helping improve ‘art’. Think of When you practice in art class the warmups they give where you draw a picture. I think the most informative critique is when there is a reference to compare to.

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  • Rutty Rutty 2 months ago 16%

    Exactly! So take your passive aggressive comments and get off your

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes Guess that politician!
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    That man makes news atm

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    Image for reference. NSFW

    ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler :::

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    Art Share🎨 Rutty 2 months ago 95%
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    Based of a work of Aubrey Beardsley

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    Art Share🎨 Rutty 2 months ago 100%
    What's your favorite Olympic sport?

    Mine is probably judo

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    Art Share🎨 Rutty 2 months ago 100%
    Eat Your Veggies!
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    3DPrinting Rutty 2 months ago 98%
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    Art Share🎨 Rutty 2 months ago 95%
    The Dread Jester. 2024

    If anyone is interested, I’ll walk you through the process.

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    Art Share🎨 Rutty 2 months ago 90%
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    Gardening Rutty 5 months ago 88%
    (Help Request) Small white dots on blackberry vines

    I started noticing small white flecks on my blackberry vines. Is this something to worry about? Mildew? I have hard water, but doubt it’s mineral deposits.

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    Gardening Rutty 5 months ago 100%
    What is this plant?

    I bought it last year and didn’t get its name. It blooms then dies, then repeats next season

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