He looks like he wants to steal my picnic basket…
Surely you mean pic-a-nic basket?
Really captured the “if not friend why friend-shaped” energy.
The uhhhhhhhhhhhh
The amazing paintings in that cave don’t stop there.
Is this the cave where they built a full scale replica for visitors right next to the actual cave because the real cave is too sensitive to light?
Fun fact, it’s actually been theorized that overlapping cave paintings like that were essentially a rudimentary form of animation, as flickering firelight would create the illusion of movement.
what a rollercoaster of emotions: “please just have a video- oh they do! great. oh hold on that’s a terrible video that shows absolutely nothing and just gives me a headache with its 5 frames per second, why did they even bother?”
The old masters of art.
Looks like it was done using the spline tool.
so reticulated
I’m assuming that’s because they were using the curvature of their thumb.
what is an arm but a series of compasses?
Peak art, an inspiration to us all
It’s honestly pretty good even though it’s rather simple. I look at some paintings from like the middle ages and wonder why no one seemed to actually learn to draw until more modern times. But there was definitely an artist in this cave individual.
I often wonder about that. The human brain didn’t significantly evolve for the past couple thousands of years. Yet, paintings we see from 2000 years ago often look like a toddler made them, with very bad proportions and perspective. Is the notion of perspective in drawing cultural?
Well, the Egyptians had the same art style pretty much unchanged for thousands of years. Archaeologists believe that their proportions were based on mathematics, and was probably taught as the only way to make art.
Many cultures have prioritized stylized art over realism.it’s definitely a matter of culture (just look at cartoons, they’re not proportional for shit and tend to avoid even reminding you that perspective exists), but also i think it’s a factor of who is drawing things.
If you’re a monk drawing stuff all day you’re probably not going to bother with anything you don’t have to, or that doesn’t entertain you.