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Pretty impressive. Just keeps pounding the 10,000 hrs rule into my head. I need to make a program a day for 9 years.
Indeed. It's all too easy (for me) to fall off the horse and all too hard to get back on.
His initial drawing are much, much better than anything I could currently muster.
Have you tried? I used to draw, a lot . As much as this guy but I was a lot younger. People often told me the same thing "I couldn't even draw a cup that looks like a cup!" Sometimes I'd get them to try and if they were a little bit patient they drew something that looked a lot like the first drawing of that mug (Usually not including the shading). I'm fairly confident that most people could draw that first mug if th…
How is this relevant to HN?
I need to build a bot that detects and replies to these comments: "Because n people voted it so. 'On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.'"
Can someone convert this into a readable format? The image hosting appears to be spotty, it's on a message board, it's paginated, the dates are unclear, there are now hundreds of comments congratulating the guy, etc. etc. etc.
A very important thing worth noting is he switched from mostly digital art to completely traditional; there is just no matching with a tablet/mouse what one can do with real materials.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/markerdmann.com/paintings.tar
The naming format is "page_X_image_X.jpg".
EDIT:
Here's a video slideshow of the images:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/markerdmann.com/Paintings.mov http://vimeo.com/29510470
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Have you tried? I used to draw, a lot . As much as this guy but I was a lot younger. People often told me the same thing "I couldn't even draw a cup that looks like a cup!" Sometimes I'd get them to try and if they were a little bit patient they drew something that looked a lot like the first drawing of that mug (Usually not including the shading). I'm fairly confident that most people could draw that first mug if th…
No, I haven't really tried (because I'm not interested in it). I realize now that this guy probably practiced a lot before the initial posts on that forum thread, but I was just pointing out that his initial attempts are always significantly better than what my initial attempts would be.
Obtaining the rest is just time and passion.
I found the detail on this face: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2660638&... to be really good. If you go to later posts you can see how the painting evolves.
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Have you tried? I used to draw, a lot . As much as this guy but I was a lot younger. People often told me the same thing "I couldn't even draw a cup that looks like a cup!" Sometimes I'd get them to try and if they were a little bit patient they drew something that looked a lot like the first drawing of that mug (Usually not including the shading). I'm fairly confident that most people could draw that first mug if th…
I'm fairly confident most people could do most things if they really wanted to, but it seems like most people don't. This is partially a function of time—no one has the time to do everything in the world—but I do wonder about the people who seemingly don't do anything well, or who don't believe they can do anything well. It often seems like they haven't really tried.