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.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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I see pixels before brush strokes. Like pixelated brush strokes
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.
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. :/
I'm in this comment and I don't like 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.
Wow ..just like ....damn
It's also a-panting.
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
Amazing!
Good lord, people, you can tell it's a painting if you zoom in. "Is this butterfly AI?" on everything was bad enough!
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.
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.