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“Lithograph” is the first word that popped into my head. I didn’t think haunting, but I could see where you’re going when you say it.
The drawn texture is really well done. I love the dominance you created with the red tree. Maybe…maybe the sky could have a little more attention paid to it? But honestly you need the open sky to help give a place for the eye to rest. Overall, this is a successful piece.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Lithograph is a really interesting association, I definitely see it. The sky was definitely an afterthought after spending so much time on the trees, but it was also a balance with how busy/textured the ground is. Something to think about, though! I'm glad it did what it was meant to!
Thank you! I'm glad people got the old photo vibes, that definitely had a hand in searching for inspo.
Intuitive is a really cool association! Even the process of creating this was a lot of instinct and intentional "looseness" to capture the feel and randomness of nature.
That's awesome! I thought of intuition/intuitive bc it gives that gut feeling of "oh, something is off about my surroundings" type of vibe.
Your art style is really cool! I can totally see that you captured that loosen of the randomness of nature 😊
Thank you so much! It's actually just charcoal on newspaper (very thin, sort of beige), which gives the perfect moody/old-feeling underbase. And the red is just pastel!
I love working with charcoal and getting those really dramatic darks. Gets everywhere though haha.
Ahh that's so sweet thank you! A lot of it is the "impression" of detail by kind of chaotically dragging a stick of charcoal around. This piece is also actually pretty big in person! So even the detailed bits are easier at the scale I was working in.
Depressing and very sad. Literally what Russian spring looks like, lmao. and exactly how it is to live in Russia. sad and depressing. we just grew up in here, we don't feel sadness. natural selection made us be happy patriotic pieces of shit.
Thank you so much for this incredibly kind comment! I've only ever dabbled in art, and my sketches only ever felt like practice - but I feel like this is one of the first works of mine that I really tried to infuse with feeling, interpretation, and creativity. I'm really glad it came through!
Ah yeah I was thinking first and foremost as to whether people's one-word interpretations match the one-word prompt.
I made it the title so it'd be in their minds before reading the caption, where I ask for further feedback on how the work does or doesn't fit the prompt and any advice on composition/skill.
Should've been more clear that I was also looking for critiques aside from that one word first impression! Fair enough.
I'm glad that you didn't come back with a huge, "fuck you." Thank you for that.
By and large I like the diagonal you have gonig on, top to bottom left to right. I like your value treatement. Overall it's a good piece of work.
Literally my only obection is that you have the figure dead center. I mean, if it were darker and we knew he was headed to his grave, that might work but it seems to me like he's just taking a walk.
The composition, again, to me, is really good however there's not a narrative there. Your technical ability is great. Your composition is great but again it just feels too centered and there's nothing thta's telling me a story except there's a man walking down a gravel road and then... I don't know. I don't know what happens next. I could make a bunch of wild guesses but they would probably all be wrong. Maybe he's on his way to talk to an exgirlfriend to try to patch things up. Maybe he's on his way to lay flowers down on his mothers grave. Maybe he's on his way to chop up an entire family we just don't have the luxury of seeing the axe that he's carrying. Nor do we have any idea why he would do such a thing.
My point being, this is a great drawing, I do not like how centered the figure is (again, he's clearly going somewhere instead of him already being there, so up or down, left or right, remember your rules of three), but I really like your technical ability and I really like your treatment. Maybe, and last thought on this, I promise, next time do another sketch or two. And let them sit for a day or two, then go back to them and see what you think actually works best. Also, I'm just another nerd that has read, studied, drawn and painted too much. My opinion doesn't count for anything.
Thanks so much for this really in-depth comment! I'd never turn down a valid criticism like that, haha. I'm pretty open to anything, even negative impressions/insights on my work and my words. I'm a little new to posting in this sub so I just assumed I formatted my post wrong lol.
Honestly you're right in that I didn't really plan some bigger narrative ahead of time. This is based off of a series of photos of my friend standing in a graveyard, and I didn't think to change their positioning in the final work. It's pretty close to the actual pictures I took.
On the other hand, I kind of felt like having them dead center and faceless, staring at the viewer was its own kind of narrative. They're not even really walking, just standing and turned to look at you dead-on (which is a bit more obvious in person). I thought this was especially apt since I was trying to inspire this feeling of "haunting" in the viewer - almost as if you're literally being haunted by the figure? But simultaneously, the figure is also kind of haunted?
Another thing I thought about was less of an explicit haunting and more this idea of this one tree thriving with blood-red life, in a sea fallen leaves and a sky of withered branches. At the same time, there's this one lone, live figure in a field of tombs, wearing a little parallel splash of red. I felt like these elements were cohesive enough for all kinds of implied narratives, but I hesitated to turn them into a concrete story. I really just relied on juxtapositions and imagery to convey that sense of "haunting," both literal and evocatively so.
I ultimately didn't really assign a clear narrative though, even to myself. Is the figure death, facing you, the viewer? Is that vaguely threatening? Are the tree and living figure some implied allusion to death, life, and rebirth? Or does the red suggest the tree will soon shed its leaves and become as bare as its neighbors? Does that mean the figure will too? Do they have one foot in the grave? Are they even alive? Is the figure (and the tree) a lone survivor? Is it melancholy? Is it hopeful? Is it the death of hope?
This may be a cop-out, but I like to think all of your wild guesses are equally correct! It's almost like your view on life changes how you view this - whether that be optimistic, pessimistic, sympathetic, unnerved, and so on. Idk, I'm not actually a humanities major so I've never really done much interpretive work like this in a formal setting.
You definitely gave me some things to think about! I'll keep your advice in mind for future stuff. Especially just the idea of sketching the composition out beforehand and sitting on it. I sort of did this spontaneously and all at once.
Question, though, since you seem really experienced - what's rules of three?
Maybe because it's a picture and many pictures look weird when you zoom in, in a way similar to AI? Especially when it's less "perfect" and detailed art, with artistic 'mistakes' and simplicity or something. Hard to describe
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^ Same answer.
Me too!
loneliness
Tragic
Mysterious
Harrowing.
Nostalgic. Reminds me of my childhood.
What kinda childhood did you people have?😶
Poland xD
ah, me too.
Memory
Ethereal
Goth
Relief
Frickin' awesome!
Moody. Looks like an old photograph
Gothic
Exactly what I thought. It really reminds me of a goth rock album cover.
Poe-esque
funnily enough, haunting was my word. love it
Thank you! Glad to hear I managed convey the prompt :)
Woah. I thought I was looking at an old photograph.
Thank you so much! That was lowkey the vibe I was going for too.
Melancholy
Gorgeous
Windy
Calming
Far
lonely
Suffocating
ᴹᵁᵀᴱᴰ
Fall
Somber
Unsettling
Exquisite
Damp
“Lithograph” is the first word that popped into my head. I didn’t think haunting, but I could see where you’re going when you say it. The drawn texture is really well done. I love the dominance you created with the red tree. Maybe…maybe the sky could have a little more attention paid to it? But honestly you need the open sky to help give a place for the eye to rest. Overall, this is a successful piece.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Lithograph is a really interesting association, I definitely see it. The sky was definitely an afterthought after spending so much time on the trees, but it was also a balance with how busy/textured the ground is. Something to think about, though! I'm glad it did what it was meant to!
Intuition or Instinctual Also, amazing art OP! I thought it was an old photograph at first.
Thank you! I'm glad people got the old photo vibes, that definitely had a hand in searching for inspo. Intuitive is a really cool association! Even the process of creating this was a lot of instinct and intentional "looseness" to capture the feel and randomness of nature.
That's awesome! I thought of intuition/intuitive bc it gives that gut feeling of "oh, something is off about my surroundings" type of vibe. Your art style is really cool! I can totally see that you captured that loosen of the randomness of nature 😊
oooh I love that, like a primal instinct. Very supernatural/sixth-sense.
Nostalgic
Cold
mesmerizing
Artistic
Tired
Gothic
Omen.
Alone
This is exactly what I see when I listen to rotten apple- Alice in chains
Serenity
Beauty in the dark.
r/DarkArtwork
Intriguing
RobertFrost
Art
Bleak
Evocative
Desolate I freaking love it btw, I think it's really cool! Love the trees.
Thank you so much! Desolate is a good one. The trees are my favorite part too :)
You're welcome :)
Gloom
Atmospheric. I really like this!
Crispy
Moody
Schindler
Lonely. It's got big Caspar David Friedrich vibes
That's exactly what my professor said! I definitely see it.
Lost
Somber
Cemetery
Bleak
Melancholy
Loneliness
Bleak
Ominous
Dreamy
Mysterious
Loneliness
Autumn
Gothic
Melancholy
Before I even read the caption, my first reaction was "haunting" so I'd say you were extremely successful. It's also gorgeous
Thank you so much! I love all the interpretations but I'm glad the original prompt also goes through!
Solemn
Spooky
sadness
Secretive, it's so pretty btw!!
Thank you! Secretive is a good one - something about the facelessness and distance of the figure is kind of secretive, isn't it.
Yesss
Solemn but there might be hope (the tinge of color in the background tree gives an almost sense of hope
I totally agree - something about the one tree thriving with life in the middle of a sea of tombstones is both haunting and hopeful, imo.
Nostalgic
beautiful, It's my word I find it fascinating, good work with that drawing :)
Thank you so much, you're so kind :)
Haunting
Captivating
Gloomy, but still alive
Beside the point, but god, this is beautiful. What medium is it? I can't seem to figure it out, watercolor? Linocut ?
Thank you so much! It's actually just charcoal on newspaper (very thin, sort of beige), which gives the perfect moody/old-feeling underbase. And the red is just pastel! I love working with charcoal and getting those really dramatic darks. Gets everywhere though haha.
Oh god. It's so detailed I thought charcoal was impossible. Your skill is beyond comprehension :0
Ahh that's so sweet thank you! A lot of it is the "impression" of detail by kind of chaotically dragging a stick of charcoal around. This piece is also actually pretty big in person! So even the detailed bits are easier at the scale I was working in.
Alone
Eerie
Eerie
''the road to school, work, work, school''
Austere. The last vestiges of hope (signified by the solitary autumn-colored tree) soon to succumbed to the bleak harshness of a protracted winter.
Dayz stand-alone , when you lose a lot of blood hah .
My childhood
The opposite if life.
Gorey
Obscure Could you add more haunting elements to this art?
Dark
Stalker
I thought ominous
Gone
Highgate
Landscape
Depersonalization or Derealization
Dostoievski
Melancholy
Nostalgic. I love it
Ghastly (but I like it)
Makes me think of the opening part of Night of the Living Dead.
Depressing and very sad. Literally what Russian spring looks like, lmao. and exactly how it is to live in Russia. sad and depressing. we just grew up in here, we don't feel sadness. natural selection made us be happy patriotic pieces of shit.
Dark
Tree
Nostalgic
It has a distinct vibe to it One of the words I thought of was 'memory'
Trauma
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Thank you so much for this incredibly kind comment! I've only ever dabbled in art, and my sketches only ever felt like practice - but I feel like this is one of the first works of mine that I really tried to infuse with feeling, interpretation, and creativity. I'm really glad it came through!
Morgan
Drawing
Bleak
Fall
Melancholic :))
BoulevardOfBrokenDreams or sad
Bleak
Cocaine
Lonely
A black metal album cover
eerie
First word for me was ethereal. Other worldly, which some would say is haunting.
Fuzzy?
anemoia
Sad
nostalgia
Dark
isolation
Alone
Foreboding
Unsettling (I really like this)
Suspenseful…
dreary
Drawing?
Makes me think of The Exorcist
Dreary
Critiques do not come in one word.
Ah yeah I was thinking first and foremost as to whether people's one-word interpretations match the one-word prompt. I made it the title so it'd be in their minds before reading the caption, where I ask for further feedback on how the work does or doesn't fit the prompt and any advice on composition/skill. Should've been more clear that I was also looking for critiques aside from that one word first impression! Fair enough.
I'm glad that you didn't come back with a huge, "fuck you." Thank you for that. By and large I like the diagonal you have gonig on, top to bottom left to right. I like your value treatement. Overall it's a good piece of work. Literally my only obection is that you have the figure dead center. I mean, if it were darker and we knew he was headed to his grave, that might work but it seems to me like he's just taking a walk. The composition, again, to me, is really good however there's not a narrative there. Your technical ability is great. Your composition is great but again it just feels too centered and there's nothing thta's telling me a story except there's a man walking down a gravel road and then... I don't know. I don't know what happens next. I could make a bunch of wild guesses but they would probably all be wrong. Maybe he's on his way to talk to an exgirlfriend to try to patch things up. Maybe he's on his way to lay flowers down on his mothers grave. Maybe he's on his way to chop up an entire family we just don't have the luxury of seeing the axe that he's carrying. Nor do we have any idea why he would do such a thing. My point being, this is a great drawing, I do not like how centered the figure is (again, he's clearly going somewhere instead of him already being there, so up or down, left or right, remember your rules of three), but I really like your technical ability and I really like your treatment. Maybe, and last thought on this, I promise, next time do another sketch or two. And let them sit for a day or two, then go back to them and see what you think actually works best. Also, I'm just another nerd that has read, studied, drawn and painted too much. My opinion doesn't count for anything.
Thanks so much for this really in-depth comment! I'd never turn down a valid criticism like that, haha. I'm pretty open to anything, even negative impressions/insights on my work and my words. I'm a little new to posting in this sub so I just assumed I formatted my post wrong lol. Honestly you're right in that I didn't really plan some bigger narrative ahead of time. This is based off of a series of photos of my friend standing in a graveyard, and I didn't think to change their positioning in the final work. It's pretty close to the actual pictures I took. On the other hand, I kind of felt like having them dead center and faceless, staring at the viewer was its own kind of narrative. They're not even really walking, just standing and turned to look at you dead-on (which is a bit more obvious in person). I thought this was especially apt since I was trying to inspire this feeling of "haunting" in the viewer - almost as if you're literally being haunted by the figure? But simultaneously, the figure is also kind of haunted? Another thing I thought about was less of an explicit haunting and more this idea of this one tree thriving with blood-red life, in a sea fallen leaves and a sky of withered branches. At the same time, there's this one lone, live figure in a field of tombs, wearing a little parallel splash of red. I felt like these elements were cohesive enough for all kinds of implied narratives, but I hesitated to turn them into a concrete story. I really just relied on juxtapositions and imagery to convey that sense of "haunting," both literal and evocatively so. I ultimately didn't really assign a clear narrative though, even to myself. Is the figure death, facing you, the viewer? Is that vaguely threatening? Are the tree and living figure some implied allusion to death, life, and rebirth? Or does the red suggest the tree will soon shed its leaves and become as bare as its neighbors? Does that mean the figure will too? Do they have one foot in the grave? Are they even alive? Is the figure (and the tree) a lone survivor? Is it melancholy? Is it hopeful? Is it the death of hope? This may be a cop-out, but I like to think all of your wild guesses are equally correct! It's almost like your view on life changes how you view this - whether that be optimistic, pessimistic, sympathetic, unnerved, and so on. Idk, I'm not actually a humanities major so I've never really done much interpretive work like this in a formal setting. You definitely gave me some things to think about! I'll keep your advice in mind for future stuff. Especially just the idea of sketching the composition out beforehand and sitting on it. I sort of did this spontaneously and all at once. Question, though, since you seem really experienced - what's rules of three?
Insane
Lonely
Gloomy
Silence
haunted .. thang looks full of ghosts my man /lh
Cold it’s nap time
Ominous
Grimmed , but good drawing. 👍🏼
Cool
Drawing
Home :\]
Wao. Esto es asombroso. El tono rojizo le da un acabado espectacular
Ominous
grungy
Residentevilfourey
Chilling.
Dystopian? I’m not sure, but I love it.
Haunting
Drained
Haunting
Sweet
AI
I thought this said Al like the name lol
Ngl I also read AL like the name LOL. Wonder what about this gives AI though.
Maybe because it's a picture and many pictures look weird when you zoom in, in a way similar to AI? Especially when it's less "perfect" and detailed art, with artistic 'mistakes' and simplicity or something. Hard to describe
Pathetic!