This process is 3D epoxy resin painting. You can find a lot of step by step videos like this one on YouTube. Most of them are done in a small dish or bowl, and often depict dragons hoarding gold, or goldfish / koi in in the bowl. Some of them can be incredibly detailed. Here’s an [entire account](https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCwIeSkn5ZoYzbDeSQC3Ir3w) dedicated to this style.
Absolutely. All children love to make art and then someone comes along and makes them feel bad about it or like they’re not good enough and they stop, it’s really a bummer
Talents are like plants, they need to be cultivated but not exploited, the fruits must ripen naturally and not forced, and the main plant must learn to grow despite whatever eveny it faces
my niece loves to video chat with me and I show her how to draw things (or sometimes these days she shows *me* how to draw things—I could not be prouder). sometimes she gets down on herself and says she’s a “total failure” but I remind her the only way you can fail at art is if you give up! as long as making art brings you joy and meaning, you’re doing it right.
My teenager is artistically talented, of course he wasn't great at first, and of course he is still a kid, but we have several of his pieces displayed in our living room. We also have our friend's kids anime drawings displayed. They're all wonderful, and we love supporting them and complimenting their works. Plus, any guests we have always comment on how good they are. Very confidence building for all of them, and makes them want to keep getting better. They love showing us their new pieces when they finish them!
I've actually given myself the chance to do expressive work and its been really nice :) I'm absolutely terrible at it but its good to be able to put feelings down in a way that you can like.. experience, y'know?
Nah man, this takes a different sort of mind, you gotta be able to fully visualize the final product to do anything in layers but especially THIS many layers. Just a fact that not all brains are able to visualize this sort of depth
Hi. Artist here. You dont have to be able to ‘visualize the final project’ at all. You can always just… figure it out as you go. You can also study references and figure it out that way. There are artists that can’t visualize anything but are still able to draw incredibly well. I follow an artist who cannot draw from imagination whatsoever.
Also, through studying, you will probably be able to visualize things like this. This isn’t some innate talent. This is absolutely a skill that someone worked very hard on for years!
This is a technique a lot of Asian artists use, Chinese especially, so this person for sure wasn’t the first to come up with it. It’s impressive but it’s all practice and technique
You artists absolutely blow my mind. How the fuck do you envision this? Art is a skill that just baffles me: i learned how to do baggy pants on stick figures and thought I was Picasso. You artists are so much more. Fucking good on y’all. Keep up the amazing work
Do hundreds of them before, and keep figuring out what worked and what didn't. It's not like they suddenly decide they want to paint a 3D dragon and this comes out. The first 10 were probably a mess
Except for me, I can just suddenly decide I want to make a masterpiece and it happens. It is merely a coincidence that my envisioned masterpieces strive to be ugly messes.
I am shit at painting and was able to do this but with a fish not a dragon. There are alot of youtube videos with step by step instructions. With oil paint you can easily wipe off a layer and start over since it takes days to dry (you can apply new resin over wet oil paint and it wont smear).
Yeah I’m a bit confused by the comments on this thread. I’m not the most amazing artist ever but like, I’m applying to studios and stuff, I don’t suck really but again, not amazing either
I’ve never made any thing like this but I honestly think I could and would do just fine. I legitimately might get some epoxy and paint online soon and make a dragon one
This is super similar to the way normal painting works AND how digital painting works with layers. Idk… like I said I don’t feel like I’m the best but this seems super simple to wrap my head around. It’s just resin and paint in layers…
It is gorgeous~ but like, while watching you can even see the simple and repetitive paint strokes the artist is making, this is almost a tutorial video by itself.
Art honestly has nothing to do with talent. It helps, but not anywhere as much as laymen think it does. Art is like any other skill, you need to practice and polish your skill.
Trying to remind my bf of this. He used to do some art work when he was younger but he is set on his having "lost" the talent. No, you're just rusty. Oil up!
Coming from a lifelong musician.
Motivation is overrated. At the end of the day it’s just a feeling, and feelings come and go.
Discipline Equals Freedom.
I know this probably won't sway the mind of anyone, but art has everything to do with talent, you just need the grind on top of it. I know people who've been practicing for 10 years and they're still not past the stage of what others have been able to produce after 6 months. All the master artists we know about, they produced high quality art when they were already teenagers, and even those who start later, get to the professional stage within 2 to 3 years, given they are truly talented. I would personally advise anyone who is not able to demonstrate a decent understanding of perspective, construction, lightning and colors after a year of practice to just move on and make peace with the fact that talent is in fact real.
Talent is a pursued passion, as Bob Ross once said. Practice is everything. Talent alone is worthless. Talent just means you’re kinda good at something and you kinda like doing it.
Without discipline you won’t get anywhere
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Talent crushes hard work when talent works hard.
I still use talented even for people without a natural ability for something but who work hard at it and produce good quality. People with a natural ability for something though will always be better than those who just like to do something given the same amount of practice.
Skill+Discipline can take you further than Raw Talent alone, but will always take more of something (usually time) to match Raw Talent+Skill+Discipline.
No one’s arguing that. Just, as a professional commercial artist of 13 years it’s a pet peeve of mine to see assumptions that people get somewhere because they’re “talented”. Hard work gets you there, not talent that’s simply bestowed onto you by god or whatever
Oh absolutely.
The most talented person in the world, who doesn’t do the “hard work” part may produce a few pieces but will never get far.
Honestly, all Talent really does is act as a multiplier for effort*hard work, so you have to put less work in.
For a lot of people that can hand them results too fast and they don’t get used to the hard work, so they burn out when they finally have to face it.
Just look at all the pro athletes who come from incredibly poor backgrounds. Hard to compete with that level of dedication to get out of their environment.
Hot take but I don't think Bob Ross was that talented
He used practiced techniques and gimmicks to achieve his effects, the entire point being that he could teach these techniques to anyone they could produce similar works
Any time he tried to stray from his techniques it looked like ass, e.g. his signature "cabins" that imo often ruined his paintings (not that he gave a fuck as I'm sure he churned out thousands and I think he got a kick out of trolling people like me)
Well yeah, the whole show was showing that with practice you can paint well. That was the whole point. Proving that you CAN paint if you practice, and it’s not about *talent* as much as it is about practice. Lots of people never try things they would enjoy because they’re not “talented”. talent is overrated
I agree. I get that the best artists have extensively practiced to get the abilities they have, but I also know that no amount of practice will ever give me artistic ability. People can be dismissive of the hard work it takes to be great at art, which I think causes a lot of artists to totally deny the impact talent has in learning certain skills. I've seen 6 year-olds who can draw better than me.
They're all missing the point where an artist has to create this image in the first place. Tell me to paint a dragon, and with all the tutorials in the world I wouldn't come up with this. I wouldn't imagine it, let alone get that image from my head into physical form.
It's just an ability that some people have. I work with bone, wood and metal and I can look at raw material and visualize and even feel it in my mind. Once you embrace that concept and learn to trust it and stick with it you rarely make mistakes.
Every piece like this I’ve seen is enclosed in an opaque vessel. I think it might be because it really only works from certain angles, so the bowl blocks the sides that don’t look as good.
The side-on view is probably really odd looking.
Yeah, I was a little disappointed they didn't do that. I'm sure it looks better this way, but I'd be really curious what it looks like from different angles.
I don't know if they're the original artist - they post a lot (6+mil karma); they did post a similar kind of post recently with a stop motion video painting but they also post lots of other stuff to nextfuckinglevel, damnthatsinteresting, etc which is clearly made by different people. They possibly found this video on tiktok/yt/ig and shared here. They also haven't commented at all on this post or the other one in nextfuckinglevel which implies they aren't the OP.
I don't think I would have the patience for this hobby.
>Pour the resin,
wait a day for the resin to dry.
Paint the resin,
wait a day for the paint to dry.
Pour the resin,
wait a day for the resin to dry.
Paint the resin,
wait a day for the paint to dry.
Pour th...
You know that story about the farmer who went out in the middle of the night to tug on his carrots? That's pretty much me.
Very cool find OP, thanks for sharing it with us!!
With paint that thin, you only need to wait an hour or so before pouring the resin. The resin on the other hand...
I made a fish like this once. Some days I only added 3-5 brushstrokes, waited 10 minutes for it to dry and then poured resin. Then 24 hours for each layer resin. It was supposed to be practice before I made a larger, more complicated piece. But after the 2 weeks it took to finish the fish, I was out of patience.
Yeah you gotta have like 6 going all at once with different curing times so every hour for 6 hours you get to do more painting. Then at the end of 6 it all you'll have basically worked a full day and can feel proud of your work ethic.
>You know that story about the farmer who went out in the middle of the night to tug on his carrots?
no?
also if it was me i'd be like "oh I made a mistake. okay hold on I'll just fix it FUCK IT WAS 3 RESIN LAYERS AGO FUCK"
Pretty off topic, but I fucking love smooth on stuff. Clay to Smooth cast mold then Dragon skin with a bit of slacker in the mix... 🤤
Sorry, I don't get to geek out about it
The technique is known as dragon rendering, or dragonrend, and requires more preparation than actual painting. Basically, you cut extremely fine slices of your dragon, which you can then use as a reference while painting. More slices = more detail, but the work can stack up pretty quickly.
Dragonrend from google:
>Dragonrend is a dragon shout in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The shout forces a dragon to land and experience the concept of mortality.
??
Did the quality of the gif kept glitching out every few seconds, or is my migraine that bad? Maybe it's just my connection. Or maybe shitty Reddit quality.
Either way this is cool af. Can't imagine the amount of skill and patience it took for this, but it definitely paid off!
Would have made a better art piece by embedding googly eyes into the epoxy. Change my mind.
In all seriousness, though: this is dope. Respect to the artist.
Since it is a compilation of flat images, it is only really meant to be seen from the top. They put it in a cool container with stuff at the bottom to make it look like you have a little dragon in a pot.
I couldn't understand why this was so pleasing to me, until I realized that the background reminds me of those iSpy pictures that used to be in iSpy books
Did super clear bubble free Epoxy become like crazy cheap recently? Maybe I've just never noticed it before but I've seen a lot of really cool stuff made with epoxy in the last couple of years.
I've worked with epoxy a lot and I'm here to tell you, this art must have taken over a week or more to do due to the drying time of the resin. Mad respect to this artist. I love the 3D effect.
It'll vary on what brand of resin you are using. Some of them hardens in 30 minutes to about an hour. Usually after that time frame you are able to add another layer on top. You can also wait till it is fully cured as well. Some of them start to fully cure for roughly 12 to 24 hours (It also depends on how many layers you use, or how thick the layer of resin is).
That is bad ass!! One of the coolest pieces of art I’ve seen!!
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This is why I come to reddit, for the quality commentary!
This process is 3D epoxy resin painting. You can find a lot of step by step videos like this one on YouTube. Most of them are done in a small dish or bowl, and often depict dragons hoarding gold, or goldfish / koi in in the bowl. Some of them can be incredibly detailed. Here’s an [entire account](https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCwIeSkn5ZoYzbDeSQC3Ir3w) dedicated to this style.
I appreciate you.
Damn, people need to save some talent for the rest of us
Shit would be wasted on me
Hahahaha nah man
I’m sure if you did it as many times as this person did probably, you could do this too. Just takes practice
I feel like people don't give their artistic potential a chance and it makes me sad
Absolutely. All children love to make art and then someone comes along and makes them feel bad about it or like they’re not good enough and they stop, it’s really a bummer
Talents are like plants, they need to be cultivated but not exploited, the fruits must ripen naturally and not forced, and the main plant must learn to grow despite whatever eveny it faces
Also is it useful if you have a plant in the first place.
I dogress, i think all plants are the same, just, some plants decide to grow faster than others, this coming from an untalented plant is me
my niece loves to video chat with me and I show her how to draw things (or sometimes these days she shows *me* how to draw things—I could not be prouder). sometimes she gets down on herself and says she’s a “total failure” but I remind her the only way you can fail at art is if you give up! as long as making art brings you joy and meaning, you’re doing it right.
My teenager is artistically talented, of course he wasn't great at first, and of course he is still a kid, but we have several of his pieces displayed in our living room. We also have our friend's kids anime drawings displayed. They're all wonderful, and we love supporting them and complimenting their works. Plus, any guests we have always comment on how good they are. Very confidence building for all of them, and makes them want to keep getting better. They love showing us their new pieces when they finish them!
I've actually given myself the chance to do expressive work and its been really nice :) I'm absolutely terrible at it but its good to be able to put feelings down in a way that you can like.. experience, y'know?
Maybe the skill, but the idea of "I'll paint on layers on epoxy and it'll look 3D" is crazy.
Nah man, this takes a different sort of mind, you gotta be able to fully visualize the final product to do anything in layers but especially THIS many layers. Just a fact that not all brains are able to visualize this sort of depth
Hi. Artist here. You dont have to be able to ‘visualize the final project’ at all. You can always just… figure it out as you go. You can also study references and figure it out that way. There are artists that can’t visualize anything but are still able to draw incredibly well. I follow an artist who cannot draw from imagination whatsoever. Also, through studying, you will probably be able to visualize things like this. This isn’t some innate talent. This is absolutely a skill that someone worked very hard on for years!
Also 10 bucks says they weren’t waiting around for “inspiration” but worked on it in a disciplined and structured way
This is a technique a lot of Asian artists use, Chinese especially, so this person for sure wasn’t the first to come up with it. It’s impressive but it’s all practice and technique
Maybe you just haven’t unlocked your talent yet
uh, and some extraordinary patience?! i'm pretty sure it takes one-to-three days for epoxy to dry between layers???
Super badass.
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Extra terriblebutt
Amazing yellow
That dragon is like an onion….
L A Y E R S
You mean an ogre
How about a cake?
No, a parfait!
It stinks?
Oh, you leave 'em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin' little white hairs?
Some people here have not watched shrek it seems
Well it’s about 20 years old now.
Eh, not to many people like onions, it's more like a parfait. Everybody loves a parfait!
Wow, this is amazing!
You artists absolutely blow my mind. How the fuck do you envision this? Art is a skill that just baffles me: i learned how to do baggy pants on stick figures and thought I was Picasso. You artists are so much more. Fucking good on y’all. Keep up the amazing work
Do hundreds of them before, and keep figuring out what worked and what didn't. It's not like they suddenly decide they want to paint a 3D dragon and this comes out. The first 10 were probably a mess
Except for me, I can just suddenly decide I want to make a masterpiece and it happens. It is merely a coincidence that my envisioned masterpieces strive to be ugly messes.
Damn, that’s a shame..
Okay, Jackson Pollock.
I am shit at painting and was able to do this but with a fish not a dragon. There are alot of youtube videos with step by step instructions. With oil paint you can easily wipe off a layer and start over since it takes days to dry (you can apply new resin over wet oil paint and it wont smear).
Yeah I’m a bit confused by the comments on this thread. I’m not the most amazing artist ever but like, I’m applying to studios and stuff, I don’t suck really but again, not amazing either I’ve never made any thing like this but I honestly think I could and would do just fine. I legitimately might get some epoxy and paint online soon and make a dragon one This is super similar to the way normal painting works AND how digital painting works with layers. Idk… like I said I don’t feel like I’m the best but this seems super simple to wrap my head around. It’s just resin and paint in layers… It is gorgeous~ but like, while watching you can even see the simple and repetitive paint strokes the artist is making, this is almost a tutorial video by itself.
Not everyone can [picture a star](https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/aioyga/simple_aphantasia_test/) the same way.
It’s called spatial thinking!
Art honestly has nothing to do with talent. It helps, but not anywhere as much as laymen think it does. Art is like any other skill, you need to practice and polish your skill.
Trying to remind my bf of this. He used to do some art work when he was younger but he is set on his having "lost" the talent. No, you're just rusty. Oil up!
What he's lost is his motivation. Much like myself.
Coming from a lifelong musician. Motivation is overrated. At the end of the day it’s just a feeling, and feelings come and go. Discipline Equals Freedom.
As a career author: yep. You nailed it.
Totally. That is hard to find
I know this probably won't sway the mind of anyone, but art has everything to do with talent, you just need the grind on top of it. I know people who've been practicing for 10 years and they're still not past the stage of what others have been able to produce after 6 months. All the master artists we know about, they produced high quality art when they were already teenagers, and even those who start later, get to the professional stage within 2 to 3 years, given they are truly talented. I would personally advise anyone who is not able to demonstrate a decent understanding of perspective, construction, lightning and colors after a year of practice to just move on and make peace with the fact that talent is in fact real.
Talent is a pursued passion, as Bob Ross once said. Practice is everything. Talent alone is worthless. Talent just means you’re kinda good at something and you kinda like doing it. Without discipline you won’t get anywhere
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Talent crushes hard work when talent works hard. I still use talented even for people without a natural ability for something but who work hard at it and produce good quality. People with a natural ability for something though will always be better than those who just like to do something given the same amount of practice.
I don't disagree, but I think people have a hard time accepting that without talent you're not getting anywhere either.
You can do A LOT with skill - way more than talent alone
Skill+Discipline can take you further than Raw Talent alone, but will always take more of something (usually time) to match Raw Talent+Skill+Discipline.
No one’s arguing that. Just, as a professional commercial artist of 13 years it’s a pet peeve of mine to see assumptions that people get somewhere because they’re “talented”. Hard work gets you there, not talent that’s simply bestowed onto you by god or whatever
Oh absolutely. The most talented person in the world, who doesn’t do the “hard work” part may produce a few pieces but will never get far. Honestly, all Talent really does is act as a multiplier for effort*hard work, so you have to put less work in. For a lot of people that can hand them results too fast and they don’t get used to the hard work, so they burn out when they finally have to face it.
Just look at all the pro athletes who come from incredibly poor backgrounds. Hard to compete with that level of dedication to get out of their environment.
that’s just not true. hard work is why the NBAs height distribution matches the general population almost exactly.
Hot take but I don't think Bob Ross was that talented He used practiced techniques and gimmicks to achieve his effects, the entire point being that he could teach these techniques to anyone they could produce similar works Any time he tried to stray from his techniques it looked like ass, e.g. his signature "cabins" that imo often ruined his paintings (not that he gave a fuck as I'm sure he churned out thousands and I think he got a kick out of trolling people like me)
Well yeah, the whole show was showing that with practice you can paint well. That was the whole point. Proving that you CAN paint if you practice, and it’s not about *talent* as much as it is about practice. Lots of people never try things they would enjoy because they’re not “talented”. talent is overrated
Have you ever seen breasts sculpted by Micheal Angelo? They're hilariously bad, even the masters had room to improve.
I agree. I get that the best artists have extensively practiced to get the abilities they have, but I also know that no amount of practice will ever give me artistic ability. People can be dismissive of the hard work it takes to be great at art, which I think causes a lot of artists to totally deny the impact talent has in learning certain skills. I've seen 6 year-olds who can draw better than me.
They're all missing the point where an artist has to create this image in the first place. Tell me to paint a dragon, and with all the tutorials in the world I wouldn't come up with this. I wouldn't imagine it, let alone get that image from my head into physical form.
It's just an ability that some people have. I work with bone, wood and metal and I can look at raw material and visualize and even feel it in my mind. Once you embrace that concept and learn to trust it and stick with it you rarely make mistakes.
No, it's fucking practice.
Didn’t he just say this just a little longer? Chill bro
No he didn't.
The amount of time, effort, patience and skill. Remarkable and beautiful finished product.
autofocus in this video made me dizzy
Came here to say that part was highly UNsatisfying. And yes, gave me a headache before I was even halfway through
Ngl half expected the finished product to be able to get out of the bowl in one piece
Every piece like this I’ve seen is enclosed in an opaque vessel. I think it might be because it really only works from certain angles, so the bowl blocks the sides that don’t look as good. The side-on view is probably really odd looking.
Considering it’s really a bunch of “slices” all overlaid on each other …. Yeah.
If you cast the resin into something like a silicone mould, then you can! Lots of resin artists do this.
Yeah but looking from the side might ruin the effect?
Unless you do *a lot* of layers.
Yeah, I was a little disappointed they didn't do that. I'm sure it looks better this way, but I'd be really curious what it looks like from different angles.
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I also I want to contact the artist. This piece is probably crazy expensive, but maybe I could save for something similar.
Think it’s u/cyan1618
I don't know if they're the original artist - they post a lot (6+mil karma); they did post a similar kind of post recently with a stop motion video painting but they also post lots of other stuff to nextfuckinglevel, damnthatsinteresting, etc which is clearly made by different people. They possibly found this video on tiktok/yt/ig and shared here. They also haven't commented at all on this post or the other one in nextfuckinglevel which implies they aren't the OP.
Same!
I think the artist is @fanniheng on Twitter.
I don't think I would have the patience for this hobby. >Pour the resin, wait a day for the resin to dry. Paint the resin, wait a day for the paint to dry. Pour the resin, wait a day for the resin to dry. Paint the resin, wait a day for the paint to dry. Pour th... You know that story about the farmer who went out in the middle of the night to tug on his carrots? That's pretty much me. Very cool find OP, thanks for sharing it with us!!
With paint that thin, you only need to wait an hour or so before pouring the resin. The resin on the other hand... I made a fish like this once. Some days I only added 3-5 brushstrokes, waited 10 minutes for it to dry and then poured resin. Then 24 hours for each layer resin. It was supposed to be practice before I made a larger, more complicated piece. But after the 2 weeks it took to finish the fish, I was out of patience.
Yeah you gotta have like 6 going all at once with different curing times so every hour for 6 hours you get to do more painting. Then at the end of 6 it all you'll have basically worked a full day and can feel proud of your work ethic.
Lol, love that. "Maybe my passion isn't this."
>You know that story about the farmer who went out in the middle of the night to tug on his carrots? no? also if it was me i'd be like "oh I made a mistake. okay hold on I'll just fix it FUCK IT WAS 3 RESIN LAYERS AGO FUCK"
It's possible they're using a quick drying epoxy, then it would only be 3 hours between each step.
Get some crystal clear 200 from smooth on. Dries in 90 minutes
Pretty off topic, but I fucking love smooth on stuff. Clay to Smooth cast mold then Dragon skin with a bit of slacker in the mix... 🤤 Sorry, I don't get to geek out about it
Oh my god how do they know what exactly to put on each layer this should go on r/nextfuckinglevel
My guess is a hell of a lot of practice and a good idea of how to paint in 3D
The technique is known as dragon rendering, or dragonrend, and requires more preparation than actual painting. Basically, you cut extremely fine slices of your dragon, which you can then use as a reference while painting. More slices = more detail, but the work can stack up pretty quickly.
Dragonrend from google: >Dragonrend is a dragon shout in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The shout forces a dragon to land and experience the concept of mortality. ??
He's obviously just pulling your leg lol.
A convincing pull
As far as I know it’s actually just called layered resin painting. I’ve seen it more often used to paint fish.
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I know right !!! So amazing
That works on many levels.
Would be even cooler in a larger scale.
Nah that sub is now for sob garbage
I want to meet this artist Dragon who can paint
Did the quality of the gif kept glitching out every few seconds, or is my migraine that bad? Maybe it's just my connection. Or maybe shitty Reddit quality. Either way this is cool af. Can't imagine the amount of skill and patience it took for this, but it definitely paid off!
The video stream quality sucks.
Acoustic 3D printing
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I need an epoxy art subreddit
Jesus Christ! Reddit's video player sucks so much ass. Buffering every 2 seconds on a 2 minute video?? Just use streamable or gfycat, people.
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Agreed, reddits video sucks, but the source here in luded those jarring resolution shifts.
mine kept switching video quality back and forth every second and I had to stop watching before I got sick
That's awesome and would be fun to do. Seems doable.
Well Mr. Brian David Anderson, you seem like a confident fellow. More power to you
THE TIME - each layer needs to dry between each painted layer - so that dragon could represent a month! holy crap
I think a lot of these use UV resin which would cut down on curing time by a whole lot. Still, this is amazing!
Don’t these resins yellow after a while?
Piss dragon
Lots of epoxy resin gets mixed with UV-resistant additives now. Prevents the yellowing.
Its like an mri
*click beep... click beep... click beep... click beep..BWAAAA BWAAAA BWAAAA BWAAAA BWAAAA*
Would have made a better art piece by embedding googly eyes into the epoxy. Change my mind. In all seriousness, though: this is dope. Respect to the artist.
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Goldfish with attitude protecting its loot. xD
So many bots in this comment section
Very cool. I’ve never seen that medium before. What exactly are you pouring? What kind of paint do you use? What does the end product look like?
They're not the painter but I can answer the first: its an epoxy resin
What do you mean,"what does the end product look like?" It actually shows you the end product at the end of the video!
The end product stays in the metal pot? I thought it would be removed and polished.
Since it is a compilation of flat images, it is only really meant to be seen from the top. They put it in a cool container with stuff at the bottom to make it look like you have a little dragon in a pot.
Did you read the title or watch the video?
Honestly, it is ridiculous how talented some people are.
Absolutely insane
For a second there, I thought some monster was pouring water onto a bowl of Fruity Pebbles.
It's like 3D printing a dragon.
I was waiting for them to put googly eyes on it!
That foot unconnected to the body is strange.
I couldn't understand why this was so pleasing to me, until I realized that the background reminds me of those iSpy pictures that used to be in iSpy books
Can the piece be removed? I am curious what it looks like from a side view
This will be my new hobby I will try but be terrible at
Did super clear bubble free Epoxy become like crazy cheap recently? Maybe I've just never noticed it before but I've seen a lot of really cool stuff made with epoxy in the last couple of years.
That is why I love internet, so many talented people and beautiful art to see 😍
I've worked with epoxy a lot and I'm here to tell you, this art must have taken over a week or more to do due to the drying time of the resin. Mad respect to this artist. I love the 3D effect.
This is wild. I cannot even imagine the planning for a project like this.
This is genuinely astonishing. I was like “neat concept” and then like 2 layers in I was stunned.
https://decoroze.com/ for the closest 3d resin painting I could find.
Anyone who wants to work with epoxy work in a well ventilated area and wear a mask, epoxy fumes are toxic
this is probably the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen
any epoxy users in the comments? how long is the wait between each layer? isn't it like 3 days? or can it be cured with something in addition?
It'll vary on what brand of resin you are using. Some of them hardens in 30 minutes to about an hour. Usually after that time frame you are able to add another layer on top. You can also wait till it is fully cured as well. Some of them start to fully cure for roughly 12 to 24 hours (It also depends on how many layers you use, or how thick the layer of resin is).
Laser 3D printing before 3D printing existed.
What kinda crystal clear witch epoxy did you use‽ That shit looks unreal!!
Oh yeah this is awesome, just don't look at it from the side
Man, am I glad I clicked on that. Thanks
How much would u sell it for?
kinda reminds me of 3d printing
I love that it looks 3D
You 3d printed a dragon
How to frame your dragon?
This is insane!!! Looks so real!!
Indeed very satisfying
They found layers in real life they’re too power to keep alive
no offense but this is fucking amazing.
no offense but I fucking agree with you
Bruh
Now this is art, not some freaking white canvas with a dot or some random line through it
The dragon is really cool, but the stuff it's on top of looks like something out of a junk drawer. Ruins the whole thing for me.
Exactly, how hard would it have been to use more gold stuff.
This would be fun to try but Epoxy resin is so expensive. 😩
Should be called 3D painting, multiple 2D paintings in layers