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Wanted to see how I could do in comparison. Here’s my doodle:
unironically I’m kinda proud of it. Thought I’d do worse
that you are, Unga Bunga the 3rd. That you are…
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
It’s the same picture.
The amazing paintings in that cave don’t stop there.
And then you look at paintings from the Middle Ages and wonder how people evolved backwards
Holy shit… that is incredible. Thank you for the insight! I never knew and am at a bit at a loss for words — just… awe
I’ve known about Chauvet cave for years, and I’m still in awe every time I see a picture of it. To think most images in this cave are around 35,000 years old. Human history (written history) is maybe 6,000 years old. This is more than 5 times older than that. Humans existed, and were creating things like this, for 30,000 years before the written word.
Pablo Picasso visited the Lascaux Cave (also in France, but much younger), and said the following:
“We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years.”
― Pablo PicassoI linked this above, but check out Cave of Forgotten Dreams documentary on this cave.
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?
Yes, this is that one.
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?”
Look for a documentary called “Cave Of Forgotten Dreams” by Werner Herzog, about this cave.
Damn man. At least they made the art they had banging around in their skulls.
Meanwhile I can’t do a thing I’ve got so much reference material for because “what if it’s not just the way I want”
you dumb bitch you can fix it if it sucks holy shit.
Edit: I wonder if cave painters had issues with… not properly representing their vision… their visions were… more bison shaped then, but all the same…
Lol, now I’m imagining 200 feet from this cave is the Cave of Initial Sketches.
I wonder if they did a lot of drawings in dirt to get practice.
Looks like it was done using the spline tool.
I think it looks like it was painted with a thump, I was staring at it in amazement for a couple of minutes
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?
The old masters of art.
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.
