Diputs

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

bit idea: people suddenly start using the term "redpilled" to refer to people who have read communist theory and nothing else

when other people say that it means something else they just respond with utter confusion and reaffirm that it refers to people who read communist theory and it has no other meaning

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I love pieces where people are just chilling with skeletons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would say it is the beauty of creativity itself, many species on the planet have also developed higher cognition and employ limited forms of creativity for survival or even recreational purposes, but humanity is unique in its ability and drive to manifest creativity into diverse and complex forms. Some forms can be as immaterial as sound waves or as long lasting as architectural design, the human drive for creation will always persist. While art is the culmination of a person's ideas, skills, innumerable experiences and creativity the results are also never constrained to be representative of such grandness, a canvas of abstract colors is as valid of an art piece as a page of simple sketches, a portrait painted in a realistic style or handprints on a wall. I would say it is as close of a representation of "soul" as one can get.

One of the reasons I got radicalized was because of how antithetical art is to the conditions imposed by the capitalist mode of production.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

bit idea: new movement for gender equality from liberals, but it is to change the term 'landlady' in the dictionary into 'landempress' for equality with the male term 'landlord'

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Let's not forget the greatest 'freedom' of all, not only is it not enough to be effectively censored by the profit motive, but everyone is also severely hindered from developing artistic skill to a higher level if they do not find a way to monetize their skill, something which is so notoriously unreliable it created the stereotype of the starving artist. This phenomenon was a direct cause of what I would call a flattening of culture all across the globe as traditional arts faced mass extinction due to their lack of profitability.

The cold war was won by capital and lost by humanity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I recently discovered the Create mod for Minecraft and it is still blowing my mind, it might be the best mod ever made for the game. I still remember watching the trailer for the mod and my first reaction being "THIS MOD ADDS THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION TO MINECRAFT!"

I already had the idea to make a post scarcity fully automated luxury communist villager society in Minecraft and this mod is exactly the missing piece to my plan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'm glad to see someone else thought to mention the Create mod when faced with this question, however, one must also mention the addon mod Create: Interactive, it would in theory allow you to create a self-perpetuating giant train base that drills its path forward, creates more rail in a built in production line with the drilled stone and deploys it automatically. Let's not forget the one addon specifically made to expand the train system as well. train-shining

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Everything in this quarter of the colour wheel. But I personally prefer the noncolours white and grey.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you.

Since getting my first tablet back in 2020 I always used Krita, initially on principle as to not even dignify adobe photoshop with a pirated installation, but I learned over time to appreciate Krita for what it offers.

Krita is free to download, open source and frequently updated with new features. It might not have the fanciest functions of photoshop but it has parity with all the functions that matter for digital illustration. As a plus it even has basic animation tools if you wish to have fun with those.

Compared to SAI I would say it is an objective improvement, compared to photoshop I would say it is much more user friendly, sadly I never tried GIMP so I can't compare it.

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Lenin Doodle (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

~~Does color theory count?~~

I started drawing digitally some years ago, but my rate of improvement was quite slow, and at one point I quit trying to draw for an entire year due to frustration with my inability to pick up coloring in a single week. What I drew here is by no means top-class, but when I started I never imagined being good enough for even this.

I wish to keep improving this skill forever, but alas, drawing Lenins will not put food on the table. Although I wonder if one day I'll be skilled enough for my drawings to actually do that.

By the way, I wish to rant about outlines for a bit. When I started drawing I initially attempted to replicate an anime-ish style, however, what always stood in the way is the "lineart phase" after the sketch phase. I was never able to get it right, and I always thought it was a waste of time anyway because the sketch itself always looked much more lively, not just that, BUT OUTLINES DON'T EXIST IN REAL LIFE! But hey, at least now I can draw anime girls too, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It definitely was. I wonder when the next "decades within weeks" moment will happen and finally bring about a paradigm shift for the better. The imperial core is deindustrializing and steadily rolling back so many of the guardrails meant to keep capitalism from imploding one wonders if the theoretical endpoint in a couple centuries is some form of neo-serfdom and subsequently the modern reenactment of the fate of the Romanov dynasty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dreams that many had and we must continue to have in their stead. sankara-salute

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

One of my personal favorites, although I'm pretty sure it was made after the Soviet Union wasn't anybody's address anymore.

 

Drew this one in November last year, I barely learned how to put color on the digital canvas and I attempted to draw architecture for the first time, the result is asymmetrical, a little off balance, and lacking in detail, but I am still proud of it.

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Greetings. (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I call myself Diputs, I came across this site one day while searching for some extremely obscure information about Vladimir Lenin on google. After observing it for about 3 months I came to the conclusion that I might have found the best website on the planet, so I decided to finally make an account to participate.

My main hobby is drawing, my main wish is to keep improving at it, but I am still unsure if I should pursue the goal of eventually being skilled enough to commodify it for the sake of income.

In a general sense I am interested in all art forms, be they stories, paintings, music, architecture and so on. Ever since Marxism gave me a holistic framework for understanding the world around me this interest only grew, although now I feel like I am forever cursed to be overly analytic of things that others would find uninteresting. I have a particular soft spot for socialist and socialist-adjacent music, art from the Soviet Union, particular video games and Steins;Gate.

My eternal wish would be to find a time-machine to transport me to the timeline where the USSR successfully united the whole planet. ussr-cry

I've got 2 questions, firstly, is there an unspoken agreement as to how frequently one can post in a given community?

Secondly, are posters allowed to post their own drawings in the art community? If so, is there an unspoken agreement as to how skilled one must be to do so?

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