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I've had my fill of family, now I'm going to select portraits of different famous people I like and see if I can paint them

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As a big fan of your posts, I have 2 1/2 questions

1: Do you do commissions?

2: Am I remembering correctly that you're in the EU?

2.5: If so, would you be willing to uhhh like sell me the a digital file of one of your existing pieces so I can order it on a Displate or something? I'm moving my home office and want some cool art not tied to corporate IP

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I haven't done comissions. I'm hesitant to exchange money over the internet these days.

I live in the USA, unfortunately.

And you can print anything you like. They're not the highest resolution, the newest is up to 6000x6000 but older stuff is as low as 2000x2000. Though there are upscalers that are pretty good to improve print quality.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You may be able to paint Jeff Bridges, but can you paint The Dude?

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Oh man, that's tempting!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Love me some Jeff Bridges!

Great choice in subject and good work!

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Me too! Particularly hooked on The Old Man right now.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh man, I went into that blind other than knowing he was in it, and it was so great! I think I have one or 2 episodes left to watch, but I have really been dragging my feet since they canceled it. Heatbreaking! πŸ˜”

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They cancelled it? Those savages...

Man I really like that show.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

'fraid so... Production delays/writers' strike must have killed ratings since there was over 2 years between seasons 1 and 2. Lots happens in S2, so it's still worth watching what we did get.

Just looked up the book and reviews are good but it sounds significantly different than the show.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's a book? I'm looking for it now!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At least I was able to bring you some consolation along with the bad news!

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I expect to read it before April is out! I love me some books.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nice! I have been doing so poorly with my reading list this year.

Must...

find....

motivation...

πŸ€ͺ

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wish you luck finding it! What do you normally read?

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just recently finished a book on the Soviet space dogs. That was pretty easy to knock out, as it was about half pictures.

I need to restart What an Owl Knows, as I started it a year or so ago and got overwhelmed by the amount of stuff in it and stopped to research some of the new things I learned.

Also got myself Guards! Guards! to check out Discworld.

Otherwise a bunch of classic sci-fi and King/Koontz horror stuff.

I've started music lessons around 18 months ago as well, so that's taken a big slice of that reading time in addition to my recent brain struggles.

Around the same time I also started reading manga, as the typically shorter chapters make it easier to read in small bits. Been able to knock out a bunch of that.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've always wanted to get into Discworld but have never gotten to it. Where do you recommend I start?

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not the best to answer that. I haven't read any yet, but someone here told me The Hogfather was free on YouTube, and I watched that and loved it! It's a pinch bizarre without context, but was like a British comedy version of A Nightmare Before Christmas.

I usually see Guards, Guards recommended in my circles, but the books take place in all over different parts of the story world, so you have all types of stories and fantasy subgenres to choose from.

There does look to be at least one Discworld community on here that will gladly recommend a few, or I located this fantastical flowchart to help you find a starting place you would enjoy.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Always glad to be useful! 😁

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He’s got a bit of Steve Bannon sprinkled on him, poor guy.

[–] PahdyGnome@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I dare say yes, yes indeed you can.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Yay!! Thank you.

[–] porcelainpitcher 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My homepage has been wigging out today and I saw a post by PugJesus on History porn but this was the thumbnail & I thought: "You can't fool me, BallShapedMan!" Great job.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] porcelainpitcher 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah! Something about people walking on a bridge. But with this picΒΏ? I was like naaaaahhh that's BallShapedMan!

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As a person also named Jeff Bridges (no relation,) I say that yes, you can paint Jeff Bridges. (Other) Jeff Bridges approved!

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

πŸ€£πŸ‘

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Should ask him what color he wants to be first