It would be cool if there was a community dedicated to helping people get better at making visual art, e.g. art education, learning, advice requests, feedback, etc.

Is there anything like this already? I had a search around and couldn't see anything much. There is !arttutorials@lemmy.world, but it's fairly dead, and doesn't cover lots of the things above.

If there isn't already something like that, would people be keen for it?

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[–] 23 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I post daily how-tos and tutorials for different crafts on !Art_Alchemist_Guild@lemmy.today

It's for sharing art, tools, resources and supplies, too. This summer has a low key leatherworking challenge where I've been posting leather projects and instructions. I'm going to shift to painting and drawing for September/Inktober.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Cool! Subscribed. But I think that comm has a specific tone to it, so perhaps not as general as I'd want.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's mostly me posting, so I'm open to suggestions if there's something you want to see more of.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Nothing in particular, I was just referring to the "this is a dark place" thing in the side-bar. I think that excludes a fair bit of art (which is fine, to be clear)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Subscribed! I saw an origami post, come visit !origami@lemmy.dbzer0.com. You made me realise I wasn't posting enough tutorials there

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You could just tag your post here asking for feedback. I've given feedback to people who've asked for it. People are usually very kind and constructive.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Seconding this option. While it's not necessarily the theme here, it's one of my most active hobbyist/interest communities. I posted here once and was given some pointers and how to improve the things I called out

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    If someone sets one up, I'm pretty sure a lot of people would use it. You can cover a bit with the "art share" one, but it's not really set up for discussion for stuff like "art education, learning, advice requests, feedback, etc". I think you've got a lot of secret art people lurking who'd be happy to give information and advice.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    There's https://lemmy.world/c/DrawingForBeginners for tutorial/ reference material.

    I'd be down to contribute to a learning community

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    There's an artist lounge community here, but it's dead. I've thought about trying to revive it, but I have no time. If anyone else does, I'll definitely participate.

    Off lemmy, I can recommend the Art Prof discord.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Cool, I'd not seen that one.

    I'm subscribed now. I guess if someone starts asking stuff, someone else will start answering stuff?

    !artistlounge@lemmy.ml

    The sidebar description does seem to cover more discussion etc that the OP was asking about.

    [Edit] also there's

    !learnart@lemmy.ml

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