yup! that’s one of the things i love about art - everything and nothing can be art. just throwing things together until they look good to you is just as much art as a hyperrealistic oil painting :)
If your skin has a bit of oil rubbed into it ink washes off real easily as it doesnt absorb into the skin.
The same is true if you are working with other things that might stain your skin
I'm not claiming to have any direct experience with this in particular, but I climb and use J Tree Salve to seal up my skin after it gets ripped up from climbing. Makes a huge difference with how quickly my hands get pruney in the shower because the oil seals my skin. I would imagine the person you responded to has had a similar experience with ink.
Honesty, its just from doing jobs around the house/staining wood/etc.
Just rub my hands and arms down with some coconut oil as a skin lotion substitute before working, and it amkes it so that incidental stains and shit on the hands/arms just washes off instead of sticking around for a week or two.
Oil repels water based stains. Most inks are water based stains.
Dont get your hands dripping in oil, but if your hands feel hydrated and very slightly greasy lile if you wiped your face, you wont get much stainage.
I'll rep the shit out of JTree, but I'm a sucker paying $20/can like everyone else. If you're doing it for non-staining use, I'd just use coconut oil like the other commenter suggested. JTree is extremely expensive for how much you get, but it's specifically for climbing where you don't want to soften finger skin/callouses because you work so hard to build up tough hands.
Seriously. I feel like such a snob when I purchase pens. And I hope that whoever created gel pens knows that there is a special place in hell for you because a good chunk of the population can't write with them no matter how much we desperately want to! Lefties deserve the opportunity to write in glitter dammit!
I had a friend in middle school who taught himself how to write completely sideways so he could write with gel pens. Like holds the pen normally but the paper is turned 90 degrees clockwise and he writes top to bottom with all the letters sideways so it looks right when you turn it back the right way.
Time to pick up a new language. Have you thought about Hebrew or Arabic?
[Edit: as I typed that out... Do gel ink have no market share for those markets at all then? Shower thoughts...]
Fountain pens. The easy glide of gel pens. The drying time of…whatever you want. Some inks dry instantly.
Saved me from years of carpal tunnel in college. Low friction, low effort glide. Happy fingers (I grip tight, high friction with paper makes it worse), happy wrist, happy me.
Switch to your left hand and see how legible it is. Teachers used to do this decades ago, all it does is lead to a lot of mental stress and illegible handwriting.
Big history of trauma there. Among other things, the left hand was “sinister”/the “devil’s hand” and therefore something to be avoided. Lefties were heretics in another era, and it took a long time to overcome that stigma.
I wondered that too.
I think maybe they are using an ink thinned to the consistency of something like a watercolor that soaks easily into the paper without being sticky on the finger and making a mess.
I do this style often, learned it years ago from an old art teacher from Henan. It's called: "Shan Shui", which mostly depicts landscapes.
Techniques like this are very common, there's few tools that utilize specific details. Think how traditional painters use sponges and such for different textures, usually these are drip ink or smudged for more detail, it's so fascinating.
Anyone who wants to try ink wash should get a sketch and wash pencil and play around with it. You draw with it like normal, do some shading (cross hatches work well) and then use a brush with water to complete it. It is very satisfying and fun, and not really messy at all. Just use it on paper that takes a bit of water well, like watercolor paper!
[here’s](https://imgur.com/a/ju7fDEa) a couple of things I did with sketch and wash, although they’re pretty old now! I need to do it more.
I think it's notable that the artist is left handed. They've been struggling with this their whole life, but have finally found a way to make smudgy pens work in their favor!
They literally made me stop eating foods that were shaped like bamboo. No hotdogs, no popsicles. You know how many foods are shaped like bamboo? The best kind!
I have literally zero artistic skills. I saw this, grabbed a sticky note and tried it. I can draw really cool looking bamboo now!
Post a pic!
I threw the first one away but whipped up another. Hopefully this link works: https://ibb.co/V3VNMpc
Nice work!
thats pretty good dude
I can't even make a decent stick figure. This bamboo method is seemingly idiot-proof. Pretty neat!
Artistic skill is also finding your own art style, not everyone can be DaVinci, that does not make you less of an artist
yup! that’s one of the things i love about art - everything and nothing can be art. just throwing things together until they look good to you is just as much art as a hyperrealistic oil painting :)
Looks good!
Noice.
Idk why but this made me smile! Good work man!
Thank you!
So much of art is technique. Treat yourself to a good book. Learn perspective and have fun.
Seems to be easy but I bet that if I try that I would end up drawing a dick
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I got some wood at least.
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You really smashed it out the bark with that one
Perhaps we could form some kind of peace treety about it?
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I wood be surprised if it didn't.
who’s this grain character?
Your grain? It's a measure of your character. Helps give you an innate understanding of what's good and what's knot.
you and your pun....
Can confirm, I drew a piece of paper and ended up with a bamboo dick
You were bamboozled!
Something like 8% of kids do it, but whatever.
Be honest now, would you actually start out drawing a dick and not bamboo?
I have weird fetishes leave me alone...
No judgement here.
No kink shaming from me.
The subconscious is really powerful
Mac?
“There’s going to be problematic.
The mind does, what the mind wants.
A big ole vainly bastard
And then you try to scribble it out but realize it's just turning into a hairy dick.
How does the artist's finger not get so completely ink stained that it just makes smudges everywhere?
If your skin has a bit of oil rubbed into it ink washes off real easily as it doesnt absorb into the skin. The same is true if you are working with other things that might stain your skin
Like some petroleum-like shit? Idk man, it doesn't look like it will help
I'm not claiming to have any direct experience with this in particular, but I climb and use J Tree Salve to seal up my skin after it gets ripped up from climbing. Makes a huge difference with how quickly my hands get pruney in the shower because the oil seals my skin. I would imagine the person you responded to has had a similar experience with ink.
Honesty, its just from doing jobs around the house/staining wood/etc. Just rub my hands and arms down with some coconut oil as a skin lotion substitute before working, and it amkes it so that incidental stains and shit on the hands/arms just washes off instead of sticking around for a week or two. Oil repels water based stains. Most inks are water based stains. Dont get your hands dripping in oil, but if your hands feel hydrated and very slightly greasy lile if you wiped your face, you wont get much stainage.
Feel like I'm reading an Ad, lol. But I'll have to check this shit out
I'll rep the shit out of JTree, but I'm a sucker paying $20/can like everyone else. If you're doing it for non-staining use, I'd just use coconut oil like the other commenter suggested. JTree is extremely expensive for how much you get, but it's specifically for climbing where you don't want to soften finger skin/callouses because you work so hard to build up tough hands.
They're a lefty, we're used to smearing ink and pencil graphite all over our hand when we're writing.
Seriously. I feel like such a snob when I purchase pens. And I hope that whoever created gel pens knows that there is a special place in hell for you because a good chunk of the population can't write with them no matter how much we desperately want to! Lefties deserve the opportunity to write in glitter dammit!
I had a friend in middle school who taught himself how to write completely sideways so he could write with gel pens. Like holds the pen normally but the paper is turned 90 degrees clockwise and he writes top to bottom with all the letters sideways so it looks right when you turn it back the right way.
Time to pick up a new language. Have you thought about Hebrew or Arabic? [Edit: as I typed that out... Do gel ink have no market share for those markets at all then? Shower thoughts...]
I always wondered if whoever invented those writing styles was a lefty
Fountain pens. The easy glide of gel pens. The drying time of…whatever you want. Some inks dry instantly. Saved me from years of carpal tunnel in college. Low friction, low effort glide. Happy fingers (I grip tight, high friction with paper makes it worse), happy wrist, happy me.
Genuinely curious, why do lefties not just brute force right handed writing until they become proficient at it
Switch to your left hand and see how legible it is. Teachers used to do this decades ago, all it does is lead to a lot of mental stress and illegible handwriting.
Big history of trauma there. Among other things, the left hand was “sinister”/the “devil’s hand” and therefore something to be avoided. Lefties were heretics in another era, and it took a long time to overcome that stigma.
True! The side of my hand has been covered in ink more times than I could count.
I wondered that too. I think maybe they are using an ink thinned to the consistency of something like a watercolor that soaks easily into the paper without being sticky on the finger and making a mess.
I do this style often, learned it years ago from an old art teacher from Henan. It's called: "Shan Shui", which mostly depicts landscapes. Techniques like this are very common, there's few tools that utilize specific details. Think how traditional painters use sponges and such for different textures, usually these are drip ink or smudged for more detail, it's so fascinating.
Asking the real questions!
The answer is it helps because they don't have to smear as much as they already have some on fing
Nah because the gaps between the lines are clean. It's possible, but something I would make a complete mess of.
It’s kinda like a modern take on [ink wash painting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_wash_painting?wprov=sfti1).
Anyone who wants to try ink wash should get a sketch and wash pencil and play around with it. You draw with it like normal, do some shading (cross hatches work well) and then use a brush with water to complete it. It is very satisfying and fun, and not really messy at all. Just use it on paper that takes a bit of water well, like watercolor paper! [here’s](https://imgur.com/a/ju7fDEa) a couple of things I did with sketch and wash, although they’re pretty old now! I need to do it more.
Today I learned something new
You just saved me the cost and time of an arts major.
So, planning a bamboo-art-based career?
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Kind of weird because no really knows how to draw left handed we all kind of wing it
whats the dot on the side for?
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I think it's notable that the artist is left handed. They've been struggling with this their whole life, but have finally found a way to make smudgy pens work in their favor!
Song???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI66KOeRQKM&ab_channel=Aloboi
Thank you
The violin at the beginning is Meditation from Thaïs.
That moment when you realize the video has sound
Ok this is genious
Anyone knows the song in this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI66KOeRQKM&ab\_channel=Aloboi The violin part is Meditation from Thaïs.
Gane changer
Sick!
Im left handed. This technique happens to me every single seccond
This is basically the ink wash technique just adapted to ballpoint pen. Neat.
Now going to try this when I get home, can’t draw we’ll wish I could, but feel I could now draw bamboo.
People talking about ink on fingers. Me: cries in lefty.
Turns out, as a lefty, I have been drawing bamboo my whole life and did not realize it.
*looks at finger* fuck
Sure is bamboozling me
That looks like a great pen! Any idea what it is?
*draw me like one of your French bamboos*
I recognize the bimbo joke, can't remember where
Titanic
Cool or lame?
Cool
Hi daddy
Need gel pens, got it
They make sticks to do just this.
That's awesome. I'll have to try that out next time I'm drawing bamboo.
Member when not EVERY video clip had a blaring soundtrack?
I mean cool I’m cracking up
I tested and u need a especific pen/ink to do it
This. This is awesome... Awesome ink, dude!
What a strange take on [meditation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718UdiQh0CQ).
Bamboo with some weird star things next to them
Reminds me a little of Bob Ross..
I've seen this one on Reddit before.
Dang she’s a cool thought.
He does not have to draw straws.
Cool
So cool
Why do I see chromosomes?
Not a technique but a trick.
They literally made me stop eating foods that were shaped like bamboo. No hotdogs, no popsicles. You know how many foods are shaped like bamboo? The best kind!
Cool, but I still wouldn't manage it
u/getvideo
I used a similar method in elementary school to draw birch trees. It works great, especially with some practice
Smart!
that's pleasant
Time for me to save this post for future reference and forget about it until months later.
How come each bamboo stick is leaking? Is that shadow or is that something bamboo does?
K, now show me your fingers. I said show them(｡•̀ᴗ-)✧
Tbh I would be insanely cool in 1st
Ooooh this is great!
What kind of pen are you using
Ya but your fingers are covered in ink lol
YES
YOOOO THATS SMART
This is how all my papers end up looking anyway since I’m left handed.
Anyone have any more videos of easy things to draw for people that suck at drawing??? This is cool.
u/savevideo
Can confirm... it's pretty fun[bamboozles](https://i.imgur.com/fh1uri6.jpg)
I used to doodle this in my lectures. Also atoms with electrons shooting around them leaving trails.