Bear
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/17db42fb-6aa6-4f3b-bbdf-85b099637d1e.jpeg
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Fontasia@feddit.nl 6 months ago
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
that you are, Unga Bunga the 3rd. That you are…
DickFiasco@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Looks like it was done using the spline tool.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
so reticulated
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m assuming that’s because they were using the curvature of their thumb.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
what is an arm but a series of compasses?
EllenKelly@hexbear.net 6 months ago
I think it looks like it was painted with a thump, I was staring at it in amazement for a couple of minutes
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 months ago
angrystego@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s the same picture.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
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
Entropywins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We can only truly judge your work in 10-20,000 years.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And then it’ll be up to the humanoid cockroaches to decide.
mtpender@lemmy.world 6 months ago
He looks like he wants to steal my picnic basket…
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Surely you mean pic-er-nic basket?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hey, hey, Boo Boo!
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Really captured the “if not friend why friend-shaped” energy.
El_guapazo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The old masters of art.
Etterra@lemmy.world 6 months ago
TFW ancient cave paintings look more lifelike than medieval paintings.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Peak art, an inspiration to us all
dingus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
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?
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I love the way the line breaks fit here. I read this like they drew around the bear to get the perfect shape.
negativenull@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The amazing paintings in that cave don’t stop there.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave#Paintings
mister_flibble@lemm.ee 6 months ago
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.
smithsonianmag.com/…/ice-age-artists-may-have-use…
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
what a rollercoaster of emotions: “please just have a video- oh they have! 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?”
P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I appreciate that you stated it in a way that the fun fact is there’s a theory, and not that the theory was definitive fact. But it definitely seems plausible.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
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.
perishthethought@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Lol, now I’m imagining 200 feet from this cave is the Cave of Initial Sketches.
naun@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I wonder if they did a lot of drawings in dirt to get practice.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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?
negativenull@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, this is that one.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think it also has a lot to do with the humidity of human breath.
MrShankles@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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
negativenull@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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:
I linked this above, but check out Cave of Forgotten Dreams documentary on this cave.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
looks like we had a big cavemen artist in there actually
colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
And then you look at paintings from the Middle Ages and wonder how people evolved backwards