Gorgeous work Don’t Fight the Hypothetical.
Actually I’ve liked a lot of the work on here but haven’t responded to every one.
How do you know David didn’t have big, ugly hands? 
I can’t post anything at the moment, and won’t be able to until November. Everything is in storage, including the scanner, and the cable that connects the camera to the computer has gone south as well. Next one, perhaps… I’m not a visual artist anyway, but I use automatic drawing, collage and mask-making as part of my character work in singing and acting.
I just wanted to say how impressed I am with the range and quality of everyone’s work. I’m not surprised - Dopers are an incredibly creative bunch - but I thought you should all know that I’m very keen to follow the work of all of you to see how you develop and where your ideas take you. And when I get a chance, I’ll send you some of my stuff.
Argent - I don’t think anyone’s commented on how brave you are to show your work to a message board. That’s a hard thing to do, particularly when you have so much of yourself invested in what you’ve done. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.
Hah, well it’s easy to be “brave” enough to show your art to a message board if you already have an overinflated ego and think that your art is the best art in the world. Suffice it to say I’ve been suitably humbled.
Thought y’all might like to know that I found a Beginning Acrylic Painting class that I’m going to take. It’s just one 3-hour session, but I figure it’s a good start.
I hope that doesn’t mean discouraged. As I said art is not easy and like most endeavours taken up by humans, it has a long history of someone figuring out the guiding principals of what makes it ‘good’ long beforehand. These are easily learned. They are not required by any stretch, indeed many great artists purposely avoided such guidance. These artist were almost always discounted by their contemporaries and the contemporary press and critics (see Van Gogh). So you are possibly on the vanguard of the next big thing.
Have you checked out Juxtapose or Hi Fructose magazines? Both of these publications cater to the Lowbrow Art Movement.
Something else, I used to work as an illustrator. To say I got a lot of disparaging remarks about my work would be stating it lightly. Then I found a tshirt that helped me a lot. It depicted a stressed out artist at his desk screaming out, “Alright, then YOU draw it, smart guy!” I wore it all my executive meetings with AE’s.
Keep making art!
I’ve seen Juxtapoz before, from what I remember, I liked the art in it a lot and found it to be similar to the kind of stuff I like to draw. That lowbrow art movement you linked to sounds like my area, if I had to be placed in one, since really my only influences are underground “comix” like S. Clay Wilson and some of R. Crumb’s work, and punk rock art and stuff like that.
Stuff like this (not the best example but one of the only black and white S. Clay Wilson drawings I could find.)
I saw your stuff Argent Towers, it was pretty good. So are most of things I’ve seen here. I’m not an artist, what I showed here was me goofing off and accidentally finding it did something unexpected.
That was a complete accident. I had no idea that it was going to do that. It did not look nearly as cool from the top. I figure that the light from the scanner below was reflected and refracted back into the scanner to produce that effect.
Sure. I uploaded the others for you.
This was my first attempt. It’s the poorest.
Then a snowy park somewhere.
Last a church in Boston I took a picture of 1/07.
Wow. Those are neat. I’ve done Polaroid emulsion transfers and regular transfers before, but not this. It has that sort of “instant art” appeal to it. Heh. Now I wish I had some SX-70 film and a Polaroid camera lying around just to keep things interesting. (The last “fun” thing I did with my cameras is I converted a D70 that was gathering dust into an IR camera. It’s pretty neat.)
See, now I never did (but always wanted to do) transfers but never got around to it. Funny thing about the IR; I did the same thing to my Canon Rebel.
Some really awesome work people!
Here are my humble efforts.