• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Drawing realistic hands is incredibly difficult for most artists. This is a big part of the reason cartoon characters have gloved and/or non-human hands.

    Even modern AI is all thumbs.

    But this dude is fucking carving them with chainsaws.

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    1 month ago

    We had a massage parlor in my town that had a tree trunk carved into a hand holding a heart.

    It was actually really cool until someone hit it with a pickup.

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      1 month ago

      That sounds cool minus the truck part

      Was it a heart shape or heart organ, also was it carved like this tree or like carved into with the whole tree still standing

      Why am I so interested in this

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        It was 🤎 shaped and it was carved just like this, only it was much closer to the ground. It was also done in a way that it looked like the heart was being gently held.

        The whole thing was maybe 8ft tall.

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            Honestly thinking about it now I took it’s beauty for granted. To me it was just a normal feature of our town. Looking back it was an incredible feat of skill and an amazing work of art.

            I honestly wish I had a picture.

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              I mean for better or for worse we “tune out” and normalize stuff through repeated exposure, I think it’s cool that you saw it enough for it to be a part of that process

              If I were in your shoes I’d probably see this as bitter sweet because even though it’s gone you can now appreciate it once more

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    Did the tree get weirdly wider at the hand section or was it carved from a seperate tree and placed on the stump? The hand is much wider than the narrower trunk.

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      If you look at it the arm is cut smaller than the trunk. So it looks a lot smaller than it actually was. And probably there was a branch where the thumb is, because even with the 30 cm more it ain’t enough for that thumb.

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    A bit conceited to carve it into a human hand. I feel like a more appropriate tribute for the tree would have been to carve it into a tree.

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    I’ve noticed that people in Britain love carving. Many woods and forests have all kinds of carved trees. Some are very simple and some are absolute masterpieces like this one.

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    Why enjoy the natural beauty of a thing when you can bukkake your ego all over it?

    -asshole with a chainsaw