No, that's not a painting. It's actually a dog.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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Artist: Scott Mitchell
Painting in question can be seen on this page.
You can watch a timelapse of them painting on YouTube should you not believe this is an oil painting.
For me it's the fur, especially in the dog's right side. It's too muddy and undefined.
Even the most single-toned animal will have more detail in it's fur regardless of lighting.
This is my dog waiting for me to get my ass out of bed to get her breakfast.
I don't need to zoom in to see individual hairs.
It's also a-panting.
Blows my mind every time seeing a painting like this that can only be recognized as a painting by zooming in until you can see texture/brush strokes.
Looks like a damn photograph otherwise.
I wish I had even 1% of this talent, but my brain is perpetually starved of dopamine so I never have the drive pursue my hobbies. So I'm forced to get my dopamine from artificial sources. But then that eventually stops working too, which makes things even worse.
Man I really feel this
I like this quote from Ira Glass, which sometimes helps:
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer
There's more, but this is the core bit. It helps me because when I'm spiraling I can at least remember, yeah, my tastes are killer. My tastes kick ass
Having a lack of executive function is the big hurdle. All the motivation and desire in the world doesn't help against that. :/
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to accomplish a goal everyone needs two things, the desire, and the circumstances. Desire is internal, but circumstances are usually out of our control. It sounds like your circumstances are challenging. You might not be able to do what you wish you could, but you're still beautiful. I didn't know you, but I bet your tastes are killer
I was experiencing moderate executive dysfunction from extreme anxiety last year. I started drawing but maybe did a small doodle at a time(<15min). I just kept the sketchbook and supplies in the one special place i kept clear of my chaotic clutter(even if that just meant pushing stuff around the desk). I think i picked it up once a week on average. A year on and I've done about a hundred sketches. I guess i decided that out of everything in life, that's what i valued putting miserable little bits of energy into.
Don't know if that's possible for you but every time you pick up that hobby you get a little better at it and that skill is never lost. So you know... Progress is progress ig.
I'm in this comment and I don't like it.
I see pixels before brush strokes. Like pixelated brush strokes
It's just amazing what people are capable of achieving. This painting is remarkable.
in this thread, as a twist on the more common meme "is this AI" or the more accusatory variant "this is AI", we doubt human intelligence instead
I'm disheartened by comments stating "whats the point?" just because it's hyper realistic. I do prefer less realistic art too, but the amount of dedication it must've taken this person to develop these skills and then the work on each painting, it speaks volumes beyond just being a replacement for a picture... You'd hang it on a wall and tell every visitor "this is a painting" and then each and every one of them would go NOOO
This is cool and all but I like REAL art..
You know like when a guy climbs a ladder with a balloon, jumps off and belly flops onto the balloon fill with paint and then the canvas sort of rips in the corner. Then you have a biggish blob of paint on the floor and the crowd goes wild for your artistic ability and pure genius. Then you turn around and sell your pure art for millions of dollars worth seconds of your time.
That's the REAL art
I'm more into firing painted matchsticks at a sheet of glass with a toy cannon, myself.
Cela n'est pas une peinture
It's a digital image (of a painting of a dog)
it's not hard to tell that it's a painting after even a cursory glance.
But the question is, would it have been harder to spot as a painting if I hadn't been told it was a painting before clicking on it?
I dunno. But I still think it's very obviously a painting. A very good one, for sure. But not quite as photorealistic as this thread seems to want to ooh and aahhh about.
It’s the snow for me. The dog is great but the snow doesn’t sell it.
Wow ..just like ....damn
Amazing!
Good lord, people, you can tell it's a painting if you zoom in. "Is this butterfly AI?" on everything was bad enough!
On mobile, i cant zoom in enough to tell
no its not