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Introducing "Bob Ross - arc": Almost everytime the painting is momentarily an impressionist masterpiece and then he fucks it up with happy wheelbarrows and Roco
by timonoko 6y ago
Introducing "Bob Ross - arc": Almost everytime the painting is momentarily an impressionist masterpiece and then he fucks it up with happy wheelbarrows and Rococo-style detailing.
- didgeoridoo 6y agoThe sweet spot is usually about a third of the way through, when he’s done blocking out the composition and has begun to lay in some good light and shadows. I’d buy a 1/3 Bob Ross non-ironically.
- seumars 6y agoThat would be the stage right before the RUINED comments start rolling in.
- canadianfella 6y agoWhy did you say non-ironically?
- rhn_mk1 6y agoCan you give an example of a painting that started its decline in the middle?
- nerdponx 6y agoHonestly, most of them. Especially the ones in a "denser" forest scene. The Alaska mountain ones are better.
- timonoko 6y agoProblem is that Bob cannot do "air". When he paints the distant misty mountain with full contrasts and color, it will do ok on its own. But then he adds the wheelbarrow with same set of colors and the mountain is not distant anymore and painting becomes annoyingly flat.
- elihu 6y agoMaybe it depends on where you live? From the article, he spent a long time in Alaska. Air pollution may have been a lot less than what people are used to in cities. I had a similar issue with Google maps when they introduced 3D views. (I don't think it supports that anymore, unless they've hidden the feature somehow; I guess they've decided it competed with Google Earth?) Anyways, my impression was "this is pretty cool, but why is it so hazy? Is it like this all the time in the bay area, and so Google engineers think this is normal everywhere?"
- tinus_hn 6y agoCould also be for the same reason N64 Goldeneye has its fog, so you have to draw less.
- criddell 6y agoIt's not a Bob Ross painting until it has happy wheelbarrows and friendly trees.
- pmichaud 6y agoFor me it's the GIANT, NEARLY BLACK TREE SLASHED DIRECTLY THROUGH THE FOREGROUND AND MOST OF THE SKY that he adds right at the end. It's actually kind of funny to watch in the spirit of a cartoon where our plucky protagonist always gets to the end of a potentially nice painting then predictably fucks it up in the same way every time before the curtain closes.
- nerdponx 6y agoHe addresses this in a few episodes. He said he does it to show a full range of possible details and techniques/styles, not because it's necessarily good composition.
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