Good day and welcome to The Grind and Bind Art Alchemist's Guild.
This is a dark place.
Most art will leave you feeling inspired, maybe even joyful — if not a little thoughtful. Not this art.
Most art makes people better, but this place can only make you worse, poorer, stained, and consumed by the craft.
All flavors are welcome to:
Be kind
Do onto others with kindness, curiosity and civility.
Please include images
Remember to attribute other's work, tag NSFW and Content Warnings if necessary, and describe with alt text for our differently sighted pals.
No AI*
This isn't a community for AI *unless you've built it yourself and trained it on your own work.
Tags are Optional
Make 'em up if you need 'em.
On Self-Promotion
We all need to put food in the ferret bowl, but let's not talk money here. If someone asks to buy something, please take it to DMs.
!artmarket@lemmy.world and !artshare@lemmy.world are geared toward self promotion if you want to cross-post.
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This is a new community, the structure and rules may change without notice. All things are ephemeral. Shoot Wren a DM if you have any ideas or want to help out.
Psychologists have used this question to gage openmindedness and creativity in children.
What can you do with a paperclip?
I like to see if I can make it perfectly straight. Once I'm satisfied with that, I'll wrap it around a pencil and make a spring.
I remember making small slingshot machanisms when I was a kid, popping away paper bullets in completely wrong directions.
I made a little guy to walk across a log. The paperclip ended up being too thick to do a lot of small bends with, but I like these legs.
I am so here for this.
I was looking for cherry piters and saw that an unfolded paper clip becomes a good tool for the job.