Why was Leonardo Da Vinci so GOAT??

isaac newton-tier curiosity combined with very high intelligence combined with the type of artists training afforded by living in renaissance italia

he used art as a tool for scientific inquiry as much as expression.

you'd better get REAL interested about mastering the form of all things under the sun nigga before u even THINK about stepping to da vinci nigga

>>2780213
>>2780212
Nothing special about him. It's meh drawing from corpses.

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>>2780213
>I have a lot of work to do /ic/
go ahead boi
we are waiting

>>2780228
copy that

>>2780227
yeh he should have stopped wasting his time and just picked up hampton or loomis

>>2780213
It's really pretty impresive considering he would have used a feather quill todo that.

It's almost impossible to be a modern-day Da Vinci if you're after the "Universal Man" experience. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely something you should strive for, but being a Polymath is fucking hard considering how deep a lot of disciplines go. You should still be pushing yourself to learn as much as possible from the world as you can- reading philosophy, studying maths, history, biology, physics, chemistry- but not because you feel like you should. Rather, it should be because you WANT to.

What makes Da Vinci unique was that he was endlessly curious about the world around him and he studied it fervently his entire life.

...But if you're just after the skill he had with the paintbrush, you can easily reach his level in a few years if you dedicate yourself.

>>2780270
What else did he study that wasn't anatomy?

>>2780283
Wikipedia, you dumb fuck.

He was interested in botany and worked as an engineer

>>2780270
>It's almost impossible to be a modern-day Da Vinci
Shit meme bruh. Modern anatomists have more knowledge than him

>>2780294

I was referring more to the Polymath aspect of his life.

>>2780213
Renaissance artists literally studied real corpses to learn anatomy.

>>2780388
Most did not have the privilege.

>>2780388
Dead body muscles don't have tension. They're pretty different.

That feel when all those n00bs don't know that Da Vinci used silverpoint and that's why his drawings from best reference there is look so appealing.

>>2780416
OP image is in ink.

>>2780416
>n00bs
go away

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>>2780433
lol, lets call the judge.

>>2780213
>Fuck I have a lot of work to do /ic/!!!
go ahead boi
we are waiting

>>2780283
Biology and engineering.

Man was incredible.

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>>2780294
>Modern anatomists have more knowledge than him

Oh, yeah. It's like knowledge is easier to get with time or something.

They say you can use your shitposting machine right now to search for anything about every subject in an instant.

>>2780213
Considering the era and the artists of the time, Da Vinci was a fucking failure and didn't catch a break til he was 42 years old with THE LAST SUPPER. Up until that point he was some little goth kid that couldn't hack it as an artist. He had the reputation of an artist that did shit jobs and never finished the work. He did get a job that he worked hard on and then the people that hired him decided to have it go another way and scrapped the project. I believe this was what he thought was gonna be a good career move. It wasn't. He failed yet again. Since his reputation as a /b/tard homie had to find work. There was a morgue that hired him to do some shit around the business. This is when ol' creeps started fucking drawing dead bodies to practice. He didn't have 4chan to see all this shit. So he began to draw that shit. And he was a twisted fuck. Definitely /b/ material. He started cutting these fuckers open and drawing the inside. If he would have been caught he would have been fucked. So this right here shows you where his head was at.

He had further failure when the Sistine Chapel was about to be painted. The greatest artists in all the land were called to add to this structure. Poor little Leo wasn't even considered. He was a bitch ass.

PERSEVERANCE is the attribute that made Da Vinci a Godfather of art. Motherfucker was fucked in the brain. He did the only thing that made sense to him. Being an artist can be a blessing and a curse. A true artist understands this suffering. We do not care about anything but what we find important. Art is primary and everything else is a second and third thought. For the last month I've been shrooming and drawing non stop because I felt this needed to be done before anything else in life. lol. Do you. You'll be good. But make sure you go hard, Otherwise it's a waste.

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>/ic/ likes Leonardo except for that one contrarian faggot

ya'll niggas alright

>>2783563
It's just some dude who watched that one video.

PS
>that painting
>Leonardo

>>2783526
found the 14 year old from /b/

>>2780213
i read once that Da Vinci would steal from grave yards to study anatomy.

>>2783526
Post work.

>>2783526
You have no clue what youre talking about. He apprenticed under verrochio at the best workshop in florence at the time. At 20 he was a master in an arts guild. By the time the sistine Chapel cieling was painted, leo was old and Michelangelo was huge and the pope wanted him to paint it.

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http://comfortpit.com/drawing-exercises-leonardo-da-vinci/

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>>2780234

>>2780270
>being a Polymath is fucking hard considering how deep a lot of disciplines go.

Depends how you define polymath.

It now takes a lifetime to learn 99% of a subject
But you can know 80% of something in a few years

And it's more useful to know 80% in 7 areas than 99% of just 1.

These numbers are pulled out of my ass, but you get the idea.

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>>2784197
interesting link, thanks anon

>>2783526
You put some effort into this shitpost.

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>>2780213

A little tribute sketch :3

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>>2780213

DaVinci truly a master.

>>2780213
he was not only top-tier artist
he was also top-tier human
he was excelent in everything he tried
a combination of genouses in one man

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>>2783526
niga made robot lion that was walking and could throw fucking fire from it's mouth. a shitposter from syrian desert scorpion trading website considers him mediocre