This is a thread for posting artguments. Here’s some examples:
Good artists don’t spend a lot of time looking at what other artists are doing. Harder to have a novel style if you’re spending too much time staring at other people’s work and absorbing theirs.
Good artists don’t feel a need to crab and compete with their peers and let themselves be guided by malignancy or spite. Being reactionary destroys creative ability to innovate or have fun.
Watching videos of people drawing isn’t an adequate replacement to drawing. Most drawing process and theory has to be internalized kinesthetically through the physical action of doing it. Watching someone else do it will never train your muscle memory.
There’s no single guide that will make you good at art.
Grinding fundamentals is a waste of time after you get the gist. You’d be better off grinding subjects that have value and are fun that you might be able to turn into a product that happen to allow you to improve your fundamentals.
If you’re an adult your focus should really be to get to being able to make whatever product or project you want to work on. You don’t have time to sit around shading spheres for years just shade muscles and boobs and stuff while working on interesting drawings.
Every professional traces and photobashes and grids and projects and cheats. The difference between being a professional and a hack is a professional is capable of achieving the same result without “cheating” while a hack isn’t.
Modern art isn’t bad. It was no more of a money laundering scheme than pre-industrial art. Everything was just a reaction to the propagation of the camera and the industrial revolution it wasn’t some elaborate cultural conspiracy, it was humanity entering a new level of existential comfort and art was allowed to move from being a objective means to capture an image to being a subjective means to capture abstract ideas and concepts.
Etc. Post artguments.
Good artists don’t spend a lot of time looking at what other artists are doing. Harder to have a novel style if you’re spending too much time staring at other people’s work and absorbing theirs.
Good artists don’t feel a need to crab and compete with their peers and let themselves be guided by malignancy or spite. Being reactionary destroys creative ability to innovate or have fun.
Watching videos of people drawing isn’t an adequate replacement to drawing. Most drawing process and theory has to be internalized kinesthetically through the physical action of doing it. Watching someone else do it will never train your muscle memory.
There’s no single guide that will make you good at art.
Grinding fundamentals is a waste of time after you get the gist. You’d be better off grinding subjects that have value and are fun that you might be able to turn into a product that happen to allow you to improve your fundamentals.
If you’re an adult your focus should really be to get to being able to make whatever product or project you want to work on. You don’t have time to sit around shading spheres for years just shade muscles and boobs and stuff while working on interesting drawings.
Every professional traces and photobashes and grids and projects and cheats. The difference between being a professional and a hack is a professional is capable of achieving the same result without “cheating” while a hack isn’t.
Modern art isn’t bad. It was no more of a money laundering scheme than pre-industrial art. Everything was just a reaction to the propagation of the camera and the industrial revolution it wasn’t some elaborate cultural conspiracy, it was humanity entering a new level of existential comfort and art was allowed to move from being a objective means to capture an image to being a subjective means to capture abstract ideas and concepts.
Etc. Post artguments.
