Sometimes Copying Isnt a Bad Thing Art Review by Karen Rosenberg

I had a little chip of a revelation the other mean solar day when I read someone'due south comment on Facebook saying: (Totally paraphrased, but this was the gist of it):

"Digital Art is non real art, and you're a fool for thinking and so."

I was really peeved at showtime, after been training and studying digital art since I was 15 (28 at present). Calling back to all the people I had to prove to, that I was actually painting and non just touching up photos like everyone thought Photoshop was used for. I wanted to write this big whole paragraph up, then I realized I was 28-years one-time and on Facebook, about to argue with a kid who had never drawn in his life.

And then I stopped and moved on. But as the week passed, the idea of this kept on hit me. It reminded me of the teachers and older artists that would curlicue their optics at me whenever I brought up Photoshop in school, like I was this huge fake. It reminded me of comments on websites and blogs, bashing realistic paintings and and so along.

Just then I realized that I had become that way against people that Photo-Bashed, and everything kinda clicked. But offset, let'southward jump back.

My father was a traditional painter. You know how you remember specific moments in your life, and can practically come across it? I call up my father showing me a massive oil painting he did, of this adult female, clad in fur-hide, holding a spear. It looked real to me. I was so impressed, and wanted to exist just like my father.

Inspired to paint or describe like him one day, I picked up drawing at around 3-4. I began with pencils, believe it or not. I know, all you guys have seen is much of my digital art, but don't worry, I really do describe with pencils and pens. I grew up on them, drawing on annihilation that I could. My grandad endemic a print-shop, and would evangelize boxes of sketchbooks that I fill to the skirt in days.

As I grew upward, I continued with pencils until i mean solar day I stumbled beyond this very exact image, by Justin Sweetness.

Image by Justin Sweet

I remember losing my listen over information technology, knowing right there, this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. And then Justin, if you're out there, I know we've never met, but thank yous for inspiring me to take a adventure. From in that location, I dropped traditional tools and for the side by side iv years of Loftier-School, taught myself how to use Photoshop in a day where in that location was not many people instruction…how to utilise Photoshop.

At present, this is a risk that would cause lots of debates in school. I had several fine art teachers in High-School and junior college and each one of them disliked me. I never received above a C in any of my art classes and you want to know why? Not because we didn't get a long (by and large due to different generations, and looking back, I can see why), but considering I chose to bring a crappy back-in-the-mean solar day Wacom tablet to course, when every other student was using pencils or charcoal–painting plants and fruits, no less.

I wasn't being an asshole past any stretch, digital painting was perfectly welcomed by the course. They had the computers set upward for it, and they had the programs (this was dorsum in the early on 2000s, and so Photoshop was not as snazzy equally it is now) that would allow digital fine art.

But my teachers despised it. Proverb Photoshop is for hacks and people that don't know how to draw. Digital art will never take hold of on and I'thou light-headed for thinking otherwise. In that location was and so much hostility against an art form, that it made me begin to realize that it wasn't due to wanting to larn information technology, merely that information technology was because information technology was a new medium taking over and making it easier than what my teachers once had to utilize. They saw how fast art could exist produced, and to me, I believe that intimidated them. They never wanted to empathize the process or the art subcontract, they simply would condone it.

I caught another glimpse of this when John Lassetter, CEO of Pixar, began to introduce 3D-generated animation to Disney, and they practically laughed him out of the room. A lot of the traditional animators began to question it, asking if information technology was an end of the era for Disney Animation. He got flack and slapped around, but thankfully stuck to his gut, and equally y'all can very much see, has inspired and inverse the manner Hollywood treats animated films now.

Beingness something new, I stuck to it. I kept on practicing, trying to get meliorate at digital painting, inspired by the others around me doing the aforementioned thing. But information technology kept on getting a bad rep. People saying digital art wasn't existent, and that people simply cheated when they used it, bashing together photos and what non.

Run across, I'chiliad ane of those artists that spends days, hours and weeks on a painting, trying to push everything that I tin can. My business partners see it in the office I work at. I usually am glued to my computer when I'yard really into a painting, and volition spend hours rendering tiny things. Over the years, I've developed my ain fashion, which I guess could be hyper-existent (using others' words, not my own).

Every now and so I'd read a comment going "Looks similar a photo, this isn't fine art." "Is this just photography? Don't call it a painting then."

I fought this question forever, e'er using a rebuttal of "It's my style." "I love details." "Information technology's the only thing that calms me when I paint. It'southward how I meditate."

Thankfully I grew out of that, and it became my manner and you either like it or non. As the years passed, new fine art styles changed as well, and eventually photograph-bashing came about. For work or freelancing? I totally go it. Nosotros're all on the same timer, and time is money.

Now I know we alive in a day at present where photograph-bashing is the new hip thing to practise. I've seen hundreds of re-create-cats throw it about on art websites or Facebook, and quite frankly, I'm getting a little tired of information technology. Why? Well, the same reason I'1000 writing this commodity.

Just then artists began clinging on and doing it. It became a fad. The absurd thing to do. People that don't even piece of work in the business, merely bashing to photo-bash because some of the greats did information technology. I started seeing less painted art, and more than Franken-photos. And honestly, I got upset over it.

Why is this now okay, but I had to struggle to prove myself that I was really doing it when someone else was only slapping photos together and getting the same feedback?

But and so it clicked, information technology's non most that: Times change, art and styles evolve, and the earth volition not await up for you, so you lot better adapt 1 way or the other.

That'south not to say painting volition ever die, but I've come to realize that nosotros are in i of the virtually prolific times ever, where technology is literally evolving every hour of the day, techniques are improving and doubling, and there is non only only ane way to produce art.

Fine art is art, it will e'er exist a universal expression of inventiveness, imagination and story telling, whether through music, painting, sculpting, or writing.

The lesson I learned is, don't exist and then quick to estimate just considering you don't adopt the medium being used. It matters not the tool used, but the product that was born from information technology. A lot of artists have put thousands of hours into honing their craft, and growing the gut to put it out in that location for the globe to see.

And I think that's a lot more powerful than the debate of whether digital art is real or non.

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Source: https://www.muddycolors.com/2014/04/digital-art-is-not-real-art/