lady winde's private thoughts & art stuffs too

jeweledleah:

geirahood:

bloodyhighclaw:

bloodyhighclaw:

I can’t call a purely digital artist, an artist. No matter how many times you print a picture from the computer, it will always be ink. If you go to the market, an actual painting will fetch you 300% more then a print would. Ihave tested this myself for the past eight weeks.

Traditional Materials are more cost effective, and don’t add to the electricity bill. Someone who knows only digital,  is not doing the  majority of the work themselvs.And if you take the computer away from them they are at a complete and utter loss at what to do. If someone knows a decent level of both, then yes they’re an artist because they have learnt and utilised the pysical techniques, and have an understanding of how things like colour mixing actually work in RL. 

If you paint something in photoshop, it will always be limited by resolution constraints. A painting will last centuries, and not just a few years.

I got $3000 for 3 paintings, and $30 for  3 computer prints.People are not willing to pay much for digital because it is just ink, and it will always be just ink. It will never have the texture of real matirals, nor the exact colours.And it will never be 100% your work because you did not apply the paint/chalk/ ect the computer did that.Whatever you do on a computer will always be a collaboration with a machine.

I have seen skilled 100% Digital-Artists, but very few can match their skill on a computer with physical materials.

The question you have to ask yourself is:

Do you want your work to last a few meager years? Or centuries?

Do you want a technique that can be 100 copied with the press of a few buttons and  by copying and pasting some code? An art  peice anyone can replicate 100% exactly?Is that really what an Artist wants for themselves?

I think that you don’t really know how much does it cost to buy fabrics to use in canvas and by that I mean, good quality stuff, same thing with the oils, same thing about papers.

I know what you mean, but you can’t say “hey, they don’t do it themselves”, have you ever tried to paint something on a pc? Do you really know how much does it cost to really do a painting? I don’t think you have a clear idea of what are you talking about….

Everything costs effort, you can’t just descredit someone for using a pc and consider their art as “worthless”. Art itself evolved with time, you don’t think that Leonardo DaVinci wouldn’t have used digital media to make art if that would have been available in their time?? An artist can evolve too and they can use whatever tool they want to make their art, even create their own style, to not copy other people, well I’ve seen people painting like everyone else, but it’s your job, as artist to make yourself identifiable and unique.

On the other hand…this made me laugh.

nor the exact colours.And it will never be 100% your work because you did not apply the paint/chalk/ ect the computer did that.Whatever you do on a computer will always be a collaboration with a machine.

Seriously? you can’t be serious with that.

Well, if it is that what bothers you, a traditional artist didn’t applied the materials by himself, the brush and the canvas did it…so it’s not art either by your own standarts, so for you one tool or medium works but the other doesn’t…I don’t know.

It would be wonderful if I could sit and wait for the pc to do all the work (welp, that would be wonderful, because everytime a painting doesn’t go as I want I feel terrible), but you know, a pc can’t read your mind and open Photoshop or Painter and say: “hey, I know exactly what to do, you just sit there and watch…I’ll do all the magic by stroking and combining brushes and colours based on your own ideas, I’ll read your mind perfectly, so just stay still” O.O.

We’re not there yet…

The question you have to ask yourself is:

Do you want your work to last a few meager years? Or centuries?

Do you want a technique that can be 100 copied with the press of a few buttons and  by copying and pasting some code? An art  peice anyone can replicate 100% exactly?Is that really what an Artist wants for themselves?

Ok, here we entered to a different territory.

Sure, a painting can last for centuries, if it was only well preserved and that the quality of the materials (all good stuff comes with expensive materials), would you say the same about sculptures? can a gesso sculpture last for centuries? what about one made of marble? which one do you think will last long?…

Also, the people from the museums use a technique to retouch some of the paintings or they simple call an artist to make an exact copy of that work, and they don’t exhibit original pieces all the time either, why? because a canvas requires certain conditions to last long, usually the paintings are preserved on rooms with a certain temperature and humidity, you have the example of the painting “The Scream” of Edvard Munch, after that some idiots stole the painting from the National Gallery, it was uncertain if they will be ever able to restore it, since it wasn’t on a controlled ambient, the humity caused lots of damage, so they simply show copies or reproductions of the works (you probably can’t call that art either :D)

Do you know how many copies of traditional paintings are traveling around the world lately? many, why is that we have copies of several DaVinci paintings on exhibition around here, and that’s what they are…copies.

Traditional and digital art, can be copied…can be reproduced, digital art can be reproduced more easily, but you can do the same with tradional art after all.

Finally, you don’t really have seen people copying DaVinci paintings, on DeviantArt you can find a lot of renditions, my favourite one is one rendition of Lady Godiva (John Collier) from this artist http://60-six.deviantart.com/art/Drawing-Boot-Camp-11-Lady-Godiva-287007146

Can you go to her and tell her that her art is worthless for copying?? Also, not everyone have the skills to be an artist, you made it sound so easily…like if artist had their gifts inborn (well, in part, its true, is something genetic) but you only become an artist with practice.

Same with music, and all arts…people is influenced by the things they see or hear, in this modern times, many are influenced by old artists and they put those things in their work, can you blame them for use and show those influences too?

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