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That's your problem right there ma'am. You are in a guild whose purpose is to share opinions about and discuss art, and the only person here who matters to you is you.

You and hansma have both expressed this absolutely disgusting attitude; "I don't like how you draw and I don't like what you are saying so I am just going to discard your opinion."

You are free to feel that way and I know that you won't care that I say this, but that is an excellent way to become a generally shitty person.

also dont force feed me my own words

what you consider to be tacky
(my art)

and what i consider to be tacky
(your art)

are 2 very different things :/

if you want respect, you gotta hand it out first.

You are a troll and I know that you know it. Statements like "there is no way anyone with real eyes or concept of art is voting for Dr.V" go beyond simply expressing an opinion and border on personal attack.

The personal opinions I have expressed have to do directly with your potential as an artist. I think your ego and your adversarial attitude prevent you from considering the opinions of others, and that this has a direct impact on the quality of your art and your potential for growth.

I can see that you are not interested in what I have to say, and I already regret being a part of such static.

In the future please try to turn the trolling down a notch. You can express your honest opinion without being quite so insulting about it.

i actually came into this thread thinking i was gonna vote for hansma because usually i dont like dr v's stuff at all but i feel like dr v's fits the subject better

anti-art propoganda was the subject with no clarification, so its understandable that it could be interpreted different ways. that said, i dont think hansmas really deviates from the subject at all

its a tough choice. dr v's entry is considerably more interesting and developed than his regular vectors so thats definitely an A+ for effort. this is basically what i said would happen, that it'd be so hard to choose between them because essentially, i dont really think one is BETTER than another, they're just DIFFERENT

i dunno, i like dr v's because it IS more like an old-style propaganda poster and thats kinda nifty... but hansma's entry is the one that, looking at it, really made me feel SAD. so she gets my vote

not that itll matter much anyways because noones voting for hansma just because they dont like her, but still

Personally, going by the topic and what my illustration teacher and all my art teachers throughout college and highschool, I have a different view on how the subject where to be executed. I voted for Hansma because it was closest to how I would execute the project considering the subject.
However, I don't like either piece when relating to the subject that was given. They don't seem to have a strong enough grip on me when it comes to anti-propaganda. I'll have to go through some of the books my teacher has and get some of the examples on how I would have done it differently. But it's all a matter of opinion really.

I like how Dr. V went the rout of old fashioned movie poster-esk. However, I don't like, or really, don't get the full on feeling of old movie poster-esk seeing as how it was done digitally which all propaganda is done now adays.

I would have done something more pop-art style for this subject. That's my opinion anyway.
Seeing as how pop-art was the propaganda thing of it's day.
Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj.
Very famous pop artists that I would have used as reference for this subject and the media involved.











I would even go so far as a caricature of a popular idol of some sort, whether it be from the news, politics, or something else. I'm sure you all get what I mean by this.




Anyways, I'm done ranting. I've just had all this wide range of art instilled in my brain from it being ingrained into it for over 8 years of art school.

i think she was just posting examples to post examples

and im glad for them i understand more about this propaganda thing than i did before

Well I guess you could say I didn't really like it because it looks so digital when it looks like it would have looked better if traditional, kinda like the pop art I posted as examples?

And yes, I was posting examples to post examples of propaganda pop art in the 20th century. And I do apologize if I had confused you, I have a hard time explaining things clearly so that it not only makes sense to me but to whoever I'm trying to convey my message too. gonk
Otherwise, besides the main theme of the contest thingy, I like your piece compared to most of your stuff. It's crisp and has a illustrator feel to it. Graphic design is your thing man. It would have gotten an 'A' in my Typography class. For this subject, I was turned off by the words. They were too blunt, too self explanatory.

Usually I like blunt in a person, but in art I like to have to think hard and wonder what it's trying to convey. I think if the medium was narrowed down more it would have gotten it. Though as it stands, Hansma currently has that appeal to hers. It has too much negative space though, the white is too distracting to me. Which is why I don't really like hers either, seems a bit too empty.

So yeah, pop art. surprised