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i still dont get what's supposedly easier about photography and digital art versus painting and drawing.
especially when we're discussing GOOD photography and art.
the fack that you point and click or use the fill bucket tool and art happens? Not ******** quite. I can also throw paint at a canvas, but that doesn't make me Jackson Polluck.
A lot more people can create simple, nice looking pictures on a computer with a pen and graphics program than can draw or paint to the same effect.
The traditional vs. digital isn't about great artists who sell and spend days on their work. They know what is best for them and value the media they use.
It's about entry level drawing. Most people will have done some art at school, some will have decided they can't paint and never try again by the time they are 12.
Paint is a difficult medium to handle, it goes brown and grey when you try and get the colours you want, it's hard to control.
At school we are thrown into painting and drawing in a kind of "you either got it or you don't" method. This is fine when you are in primary school but when older kids get told "draw a landscape!" and left to it, they compare their work with others and think they are s**t and should just jack it in. This is not discouraged as far as my experience goes.
I am lucky that I have a natural ability to be able to copy things very well. I can copy a scene or a person in front of me, or photos. This meant I got satisfaction from my own work and that is what makes people continue. Lots though, have not got this ability but they give up before they see what else they are capable of.
I am a believer that people have either got the ability to do certain things straight off, or they have to work at them.
Embarrassment, however, often overcomes people's desire to succeed.
