faisdm:catelynbriqueee:This post is bullshit. Art requires talent. It’s ridiculous when Someon
faisdm:catelynbriqueee:This post is bullshit. Art requires talent. It’s ridiculous when Someone crinkles tinfoil and splatters it with paint wins these art contests, when people who take actual time and effort are overlooked! Pisses me off.You know, out of all the responses this flowchart that I am kinda tired of now has ever got, this is one of the most mean-spirited and sad and it’s the only one I’ve ever felt motivated to reply to.Talent is bullshit. What even is talent? Talent is the idea that some people are just objectively better than other people at a thing, and that they should be the only ones allowed to do that thing, and anybody who isn’t good at it should hide away in shame and not do that thing. People say I’m talented. It’s rubbish. I’ve just drawn a lot for years. That’s it. Some people still don’t think I’m that good, but I’m okay with that because I draw well enough to get paid for it, I enjoy it and I keep improving.This flowchart I scribbled in 5 minutes at 11pm one night is the most popular piece of work I’ve ever done. I’ve done paintings that have taken days, I’ve done work for big companies, I’m a professional illustrator. This flowchart looks like complete crap; I was too sleepy to even draw a decent oval. This flowchart has inspired… I dunno, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world? More? It’s hard to track because it got picked up on 9gag and things. I think it may have been seen by a million people? It’s even been used as an English teaching aid in Japan, apparently, and adorns the walls of many an aspiring writer or artist. This flowchart is bigger than me.Even if I wasn’t capable of drawing to a pro level, even if I hadn’t worked for like…. the BBC, Square-Enix and stuff… I still hypothetically could have made this flowchart and inspired a huge number of people. Anybody could have made this flowchart. Anybody could make a piece of art that makes the world better by saying something worth saying. Sure, sometimes I am angry that this flowchart gets so much attention, and I wish people would look more at the work I put real effort into, but the thing is boils down to in the end is that I should feel proud of it, and of every person it encourages to not put down that pencil or stylus or brush or pen just because some wanker self-appointed art police tells them that they should stop enjoying themselves, stop striving to be better, stop trying to express thoughts and feelings for a reason as ridiculous as not being a master of perspective, anatomy, colour theory, things humanity took literal thousands of years to develop, from day one. Everybody has to spend some time sucking before they get good, and it’s unfair if I dismiss people and tell them not to draw because my time spent sucking was when I was much younger because my parents always encouraged me and gave me materials and let me devote time to drawing.You cannot force people to only find meaning in things you think deserve it, and if the painty tinfoil inspires others and speaks to them and that artist was the first to really look at the beauty of a piece of painty tinfoil and put it into an artistic context to draw our attention to how something we throw away and put no value on is actually very interesting to look at, well, good on them for making something that made people think that nobody else ever thought to make! I have been who you are. I understand your bitterness, and I am telling you, you should let it go because you’ll be happier and a better artist. Love all art. Love everybody who devotes some of the limited time and energy they have to trying to express themselves and attempting to get better at that, even if they don’t have your hand-eye coordination or colour vision, the privilege of access to time and materials and resources, or encouragement. Love them for trying. -- source link
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