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LK · 12-17-2005

Part of the problem is filling this space with, what I view to be, crap. That's the smaller issue; the larger issue is the one where the audience for this site has such low standards for quality to consider work like this some kind of satisfying achievement worthy of showing off to others as an example of what our fetish is about. I drew like this in 4th grade; I've since learned this isn't good art.

Am I the only one that looks at this sequence and wishes that there were some actual artists trying this instead of people who shouldn't be within 10 ft of a pencil?

I admire his heart and dedication to doing it, but my angst is more at the people who are commenting this guy positively; This isn't Grade A, this isn't awesome, this isn't spectacular. I see this shit at Macrophile; some people there are really good, some are OK and improve, but some people draw the same shit after a couple years, and its apparent, but damn it if people don't comment them with positive comments. It's like placing Picasso in the same field as a finger-painter and considering them both of equal artistic impact and quality.

(I will admit that sometimes a good vision can be seen even through the worst art.)

Are we so starved for content that something so bad is viewed as great, and when something that really is great comes along, it'd blow your god damn minds, but you couldn't tell because it gets equally as praised?

12-17-2005	#34
LK Process Disciple Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,258	Part of the problem is filling this space with, what I view to be, crap. That's the smaller issue; the larger issue is the one where the audience for this site has such low standards for quality to consider work like this some kind of satisfying achievement worthy of showing off to others as an example of what our fetish is about. I drew like this in 4th grade; I've since learned this isn't good art. Am I the only one that looks at this sequence and wishes that there were some actual artists trying this instead of people who shouldn't be within 10 ft of a pencil? I admire his heart and dedication to doing it, but my angst is more at the people who are commenting this guy positively; This isn't Grade A, this isn't awesome, this isn't spectacular. I see this shit at Macrophile; some people there are really good, some are OK and improve, but some people draw the same shit after a couple years, and its apparent, but damn it if people don't comment them with positive comments. It's like placing Picasso in the same field as a finger-painter and considering them both of equal artistic impact and quality. (I will admit that sometimes a good vision can be seen even through the worst art.) Are we so starved for content that something so bad is viewed as great, and when something that really is great comes along, it'd blow your god damn minds, but you couldn't tell because it gets equally as praised? __________________ Last edited by LK; 12-17-2005 at 12:58 PM.