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Gunslinger - Westworld (1973)

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We aren't dealing with ordinary machines here. These are highly complicated pieces of equipment. Almost as complicated as living organisms.
Gunslinger - Westworld (1973)

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A few days ago a friend and fellow artist was feeling down on himself and posted to Facebook about it. Trying to cheer him up, I realized he was in a nasty mood and he said some things about digital art that I was just beside myself to hear that people actually thought that way.
Specifically, when I showed him a well-established artistās works, he said something along the lines ofĀ āoh, itās anime and itās digital -- two things I hateā. When I then further asked about it, he said verbatim:Ā āThere is no undo button in life so there sure as shit shouldnāt be one in art.ā
As a primarily digital artist myself, I got a bit offended, I will admit. Though he was not targeting me directly (and I donāt hold his opinion against him at all), I shot back:Ā āWell... Youāre not using an eraser in your art, I hope?ā
Anyway, after things started to get Not Niceā¢, I wrote a big long piece of my opinion for him, but ultimately decided not to stir shit-pot and deleted the string of comments.
It blew my mind to realize some people really do think this way about digital art. He also stated that peopleĀ āabuseā it (which I couldnāt really wrap my head around). So I took it as a challenge.
Iām personally a digital artist for a lot of reasons:
I like digital art
I like the look and feel of digital art
I create a LOT of art and I like being able to create a lot of art quickly and compile it all in one space
I donāt have room for traditional art i.e. setting up canvas to paint like I want to or putting out my inks and not having my dog trample through it or setting up a still life that I can have out for a while. I donāt have room to store completed pictures, and itās hard enough finding room to store my traditional sketches, even.
I like doing art with friends but ultimately canāt commit space to traditional art and like to screen share instead
Thinking about howĀ ādigital art is cheatingā because it has a history and undo feature, I hopped on Facebook, went live for an hour, and ditched all of my digitalĀ ācheaterā tricks... I committed to one paint brush in strictly black, did not zoom in or out, did not use the undo or history feature, and only allowed myself to use the eraser on the back of the tablet pen (which I used for a grand total of maybe 3 times)... Just like I was drawing on paper.
Things I was not able to do digitally that I would have been able to do on paper:
Rotate my page. OK, I could have done this using Photoshopās rotate feature, but I didnāt really need to and I didnāt want it to LOOK like I was using some sort of digital cheatery effect
Smudge the graphite with my finger to create more depth. Again, I could have used the smudge tool but it isnāt quite the same and I didnāt want it to come off as aĀ ādigital trickā.
Anyway, the above is what I made. In the end I added white bits on top because I usually use white acrylic or gesso over ink or pencil normally when I draw so there.
The lesson is, as I state at the end of my video:
You are only as good as your technical ability allows you to be.
It doesnāt matter what tools or medium you use. Your picture is only going to come out good looking if you know what youāre doing! If you canāt āseeā (with your artist eye) or picture things properly, and you donāt know how lighting works or how anatomy should be or compositional basics, you will be unable to create a convincing photo manipulation or illustration or digital drawing or anything.
Digital art is not cheating! Just because it allows you more ability to do what you need to and in a quick manner doesnāt mean itās any better or worse than say traditional pen and paper or oil painting or anything. People have been undoing for years -- painting over, rubbing out, pasting over, cutting and manipulating, any variation thereof. I mean, why do you think we find things underneath paintings? Because they were painted over or UNDONE.
I mean, look at this painting by Jan Van Eyck in 1434:
Look at the feet of the man. Do you see it?
That weird ghostly shadow? Well, he made the feet too big and painted over them! If thatās not the definition of an oil painting undo then I donāt know what is.