You have mad skills sir. Very inspiring.

I'm a comic book and animation artist and your vids give me inspiration to step out of my comfort zone a jump into painting more. Keep up the great work.

The way I look ait it is an illustrator has to be an artist ( ability ) and also use their imagination (creativity ) hence Artist

O- I was literally just thinking about u when I was watching this vid! I can't believe you actually commented tho!

haha, two amazing artists at the same place!

Show me a fine artist that can paint portraiture as good as this. Yes I'm with you paint who and what you admire.

😂 there’s always a Chance…

@normtayla Facts 😂

No worries, I don’t mind… I am what I am 😋

It’s a straw man argument. The reason he’s not an artist is not because he’s an “illustrator,” it’s because he shamelessly and slavishly copies reference photos.

@@reginaldforthright805 Bro make no sense, by following your way of reasoning every kind of portrait is a "copy" then, cuz it's a personal reproduction of a reference photo / image / reality . Even if you do a photo-realistic painting , you are still a artist because you are making something new made of paint in your way .. Require skills , hours of study , color theory etc etc and it's not something a lot of people can do . Painting is not a so popular skill.. do you know ? Also the people doing these comments, just wanna deprecate his artworks out of jealousy or i don't know what . there is nothing constructive about that . There is a reason why one of the most expensive painting ever sold is 3 stripes of paint on a mono-color background . i doubt you know that either tho 🤣

Cope

Is a Software Developer an Artist, since he creates something new? Aren't there a lot of people that create stuff, that aren't typically called Artists, like carpenters and other craftsmen? And if you called them Artists, people would simply be confused and ask you what the heck even is Art then.

I wonder what exactly it was that disappointed them

And i Wonder where There is a difference… an Illustratior makes Art too. Those Gallery people Are weird 😅

In my experience it ‘abstract’ ‘artists’ that are lucky if they sell one painting in their lives that say things like that.

My aunt, who is an artist who sells landscapes, said that to me in a condescending tone and it stuck with me for life. So for a very long time I didn't even look into illustration because it wasn't "art" but I finally came around and accepted that I like illustration AND that it is art.

Perhaps you would like this related topic as well, I found it yesterday. It's up to you. Cheers, mate. "How to Deal with Gatekeepers as an Artist": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ib2JmpiSv7-mZZc.html&ab_channel=ArtSocial

Yet they complain about AI art

@scottyboy6269 Yeah, I'm sure it comes from a place of fear and pride. Being afraid their jobs will be taken and knowing that images created by AI are a conglomerate of art created by real people sourced from online, yet not getting by credited for it. I mean it's like people who say digital art isn't real art either (which as a traditional artist, I totally disagree because I sucked so bad at digital art I hired someone to create a simple logo for me). It's just people's opinions based on their own biases and lenses. There is also a smaller group of people that feel traditional artists will become sort of 'special' types of artists, such as stick and poke/hand tattoo artists vs. machined tattoos. Traditional art & DIY crafts will always have handmade qualities to them that make them special. think I fall into that category since technology isn't going anywhere, things change, & processes evolve. In such a fast-paced world centered on instant gratification, that is to be expected - AI art is only the beginning.

@@changemymind06 I'm on the fence with digital art, MANY of them are just awful it's cartoony looking, then there's the fact a processor does a lot of the work...gradients, selection tool, undo etc. And they always leave the background etc "stylized". Along with many of them cannot do traditional mediums, which baffles me. But if I was paying anyone for artwork for a board game, video game cover etc etc. I would stipulate it HAS to be non digital. I want the original, and then there's zero chance of the crazy twitter mob losing their mind about AI art :D Plus oil paintings have all that amazing texture you cannot replicate until 3d printed paint art becomes a thing.

@scottyboy6269 that's very true! I like your point of view. I'm of the same opinion as you as far as a processor doing the work, but personally, I wouldn't go as far as saying it ISN'T art completely - it's just different art. I have seen some digital art that makes you double-take, and one would think translating digital art to traditional would be easy, but I think both have their own idiosyncrasies that require patience and learning. I actually drew my logo but it isn't 'perfect' which is why I want someone to translate it to digital...although after my previous comment, I'm thinking of keeping it as is and enjoying the not-so-perfect line here or there. I already am more enamored with a graphic novel, for example, if I know it was completely done traditionally so I would hate to be an unintentional hypocrite! Also, 'art' has seemed to expand to mean how efficiently and well a person can do something, like programmers can be their own sort of artists and poets are word artists. I guess I'm sort of reaching now lol but I guess I just mean there is room for all sorts of art, and we are not required to like all of it.

@@scottyboy6269 digital art is becoming a must for any artist looking to work with any companies, they do not really prefer traditional in a lot of spaces now, doesn’t mean they wouldn’t exactly accept it, but the medium is becoming a mainstay no matter how much it streamlines the process, so is AI art, we just have to level with the times.

Absolutely. Artists should do what they are passionate about, it's what drives us to keep going. Negative opinions, frequently from those who've never tried any....

Towards the end of his lifetime Rockwell was classified as low brow and less than an artist by the fine arts community. But Rockwell is easily one of the best painters through history.

OMG I struggle with the same thing! I want to do illustrative stuff. I personally don’t like realism. I feel like if it looks too “real”, it might as well just be a photo. Not that I don’t appreciate the skill it takes people to make realistic images, but I just don’t personally like it. I want to create illustrations, and yet I naturally try to make my work look too realistic. It’s frustrating.

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Yes it was 😊

All those tools and liquids

Thank you! Cheers!

Yup

Same people will congratulate random splashes have literal garbage

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Thing is most of us have seen a lot of the things 50% that both fine artists and Illustrators do, not every single fine artist creates something that has never been seen before, and not every Illustrator creates something you have seen before.

@@sincorazon9920 The difference is that illustrators are hired to create images that are guaranteed to be “100% appealing” as a commodity to sell product to the masses. (that’s what makes it predictable). Not so much for fine artists. Their work is valued by its level of vulnerability and authenticity, that only needs to resonate with ONE patron, even if everyone else HATES it 🤷🏽‍♂️ It’s FREE to be ANYTHING it WANTS, including the exact OPPOSITE of appealing 🧐

​@@Tonabillity​- Just how many variations if splashes of blue in a canvas that we need. The countless pointelism in the market or taped up banana. Screensilked graffiti. Yes, the works of modern artists like Picasso or Jackson Pollack are bold, evokes emotion and creating graphical images. During their time. Now, it's the repetitive, redundant and unimaginative. Lacking humanity. Most made in less than half a day with minimal effort. They are Art. Yes. Maybe or Debatable. The big question is, do they really deserve the hundreds of thousand price tag in art galleries and the prestige above other painters or illustrators. The answer is NO.

@@inisipisTV It seems you’re just not frequenting appropriate venues. Lauren Halsey just exhibited monumental pyramids and hieroglyphics depicting residents of Inglewood California, at the Met. (Google it) Prototypes of structures that will actually be constructed to transform the city of South Central LA in the future. But perhaps you have a point. Maybe “REAL” art advocates can NEVER have enough depictions of meticulously rendered superheroes in their lives 🤷🏾🙄

@@inisipisTV ((The answer is NO)) Reality seems to disagree with you 🤷🏾