[ SECRET POST #5826 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5826 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is it weird that rationally I know this is a VERY wrong take but as an artist I refuse to learn how to use brushes like that because I feel like it's cheating? Obviously this take never did my art well (or my self-confidence) lol.

[(Anonymous)]

nah, you've got a point. I've talked to a lot of artists who've been doing digital art for quite a few years who absolutely refuse to use "cheating" brushes. they've had a hard enough time fighting for "digital art is real art" that they don't want to give anyone ammunition to use against them. I get it. there's a line to be drawn somewhere but idk where it would be.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - It's funnier because techniques like engraving, tracing and stamping are older than digital art itself but somehow it feels like cheating to do it on PS. Maybe it's because we got used to drawing digitally back when cheating brushes were less prevalent. It's like choosing to handwrite a letter or document instead of using a typewriter because calligraphy is important somehow.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's weird at all. Society pushes people who want to do creative things to feel like they don't DESERVE to, and invalidates them a lot, and I've seen a lot of arcane bargaining as a kind of self-defense to that? Like, artistically inclined people often try to mix their culture's uncritical acceptance of hard work with its reflexive skepticism that art *is* work, and hope the result will be acceptance and peace of mind.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm... sorry I don't know what arcane bargaining is, so I am not sure what you meant by that. But society does that for sure, creative work is so undervalued in general.

[tabaqui]

It's funny, because my exSO, and a lot of his fellow artists, fell on brushes and whatnot with cries of delight, because they were doing commercial art, and anything that got the same effect in less time was something to celebrate.
Can they make the effect without them? Sure. Do they want to take all that time to do it on a piece of art that they're doing for a client, who absolutely will not know the difference?
Hell no.

I think everyone just needs to do their art in the way that makes them happy, and if that means no brushes, well - all good! I don't judge, and I don't know why anyone else would, really; art is so subjective, anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of professional / commmercial artists use them a LOT. It's not wrong (as long as it's properly credited of course). The end result is often cleaner and prettier anyway because it's as you say, it saves a lot of time. Again, honestly I think it's more related to me being an old lady going "ohh let me get my quill pen and ink because this typewriter doesn't give the same feel".

[tabaqui]

Heeeee!

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen some really great brushes for stuff like doing Black hair textures and I can absolutely see why artists would want to use things like that. Sure, you can do it by hand, but why would you want to when you consider how much time it would take just to do that part of the picture?

[tabaqui]

Exactly. And especially if it's kind of soulless commercial art that you're doing because hey - bills to pay! Nobody wants to spend hours/days/weeks on that stuff. Stuff like PS gave artists shortcuts to get the donkey work out of the way so they could, most of the time, concentrate on the art they actually *enjoyed* and felt a passion for.