LMFAO!*FAVED!!!*

Ever read the early strips of Candi comics?

https://www.candicomics.com

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~Otaku-Man

ok Thats funny shit!!! thanks fer the link!!

Thought you'd get a kick out of it. Thank God Japan has it's head screwed on right about it. Osamu Tezuka made sure of that. :)

And no problem. If you want to see more good stuff like that, a watch to my FA page  OtakuMan24 is a great way. It's also a great way of saying thanks.

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~Otaku-Man

P.S. I'm on a Tezuka kick. So sue me. :P

It's a lot like that with writers too.

I've heard of that before. Never understood the reasoning behind bashing somebody for wanting to make a living.

It's not like being homeless makes you a better artist. lol

Hahaha!

The thing I don't like in the art world are those few "artists" who are payed hundred of thousands of pounds for crap they chucked on the floor randomly. I think it's not due to people buying it just because of the actual "work" but because it's by someone who is famous/revered by the elite of the artistic community.

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hehehe! priceless ... I hate those too ... And cause of my art teachers at 1st year of collage i stopped drawing for 2 years @_@

Oh oh, the old struggle between theoretical geniuses that are broke and those that actually do practical work and earn a living. :P

I've always considered art critics to be as meaningful as braille on a drive-thru ATM. Art means different things to different people. While the message can be fairly universal, it is human nature to perceive it in a manner completely unique to the individual. Those who follow the prattling of critics in order to seem cultured usually lack originality and are basically lemmings.

Man funny and truthful.

You are so sadly true *sighs* I went to art degree. Man, if you want assholes, try assholes who want to change the world with awful artwork.

True....VERY TRUE Indeed!:)

Yet so many of these "tempermental artists," as you call them, have enriched the world of art and (in my view) expanded our knowledge of human vision and of human experience: Van Gogh, Munch, Gericault, Rossetti, Blake, Durer, Dadd, Rembrandt, Vermeer.... Would we as a culture have gained anything, had they been "normal" people who painted for greeting card and cereal companies? I have my doubts. ;)


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I would offer a Rembrandt distributed millions of times around the world on a $2.95 greeting card might have more impact on actual culture, instead of having only an impact on only "art culture".

Or even as a free card handed out on street corners; I agree. Yet if we're to dismiss temperamental artists driven by personal visions, then we have to dismiss Rembrandt, too. I'm not willing to do that.

If I can hazard a guess at Alexspastic's original gripe, it is not that he would dismiss the cultural contribution of a tempermental artist's artwork. But that he has a hard time working near them, and they degrade him because he makes an effort to integrate his art into business ("..condemning some illustrator who actually wanted a paycheck."), something no one should be condemned for doing.

By the way, I wasn't talking about "art culture" but about human culture: the total range of concepts and activities that we share and that we pass on to the next generation; I apologize if my context failed to support that meaning.

He's talking more about temperamental wannabe artists.

Okay... with that point I could agree! ;)

Yet even then, I still have to think about Van Gogh. His early work was *extremely* weak (his people were misproportioned to the point of deformity) and there was no indication whatsoever of the artist that he would become. Yet he persevered... which might reveal the truth about "character over attitude," as Alex described it.

Yeah, goes to show you that if you work hard, your work may be worth millions...long after you are dead, of course.

Besides, Van Gogh wasn't temperamental, he was a nut: cut off his ear because he loved a woman. :P

Behold: http://www.sothebys.com/video/privateview/

No, the video is not a joke. It's a prime example on the breakdown of objective asthetics in modern art. This is indicated by the absurdly abstract designs in which the viewer literally "makes up" what the painting may be about, and the emotions it supposedly conveys. This means it could be anything and everything. Metaphysically, if something can be anything and everything, it is, in objective reality, nothing at all. That's what's been painted.

My drawing and painting teacher in high school would put on videos like that. All of them were with this bucktoothed nun with big glasses that would spout all kinds of bullshit about what the painting was about.

thats just priceless...

I mean of course that video

lol

i know what you mean man, i have had to deal with too many of those people and it ticks me off to no end. btw awesome illustration!

so true

I've never taken classes, but I've heard art instructors are generally jerks who love to tear people to pieces. It makes me glad I never took classes.

I've a personal rule i follow... if your a dick I'm not buying >.> AND ill tell people your a jerk... word of mouth gets around rather quick XD

Heh, funny. That's almost how I can see this community sometimes. No matter how much of an asshole you are, as long as your porn is good people will suck you off for any sort of porn.

Never got to be a real artist. I always wanted to do what I wanted but my art teachers always wanted me to do something else, something I was not good at, rather then improving both I got worse at what I enjoyed since I was never allowed to do it.

i feel the modles pain, but i feel even more pain when "earl" is the modle

I love it very funny and cool.

Interesting message. But I really like this pic because of the pachyderm characters - you draw them so adorable!

Thanks Pachy but i still need to learn fat distribution.....now where did i put those tastycakes??

I love the line weight... Most excellent! :D

Oh, I love everything about this image! I enjoy the thought that someone is really painting something so absurd as art and being tempermental about it.

LOL!!

It's funny because it's true!

I love that crosshatching in the background.

i like to do that from time to time