I saw this earlier today, since I get his newsletter. I think I mostly like the point that art is a little more than just the product. People do care how things are done, otherwise we wouldn’t enjoy process videos or art live streams.
He loses me a little on the “it takes work” part, since I’m more keen on people understanding that art is also expression and even if you have no idea what you’re doing, I respect people putting soul into things they make (even if it’s… Uh… Sonic mpreg or something… Ugh).
But, if you read his comic on creativity, he even admits he started off hating drawing because it was uncomfortable compared to his previous work in Web design, and made stuff using that odd method to express himself. I think he ultimately wants people to get a tablet and try it themselves, as he admits in that other comic that he grew to love drawing once he made the switch in 2012 and it was a mistake to stick to other tools he thought he had to use.
Yes exactly, art is simply a desire to express yourself and choosing to do so. A generative model isn’t sapient and cannot express itself, and a person asking something else to create for them in whole cloth isn’t partaking in self expression either. It’d be no different than calling yourself an artist because you commissioned someone to draw for you. In that case though, someone exists who could express something (the human who’s drawing).
Art is not skill, techniques, or popular reception. It’s the little rhythm you tap on your leg, the silly stickman with a gun you drew as a joke for a friend, the little dance you do when you’re home alone. I worry this generative stuff will further push people from partaking in something so human because it simply “isn’t good enough” and “I can ask something else to make a masterpiece in seconds anyway.” The pretty little picture isn’t what I’m here for, I’m here to share in your self expression—to see you be you! Anything less than that would feel grossly shallow to me.
I saw this earlier today, since I get his newsletter. I think I mostly like the point that art is a little more than just the product. People do care how things are done, otherwise we wouldn’t enjoy process videos or art live streams.
He loses me a little on the “it takes work” part, since I’m more keen on people understanding that art is also expression and even if you have no idea what you’re doing, I respect people putting soul into things they make (even if it’s… Uh… Sonic mpreg or something… Ugh).
But, if you read his comic on creativity, he even admits he started off hating drawing because it was uncomfortable compared to his previous work in Web design, and made stuff using that odd method to express himself. I think he ultimately wants people to get a tablet and try it themselves, as he admits in that other comic that he grew to love drawing once he made the switch in 2012 and it was a mistake to stick to other tools he thought he had to use.
Yes exactly, art is simply a desire to express yourself and choosing to do so. A generative model isn’t sapient and cannot express itself, and a person asking something else to create for them in whole cloth isn’t partaking in self expression either. It’d be no different than calling yourself an artist because you commissioned someone to draw for you. In that case though, someone exists who could express something (the human who’s drawing).
Art is not skill, techniques, or popular reception. It’s the little rhythm you tap on your leg, the silly stickman with a gun you drew as a joke for a friend, the little dance you do when you’re home alone. I worry this generative stuff will further push people from partaking in something so human because it simply “isn’t good enough” and “I can ask something else to make a masterpiece in seconds anyway.” The pretty little picture isn’t what I’m here for, I’m here to share in your self expression—to see you be you! Anything less than that would feel grossly shallow to me.