Digital art discussion - Other Crafts

G GROG Grand Member (1 year) Tujunga Joined: Jun 21, 2006 Posts: 7548	G GROG Posted posted on Sat, Jul 2, 2011 4:09 PM So, GROG spent a LOT of years and hours drawing with pencil and paper. Now hand drawn animation is pretty much dead as far as feature films, and Computer animation is KING. You don't have to "inbetween" your extremes, the computer does that for you. You don't have to be a good draftsman to be a computer animator. You get some amazing images you'd never be able to get in hand drawn animation. You can do everything so much faster now on the computer. People have said,"It's just another tool for artists." But is it? The computer can allow a person who can't draw a stick figure to make ads and "art' in hours that trained artists 10 years ago took weeks to do. Here's some examples. GROG did all these in a couple of hours this morning, and they required no artistic skill at all. Only a general knowledge of Photoshop. GROG google "pretty girl" and find image of Jessica Alba. GROG look at "Wallpapers" and grab this planet image: GROG google perfume bottle: Put 'em together, adjust the color on the planets in the background, a little blur around Jessica, add a glow behind the perfume bottle, and add some type. and viola, it's a perfume ad. Maybe the art director doesn't like the background. GROG google "nebula", then plug it into the background. Move the type a little, and bang, in just a few minutes you've got a revised perfume ad. No drawing at all and just a few basic Photoshop skills. How about a movie poster. Google Finding Nemo. Google Finding Nemo logo. Add posterization filter, and bam--- movie poster art. Let's create some "art"! Grab our Jessica Alba pic. One filter, adjust a few sliders. Adjust the background color, and zip, bang, boom--- looks like silk screen art. What if we did that to a lion? What if we used a different filter on the lion photo and got this? And then, what if we combined the two? Now we're making some art! Say the art director comes up and says we need a picture of a redhead in that same pose as Jessica Alba, but we don't have the time or money to audition models, hire a photographer, book a studio to take pics? A little push and pull in "liquify" in Photoshop, adjust the color here and there, and here's our new model. Didn't have to pay her, or photograph her, but here she is. GROG not use ANY drawing skills GROG develop growing up. A trained monkey with a few Photoshop skills could do all that. Is he still an artist, and is it still art? This artwork GROG do several months ago. GROG come up with the idea for the Moai Madness art show at the Tonga Hut. GROG quickly knocked out a Moai silhouette in Photoshop. Add a topknot and some type and there's your flier. You know, now that we're going to have the art show, we're going to need some art in the show. GROG already have this Moai, what if we make a background like those cheap abstract paintings/prints of landscapes you see in hotel lobbies and restaurants? We'll put the Moai in there, slap a little color on him and there's our Moai art. Kind of remind GROG of paint-by-numbers. What if we make it even more like paint by numbers by adding hilites and shadows? What if we adjust the color, add some more Moai's and call it "Ocean Sintenels"? Now THAT's art. What if we cropped the art and made it into the cover for Tiki Magazine, how would that look? Maybe it might look better if it was brown. [ Sure the computer is just another tool, but does it make it too easy to make ANYBODY look like a good artist? Does it make good artists lazier and less skillful. There are some amazing pieces of art being done on the computer, but more often then not, you can tell it's been done on the computer. Computer art seems to lack the "warmth" that hand drawn art has. What do ya'll think? GROG miss Tiki-Kate [ Edited by: GROG 2011-07-02 16:16 ]

So, GROG spent a LOT of years and hours drawing with pencil and paper. Now hand drawn animation is pretty much dead as far as feature films, and Computer animation is KING. You don't have to "inbetween" your extremes, the computer does that for you. You don't have to be a good draftsman to be a computer animator. You get some amazing images you'd never be able to get in hand drawn animation. You can do everything so much faster now on the computer. People have said,"It's just another tool for artists." But is it? The computer can allow a person who can't draw a stick figure to make ads and "art' in hours that trained artists 10 years ago took weeks to do.

Here's some examples. GROG did all these in a couple of hours this morning, and they required no artistic skill at all. Only a general knowledge of Photoshop.

GROG google "pretty girl" and find image of Jessica Alba.

GROG look at "Wallpapers" and grab this planet image:

GROG google perfume bottle:

Put 'em together, adjust the color on the planets in the background, a little blur around Jessica, add a glow behind the perfume bottle, and add some type. and viola, it's a perfume ad.

Maybe the art director doesn't like the background. GROG google "nebula", then plug it into the background. Move the type a little, and bang, in just a few minutes you've got a revised perfume ad.

No drawing at all and just a few basic Photoshop skills.

How about a movie poster.

Google Finding Nemo.

Google Finding Nemo logo.

Add posterization filter, and bam--- movie poster art.

Let's create some "art"!

Grab our Jessica Alba pic.

One filter, adjust a few sliders. Adjust the background color, and zip, bang, boom--- looks like silk screen art.

What if we did that to a lion?

What if we used a different filter on the lion photo and got this?

And then, what if we combined the two? Now we're making some art!

Say the art director comes up and says we need a picture of a redhead in that same pose as Jessica Alba, but we don't have the time or money to audition models, hire a photographer, book a studio to take pics?
A little push and pull in "liquify" in Photoshop, adjust the color here and there, and here's our new model. Didn't have to pay her, or photograph her, but here she is.

GROG not use ANY drawing skills GROG develop growing up. A trained monkey with a few Photoshop skills could do all that. Is he still an artist, and is it still art?

This artwork GROG do several months ago.

GROG come up with the idea for the Moai Madness art show at the Tonga Hut. GROG quickly knocked out a Moai silhouette in Photoshop. Add a topknot and some type and there's your flier.

You know, now that we're going to have the art show, we're going to need some art in the show. GROG already have this Moai, what if we make a background like those cheap abstract paintings/prints of landscapes you see in hotel lobbies and restaurants?

We'll put the Moai in there, slap a little color on him and there's our Moai art.

Kind of remind GROG of paint-by-numbers. What if we make it even more like paint by numbers by adding hilites and shadows?

What if we adjust the color, add some more Moai's and call it "Ocean Sintenels"? Now THAT's art.

What if we cropped the art and made it into the cover for Tiki Magazine, how would that look?

Maybe it might look better if it was brown.
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Sure the computer is just another tool, but does it make it too easy to make ANYBODY look like a good artist? Does it make good artists lazier and less skillful. There are some amazing pieces of art being done on the computer, but more often then not, you can tell it's been done on the computer. Computer art seems to lack the "warmth" that hand drawn art has.

What do ya'll think?

GROG miss Tiki-Kate

[ Edited by: GROG 2011-07-02 16:16 ]

Post #595942 by GROG on Sat, Jul 2, 2011 4:09 PM

GROG not use ANY drawing skills GROG develop growing up. A trained monkey with a few Photoshop skills could do all that. Is he still an artist, and is it still art?