Post #597461 by tikiyaki on Wed, Jul 13, 2011 11:52 PM

I'm with Swampfire and Tobor64 on this....

Having been a big Fan of Doug's for a long time now, to me, there is no way a hack with a good working knowledge of Photoshop (ie : ME for example) could ever create a Doug Horne art piece on the computer. If the artist is talented,his or her talent will come through whatever medium...ie a Doug Horne Painting. It's drawn by hand,but facilitated though digital means.

Just like when I saw Tobor64's pieces for the Halloween art show....I was shocked when he told me it was done on the computer....again...not just ANYONE can do that.

It's the same in the music world,tho' I think there is alot more ability to fix bad talent in digital music creating. Even so, it is THE current medium for making music...and it's certainly allowed me to have an actual career making music without having to deal with anyone in the way of my creative process...ie: pain in the ass singer, bad recording engineer etc....

So I say, if you're freehanding it with a tablet, you an artist...period. Painting over and manipulating existing images, well, maybe we call that a "Digital artist" ?

Interesting discussion tho'...