Lol...I know what a sketch tablet is. I use a Wacom tablet myself. Have you read the articles on the page? For example, right by the Angelina Jolie painting, they said this about the artist Wayne Forrest:
Quote:
|
Wayne is a photographer and artist. His work ethic comes from 21 years of Service in the Canadian Military. No messing around and getting the job done. He uses Adobe Illustrator to create his drawings which also known as vector graphics.
|
See? That's what I'm talking about. I'm not saying I don't consider it "art." I definitely still appreciate it, but before I give it a certain level of credit, I'd like to know the process by which it was made. I guess it's because I'm a freehand artist myself. I haven't drawn anything in a LOOONG ass time but when I was younger and in school, I used to draw pencil and paper drawings (freehand) that almost looked like black and white photos (not kidding). These days, people can "draw" or "paint" things on actual paper or canvas, but you don't know if they first used Photoshop to turn the photograph into line art and then printed the line drawing on an actual paper or canvas so they can use as a "guide" before they start tracing or "painting" over it. To me, as someone who actually freehands meticulously by just looking at an image and trying to duplicate its proportions, any kind of machine "help" like that makes it so I can't give them the fullest credit. Like they can never be a 10 but they can be a 9 because the shit is still art and it still takes some kind of skill to know how to use the softwares like they do. For example, if that dude who did the Angelina painting did it all freehand with traditional media and methods, then he's possibly the greatest painter in the world. But knowing that he had help, I can only say he's perhaps the greatest "digital painter" but not necessarily the greatest painter.