Tonk’s Post Pinboard
Because there’s more than one thing that I wanna have pinned at the same time :V
why the gritty aesthetic? don't know, just having fun
This feels like the kind of PSA id see as a kid in the 80s still barely clinging to the wall in a doctor's office or community center.
So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?
“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”
And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.
Saying "I'm not going to draw this thing because I don't know how to draw this thing" is really shooting yourself in the foot, because you've now cut yourself off from an opportunity to grow.
I had a friend in college who was an absolutely amazing artist. I loved seeing his work! One time I said something to the effect of "I could never do that."
He told me something that, as an artist, I resonate with. He said art isn't about natural talent; it's a learned skill. When you tell an artist their level of skill is impossible for you to reach, you're assuming their level of skill is a natural gifting they have, and it discredits the hundreds to thousands of hours of hard work they've put into getting where they are today, and you're cutting yourself off from trying to reach that point yourself.
guys stop making funny posts I'm scrumbling at work and if I smile at my phone they will shoot me immediately
ALTdamn.
Seeing Tumblr post screenshots get big on mastodon is always hilarious but it's especially so when you see that they obviously don't realize that "-official" is a little game we play around here, and it means nothing.
But yeah sure, Amtrak, the US national railroad company, posted that funny comeback.
