/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Talent gets shouted down here and in artistic communities a lot because of how people dismiss skill as talent. It offends most artists when someone says that they were just born with their abilities, when the reality is that they slaved away to train them, and calling them talent dismisses all that work.

Talent in terms of a natural aptitude for different subjects or aspects or art is of course real though. People's minds work in different ways, some just have a way with numbers, or languages or whatever. The same is true within different aspects of art. I used to work next to a girl in lifedrawing who could do incredibly things with colour, could make the skin seem transparent and living and such where mine would be muddy or just flat colour. When it came to working with just strong line and quick shadows though, it came much easier to me than it did to her.

There's also personal experiences, preferences of what they like or subconsciously observe more, different circumstances, whatever. This isn't a level playing field and never will be. If you work hard, you'll get better. People just don't like their hard work being dismissed as talent, a gift given to them by god or something they were born with.

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magical mast Mullins

op reporting in.

seriously. its like im on drugs or heavily dreaming when i see picrelated...

damn