Comments on: Instruction: Wash Painting- In Praise Of Happy Accidents

By: Shawn Luke

Shawn Luke — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:25:22 +0000

This is a great, amazing article. Thanks a tonne, Steve and Mike. I love the illustrations and the insights. I book marked and am going to follow the lesson when I have a chance. As far as digital painting is concerned, perhaps too many artists lean on the technical side of the digital attributes and not enough on the artistic ones. It’s easy to do when you have a deadline looming, but I think as artists get more experience and comfortable, the art improves and the reliance on program techniques diminishes, or gets integrated towards making better art.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:52:04 +0000

I agree with Patricia. Your not fair in this article. You grab one example of bad digital work then insinuate that is how it is everywhere. You are doing a dis-service to digital artists.

The computer isn’t ink paper or canvas; nor is ink paper and canvas a computer. You are comparing apples to oranges, oils to acrylics, drawing to painting, painting to photography. Not appropriate.

Sounds to me, someone is yearning for pre-comp days. And fine art days they were too. But there is still a bunch fine art going on out there today both on paper and canvas, and on computer.

See my article, “Who’ll Stop The Train”, it’s on my site, you have the link.

By: Stephen Worth

Stephen Worth — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:17:56 +0000

Glad it was useful to you!

By: Rory Walker

Rory Walker — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:42:39 +0000

Hello,

I was very interested in this post, and figured it high time that I tried doing this for myself, so I’ve spent a very enjoyable evening going through all the tutorials and done my own versions. What fun! Here they are in all their monochromatic glory -

http://roryroryrory.blogspot.com/2011/02/famous-artists-on-wash-painting.html

Thanks for this, I always wondered how Chas Addams did his drawings, and now I think I’m a little closer to knowing.

Cheers – Rory

By: Stephen Worth

Stephen Worth — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:10:15 +0000

I have nothing against digital art at all. My objection is to the concept that a technical medium should be overseen by technicians and not artists. I want CGI to reach the level of animation that was the standard in the golden age, but it just hasn’t gotten there yet. Hand drawn animation has slid backwards too. This isn’t the fault of the artists. It’s the result of the artists’ input being marginalized within the production system.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:16:17 +0000

I find the article’s bias against digital art to be quite unfair. A talented artist is a talented artist, no matter if the medium is paint, pixels, or pee splattered on canvas. You act as if those who paint on the computer don’t have respect for traditional painters. Digital artists (if they are using an illustration program such as Corel or Photoshop, and not simply cutting and pasting from Google Images) still learn and utilize the principles of art, and it still requires a great amount of skill and effort to create a digital painting. While I greatly admire these beautiful paintings, I’ve seen many pieces of computer art that are equally beautiful. We live in a post-Toy Story world where computer artists and animators have produced works as breathtaking as those created by their traditional-artist counterparts, yet this post seems like it was written back when John Lasseter was booted off ‘The Brave Little Toaster’.

I find this bizarre antipathy to computer art not only close-minded but archaic as well- I thought the fear of the “evil” computer died out in the 1980s. In the future, I sincerely hope you are more respectful of artists who work outside of traditional media.

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