Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Considering what modern "artists" can do with procreate, illustrator, ai, etc I think anyone who devotes their life to the traditional mediums is a true artist, because the layers, the blends, the complexities, take so much time and effort. I see my wife work in watercolor, fountain pen ink, colored pencil, etc everyday and it is mindblowing to see the effort put in. She was literally cramping and shaking after finishing a piece the other day.
There is an element of subjective choice. I think those Wyeth paintings are boring and uninspiring but I can acknowledge the high degree of technique and innate talent needed to put out such works. But to reduce someone like Hirohiko Araki to a crafter or a tracer, you might as well be a liberal art school professor. A reason my wife dropped out of art school is because her passion, manga and anime, was looked down upon as not art and 6 years of liberal indoctrination would not have made her a better mangaka, only bitter and miserable and unsure of herself.
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Not art, right? Remember, all art is tracing. You sit in front of a naked woman, you are tracing her. We are just mere mortals trying to approximate God's glory through paints and brushes. We will always fall short, but that attempt, that desperate leap of faith to for a mere moment on paper be immortal...that is art.