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- Oct 1, 2014
Two points here.
First off, what makes your art cringy isn't the fact that you have the fine motor skills of a duck doing calligraphy, it's the absolutely insane shit you draw and try to pass off as high art. Your highly avant-garde, transgressive Dorito Trauma was (mostly) just ugly, your Literally Whitewash George Floyd (Money Please) is cringy. Anyone else remember the 'good art, bad concept' tag on Socially Unacceptable Art?
Secondly, hate to break it to you, but you having delayed motor skills isn't gonna win you much sympathy from anyone who draws. Iirc I've come across a person tangentially mentioned in another cow's thread (not for being a cow, he just came up) who has to draw holding the tablet pen in his MOUTH and that dude was getting commissions. Please consider you're just bad at art.
You'd be amazed how many of the really high-end working out there have disabilities or conditions that theoretically should interfere with them making art. I knew multiple who were varying degrees of colorblind (ironically, one of them known for his excellent palettes), a guy paralyzed from the waist down, and practically all of them had some flavor of mental issue that they worked around.
I had a teacher once, super recognized award-winning artist. Won't give specifics so as not to make him identifiable, but everyone in this thread has seen plenty of his work. Incredibly skilled, top of his field, his client list makes your jaw drop, known for being able to bust out breathtaking work in timeframes other people can't begin to compete with.
He drops charcoal sticks a lot. Drives him crazy and he's always having to borrow them from people when doing demos for the class because it happens every couple of minutes; he's sketching away, turns to talk for a second, and plink, there it goes. If you"ve seen that funny video of astronauts readjusting to life with gravity, it's a lot like that.
The reason he does this is because as a wee lad, fresh out of art school and already making waves in the industry, he accidentally cut off the thumb of his drawing hand with a table saw.
It's been reattached, thank god, and it functions, sort of. Looks gnarly as hell and the nail is completely black; he has next to no feeling in it at all, so he drops shit all the time because he just can't tell that he's stopped exerting the pressure to keep the pencil/charcoal/brush in place. When it happened, he obviously freaked the fuck out because he saw his entire career disappearing before his eyes.
He taught himself to draw left handed while his dominant hand recovered as best it could, and when he felt like the thumb was as functional as it was ever gonna get, he switched right back over and started drawing with it again. Using that clumsy, blackened, mostly unfeeling thumb, he's built his entire incredible career and is still painting at the highest level decades later. Hes also a really thoughtful, profound, personable guy who's never once tried to use that past misfortune as anything but a reminder to himself that he can and will keep going through literally anything because he loves art more than breathing.
Anyways, shut the fuck up and git gud like everybody else.
She's never pursued art, though. She's just picking it up as a way to pass the time but she's treating her pieces like they're this bleeding-edge works that are even more important because of all her victim points. She has no interest in studying art, she doesn't care about improvement, she's literally the type of person who sees outsider, post-modern or abstract art and is like "Psssh. I could do that," and then she does, and then she gets upset when people rightfully criticize her work for being both child-like and unintentionally nightmarish.
The type of art she's emulating is also falling out of style, and was considered tired almost two decades ago. Metamodernism is really taking off in the art world, evoking renaissance-era aesthetics while commentating on modern society. Yeah, you had a dude last year that taped a banana to a wall, but the dude who took it off and ate it made a far bolder artistic statement, whether he intended to or not.
So yeah, basically Steph doesn't know shit about art, she's playing tourist and is getting mad when people point that out.