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The discourse is stale - but here's my thoughts on the iPad - a tablet I kind of rolled my eyes at until I got one.
Last year I got so anemic I couldn't pull a straight line. This year I had covid and there were days I couldn't leave my couch.
Last year I got so anemic I couldn't pull a straight line. This year I had covid and there were days I couldn't leave my couch.
I was able to do my work because I had my iPad. Like, straight up - can't even pin any of this on my cintiq. My output last year, this year, is a direct result of the iPad. It offered stabilization when I couldn't draw, and when my stamina was nothing, i could still work.
Our role as educators and professionals should be one of honesty and empathy. Yes. There are things you do not learn when you only work on an iPad. But there are also things you don't learn because you don't have exposure to all forms of art.
No one in comics has ever been like "mmmmm but marie, are you REALLY an artist? You can't do sculpture at all, because you draw digitally." Me knowing how to throw a pot or build some stuff isn't applicable to this form of my art, so no one brings it up.
If I had a dollar for every professional who has laughed at me when I told them I draw digitally, and then GASP when they see me do the SAME QUALITY OF DRAWING traditionally I'd have a livable page rate.
BOOM PISH.
(Go check out @litebox_info for more on this.)
BOOM PISH.
(Go check out @litebox_info for more on this.)
Ultimately, artists sometimes like to just be elitist shit bags for no reason. Sometimes people see talent and get mad it ain't theirs, or want the internet clout, or just wanna feel powerful I guess? So they put people down for the art they do. Which is wild, right?
At the end of the day, we artists NEED other artists to be creating things we can't with materials we haven't gotten to play with yet so we can be inspired to try new things. Rather someone find joy and passion through an art medium i'm not personally into than not do art at all.
I'm not actually here, i'm relaying all these texts to a friend who is NOT an artist and will not be engaging with these tweets after this chain ends.
But honestly, after the year we've all had, I'm just happy folks are finding some solace in art. Please don't stop creating.
But honestly, after the year we've all had, I'm just happy folks are finding some solace in art. Please don't stop creating.
