layonhands:
centaur-butts:
barkentin:
layonhands:
a lot of the art styles i’ve seen for wow commissions are looking an awful lot like Whinecraft’s style…. hmmmm
If you want to call someone out, you should call them out, and not vaguepost like this.
I don’t know if…
Take some art history classes about the way art changes over the years. It’s kind of interesting, and might help you learn more about how art and inspiration works. There’s a reason art is grouped by stylistic movements. Impressionism, expressionism, romanticism, the danish golden age, modernism, surrealism, post modern art, neo-classicism, fauvism, cubism, art neauvou, art deco, abstract, kinetic, baroque, dada, folk art, harlem rennaissance, rococo, etc. etc. etc. There are literally thousands of artistic movements.
What these are, are an infusion of a new style, a new technique and a new way of thinking into the artistic community. It spreads like fire through the artists and creates a ‘movement’ of a particular type of style. The easiest example of Art Nouveau. You see that style EVERYWHERE, it’s influenced damn near every artist you see. It’s also widely accepted that Alphonse Mucha is the ‘father’ of the Nouveau movement, pushing that style into the public’s acceptance and making it something that people enjoy and want to see more of. Paving the way for other artists to utilize those techniques in their works as well.
Monet is seen as the father of impressionism, and many incredible works came from the movement he spawned.
There’s an entire movie based on the life of Georges Seurat, who created pointilism and founded the neo-impressionism movement. I highly reccommend you watch the movie, it’s called Sunday in the Park with George adn it’s really wonderful.
The point I’m making is.. educate yourself people. Artists are an incestuous lot when it comes to creation, with lots of borrowing concepts and styles, techniques and tools from one another. Where the problem comes in is when people *literally take the work itself* and pass it off as their own.
And for budding artists. Don’t worry about mastering your own style. It will come in time, particularly with education. You’ll learn how you prefer to handle lines. Do you like the more illustrative work? Or do you prefer realism? Pointilism? How do you shade? Do you exagerate your figures, or do you chose to be as precise as possible? There are countless variables that go into what ‘style’ is, and the only way to develope a style is to learn about as many techniques and ways of using your tools as possible, and let your heart guide you into what feels the most comfortable.
… sorry to ramble. I’m an old lady who hates to see things like this pop up over and over again. FOR FUCKS SAKE TAKE ART HISTORY IT ACTUALLY HAS PURPOSE.
Shush taking everyone to school.
Literally.
