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Question: For artists that draw and paint!?
I was doing my observation hours at a high school since I'm going to be an art teacher and I was talking to the art teacher about how technology is being used to make art!. We were having this conversation during class so many students were listening while they were working on their projects!. I was telling her that many students use photoshop as a tool to edit images as an aid for their paintings!. Then I started to tell her that some students also use a projector to help them with a quick sketch of what they were going to draw or paint!. After i said that she started going off on how it was cheating and that it was wronge ( all of this in front of the students) and that the master painters wouldn't agree with that and all this bullshit!. All the students were looking at her so confused was she wronge in doing and saying that!? I don't think thats cheating at all I think it's being smart and efficient!. What do you all think!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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I teach high school art and I teach them how to use technology to help them or enhance their art!. We did a project where I took a digital picture of them and they used photoshop to edit it!. Then they enlarged the picture by using a grid method on a larger sheet of paper!. Then they painted it!. I have also allowed them to use a projector to enlarge images on a larger sheet of paper!. Typically I tell them to just add the main contour lines and then add details on their own!. I think they are just additional tools that artists can use!. I think, my own opinion here, that the only way to "cheat" in art is by tracing an image that already exists or by copying someone else's artwork entirely!. My 2 cents!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
1!. It's OK if you interpret the picture, i!.e!. crop it in a way, or isolate a part of a picture (usually some "persona" and integrate it in another one, etc!. Because then you're still creative!.
Just copy is no art, and no creativity is involved!.
2!. Some known painters use a overhead projector but most of them can draw and they make studies rather!. But it is not forbidden: I could use one for a hand in a special position (like a harpist's) for example!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
She's not wrong in that it's her opinion!. If she did it in a loud/ yelling kind of voice, that would be wrong!. But there are just as many if not more art teachers who teach students to use projectors etc to enlarge images to use for their work!. On the surface it sounds like cheating because you aren't using your own natural skills!. Projectors are used fairly commonly!. I think the bottom line is if you are using these methods as a tool for the early set up of your work or to tweek the final image!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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My husband is both a fine artist (Master's Fine Art) and a web developer!. The job he has is web development, and he uses many of his art skills to do a better job as a web developer!. When he's doing his art, though, it's just him, his pencils and his paper !.!.!. to use a computer to do 'fine art' is not doing 'art' but doing computer graphics !.!.!. not the same thing at all!. But not only are you wrong, because the teacher was wrong, too!. The students should be taught to draw and paint with no computerized 'help' but they should also be taught how the computer can help them become BETTER artists !.!.!. the computer is here to stay, and just because Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso didn't have them, doesn't mean there isn't a 'new and totally different art' that can come ONLY because there are computers now!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
If doing production art, illustration, stuff along those lines it's fine to use whatever tools are available!. It's for a job and "enhancing" things in a computer can save both time and money!.
When you get to fine art it becomes subjective of whats "proper" and what's not!. You get uppity purists that feel as though you're not an artist because you have to do everything by hand!. I'm not a purist and use a projector when I work on big things because I always work things out small first (And I generally work small anyway)!. Does that make me less of an artist!? No, not at all, I'm still doing all the work!. I used to just go for it and lay it out as I went using a vague idea!. Now I want things to be more exact!. it's just a tool that I feel works to my advantage!. I don't use it all that often because as I said I generally work small, but I don't see the problem in using something like this because a projector is still a "hands on" tool!.
I'll admit though that I do have a problem with people that do a piece of work and make it better than they can do it using a computer!. If you're going to do art then learn the skills and techniques to do art!. (I'm talking fine art!.) Half-assing something because you can't do it and fixing it digitally isn't doing art!. Like I said, it's production work!. Learn to do it if you're going to do it!.
Granted this is supposed to be art where the rules are meant to be twisted, broken, and smashed into oblivion!. However, you have to know the rules and techniques before you can trash them!. If you can't do it by hand first then you can't really call yourself an artist!. (It's the whole walk before you can run thing!)
Just an opinion like everyone else here!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
It is wrong for any teacher to get heated like that in front of her students!. Using photoshop to make a reference picture for your painting or whatever is fine!. Using a projector is fine too especially for practice!. It is okay to make your art that way if it isn't about the draftsmanship!. But I still find it is better to use a grid rather than projector!. I feel like I learn more, but whatever works for the person!. I still like to do free drawings and I think they are a little more special than from projection or a grid, but whatever works for the piece someone wants to make!.
It also depends on how big the art is!. A grid is VERY helpful if you piece is bigger than you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
it is not cheeting, it is your way of making a creation!. especially if you put your own sketch on the overhead to upsize it to fit the canvas!. shes an idiot!. sometimes i will make 5 different sketches of the same thing and darken the spots i like then trace over the dark spots on each to get my final outline for the final pictue just so it is exactly what i want it to be!. its your art, art is a way of creating- there are no guidelines and rules to being creative!. just ignore her and let her think what she wants to think!. in the end your art will turn out much better than hers then who will be laughing :)Www@QuestionHome@Com