prodigy, 2

[egypturnash]

Lots of interesting thoughts on yesterday's entry about the seeming lack of visual arts prodigies.

Here's a thought I had regarding the lack, after going through more replies than I thought there were (LJ's being slow on the notification mails): To be a good artist, first you must learn to see like an adult; then you must learn to see like a child again.

And these things have to happen in sequence; by their nature, they can't overlap. And they take time.

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think about my old art from when I was a kid and it had a lot lacking. I've never been impressed by kid's art; I've never warmed to 'outsider' art either. I'll agree that Popular Culture sucks that desire to create, and swallows the creativity of a lot of people who do try to make stuff anyway - go trolling around open-access art sites, and you'll see a lot of stuff that's entirely working off of [popular kid show of the month].

I am, I admit, biased towards Good Composition and Knowlege of Anatomy and Construction and all that - and yes, I can sometimes be a hypocrite who barely uses these things and essentially defends herself with "but it's my style!".