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I tried sculpting a head once. This guy makes it look so easy — it isn't!

I like the part where he chops off the cranium.

People like this are why I can't stand most artists. For every person who masters a medium and develops incredible skill you have a hundred people who just throw clay at a wall and let serendipity do their art for them.

^that's ignorant.

I would love to have that talent. I would sculpt all day long. That guy was great. Even half way through his initial sculpt there was already a great sense of personality in his figure.

>> ^Hive13:
I would love to have that talent.


Skill, not talent. Anything can be learned, it just takes time.

watching him sculpt somehow filled me with calmness, but music was out of place.

>> ^shponglefan:
>> ^Hive13:
I would love to have that talent.

Skill, not talent. Anything can be learned, it just takes time.


You are honestly suggesting talent and skill are unrelated?

>> ^Lolthien:You are honestly suggesting talent and skill are unrelated?


No, but unless someone is born with savant-like abilities, talent is a small piece of the equation. Most artists are not born being able to do what they do. They learn like everyone else.

>> ^TheFreak:
People like this are why I can't stand most artists. For every person who masters a medium and develops incredible skill you have a hundred people who just throw clay at a wall and let serendipity do their art for them.

>> ^MycroftHomlz:
^that's ignorant.


Although my experience is lacking in sculpture, this area of thought flows through many mediums. As a painter, and while at art school, I went through this same thing. I would separate it into three groups. Ones that can, Ones that can and have moved on and those who just can't.

Now I paint very realistically. Some like it and some don't. I've been told by some to just give up and become a photographer if I want that level of realism. I understand the opinion but don't agree. Some people get to a point and master a form and then feel the need to break it down and stray from the realism. It is hard to create good impressionism without first knowing your form.

At the same time, and I've seen up close, first hand. There were many people who were in school with me, who just couldn't draw and had no intent in learning because they just found it too hard. They spent a lot of time drawing stick figures and challenging others as to "what is art" they had the concept but no real talent or craft.

Those who can't master a skill, still enjoy and use the arena. Is it successful if no one buys it? I don't know, I just know what I like.

Dad gum hoss! Those are some skillz!

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