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Re: Ask HN: How to Become an Artist?

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Post by vulcan01 » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 1:40 AM UTC

bambax wrote: post #15

vulcan01 wrote: post #9

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Submitted 23 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29770105 (If you scroll to the very bottom of the page, there's a search box.)

Oh yeah ok, but that post didn't have anything to do with art, and the critics weren't about how the shed looked but how it's built dangerously, ignoring many basic security features.

I think runjake was using it as an example of posting your creative work on HN not as an example of art.

(I agree that the criticism was justified.)

Re: Ask HN: How to Become an Artist?

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Post by throwaway894345 » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 3:48 AM UTC

b3morales wrote: post #58

throwaway894345 wrote: post #28

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If you're an artist, you probably care about people connecting with your art, so "marketing of art" seems pretty important or at least understandable. I'm sure there are some myths of famous artists who stumbled into wild success (where "success" means "lots of people connecting with one's art" whether or not the artist makes significant money), but even if those myths are true, I'm pretty sure it's not a recipe othe…

Sure, but starting from that end is like saying "I want to be a millionaire CTO who speaks at conferences" while having no tech experience. To get recognition for doing a thing, you have to begin with doing the thing . And you're not going to make a mark in any field without being aware of what other people are doing.

I don’t think those things are mutually exclusive or that anyone is saying “don’t do the thing” or “don’t be aware of what others are doing”.

Re: Ask HN: How to Become an Artist?

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Post by thraxil » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

systemvoltage wrote: post #54

Unbeliever69 wrote: post #11

MBA Industrial Design here. I think that all art should start with the ability to draw. A foundational book like Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is a good jump start if it is important for your ego to see quick feedback. Like mastering anything, drawing is about repetition. Exercises are key for building muscle memory. I personally like to start with pencil/prisma. Don't get in the habit of erasing. From there…

> A foundational book like Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is a good jump start if it is important for your ego to see quick feedback I completely and unequivocally disagree. This is one of the most misleading books IMO. It gets you to the point where you can draw and feel pretty good about it. It’s easy to verify how people are deluded by this book - the litmus test is as follows: Ask them to draw the same th…

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain isn't frequently recommended because working through it will turn you into a great or even mediocre artist. It's frequently recommended because most people out there without any artistic training can't make it past the first, most basic hurdle of thinking that you have to have some kind of amazing innate "talent" to be able to draw anything more sophisticated than a stick figure. I haven't seen another book that breaks that barrier down and shows that drawing is mostly just a skill that can be learned and improved with study and practice like many other skills as reliably as Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain does. I've seen that change happen for many people (many of whom have gone on to take and enjoy proper drawing classes) with that book but I've never seen any of them "mislead" or "deluded" by it.