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Originally Posted by AAC Cadet Leader
Good illustration is a learned skill.
Good art comes from the soul.
Good illustration plus soul makes for good art. Usually.
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Very true.
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Originally Posted by AAC Cadet Leader
But nothing happens without the soul.
Good illustration without soul just doesn’t cut it.
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Also true, but for a moment think of good illustration as a language - good grammer, so to speak - i.e. something to be learned so that we may communicate our meanings intentions in a clear and concise manner so that the majority of people can understand us. If I am unable to express my meanings clearly, then I become like Jodie Foster in "Nell" - innocent and pure with my meaning, but speaking gibberish.
Put another way, I once read a profound quote (I wrote it down but I can't remember who said it). Replace the words "illustration" with "intellect" and "Soul" with "emotion":
Intellect is to emotion what clothes are to out bodies. Clothes without a body are useless, but we certainly can't walk around naked all the time
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Originally Posted by AAC Cadet Leader
Randomly, others get lucky.
Sometimes innocent children and adults with no illustration skills create something that touches other people’s souls. That’s good art, too.
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Here's a rhetorical question: I saw a news report recently about a dog who could paint. Okay, we've all seen such things - animals with paintbrushes in their mouths spreading random color on a piece of paper. The dog is color blind and can't see many of the colors that its spreading around, but if it touches my soul, is it art?