I’ve just started playing with an iPad and Apple Pencil, drawing stuff using the program Procreate. I signed up for a FaceBook group of Procreate beginners.
There appears to be a philosophical thread, where someone will have gone to great pains to create a picture that looks photographic in its detail and ask for comments, and others will comment that what’s the point if it looks like a photograph. It should have some of the artist’s own soul in it.
Based on my own beginning experience, that view point is based on a misconception of what a picture is all about. It’s the process of making the picture that’s fun.
It solving all the little puzzles of how to use the tools to render this part of the image and that. These pictures take literally hours of work. It’s not about the finished picture, it’s about the enjoyment the artist had working on the picture.
I’m thinking it’s always been that way. The first cave artists were trying to make the deer as realistic as possible, and enjoyed the puzzle of how to do that with a charred stick. As did Rembrandt with his portraits.
