I wanted to get rid of that months old journal as I am now back on leash and school holds the other end.

Now, let the ranting begin!

Rant#1:
Many people seem to think that the peak of one's skills as an artist is to learn how to draw humans (this again, is a rant for some other time) or how to draw realism. Honestly? Realism can be learned and quite frankly ultimate correctness of anatomy is not what all artists should strive for. Yes, I care for anatomy but I am willing to distort it if I want to and if I think it would get the mood right, I'm not a slave to it like some other artists who think that if the proportions and anatomy aren't all top-notch everything will fall apart. I suppose even popular artists on DA expect the usual styles of art or at least imitations of popular ones like anime or Disney
(I'm a big fighter against the "Every artist rips-off" argument). Oh, and skills do not equal talent. Personally I would never call an artists who can paint in hyper-realism, no matter how convincing, talented.


Rant#2:
I've noticed a number of artists absolutely and utterly suck in both concepts and skills and yet somehow seem to get all the good artists to watch them. I'm not being jealous here (ok, maybe a little ), I'm more annoyed that both the artist's skill and lack of originality are overlooked because they draw furries or wolves. In fact, sometimes they are even watched only because they imitate or copy certain great artist's style or at least their concepts and themes! Some of these people even complained about the lack of originality and yet continue to be supportive of such copycats. I suspect most of you have no idea what I'm talking about but if someone does, feel free to convince me this isn't all just in my head.
Note however that this isn't an attack on people who are still learning but rather people who watch bad and sucky artists simply because they do realism or something like that.