When I drew this, I had just accidentally smashed the fingers on my drawing hand. They weren’t broken or even fractured, thank God, but they were bruised up and bleeding, and the fingernails had come off. These sketch comics were the best I could do for about a week. It took a couple months for my hands to heal up but they stopped constantly hurting after only a few days, thankfully.
I’m not a big fan of picasso either, but at the very least he had /some/ background in academic training. And monet fucking knew color, like a true bamf. Subject matter wasn’t exactly his primary interest.
:I At least that last guy was willing to acknowledge there was extreme technical skill involved with da Vinci’s work. Unfortunately most kids at my art college just kind of dismiss anyone because they aren’t cool enough or some bullshit. They blindly accept anything and don’t bother to think about art, or really seem very interested in what type of actual diligence or training it takes to make an effective painting. Most of them can’t even draw, and don’t really care anyway. To them it’s all about novelty and having “good ideas the teachers will eat up.” which, of course, teachers never do, because they can’t even execute them well enough to provoke anything other than a pitying look. Painting, surprisingly, actually requires practice, and thought, and hard work.
It’s really sad. I wonder why I am here often.
LOL So jaded, I’m sorry! This comic just kind of hit home for me, haha.
BUT ANYWAY I like your comic! I just recently discovered it! I love webcomics and illustration, so thanks for making it <3
I dunno, I’ve always hated Picasso and I’ve never been an art student (and Don’t plan on being, though I pursue a career in Comics and the like.)
I look at some of his older stuff and it’s pretty good, and then go forward into the stuff he’s known for- the cubism and crap, and it’s like.
I was drawing this when I was eight.
I think that he’s mostly famous because he’s the predecessor to this bullshit we have where, like.
OH DAMN
COLORED SQUARES ON A MUDDY BACKGROUND.
AWESOME.
(my aunt makes “art” like that. blows my mind that anybody buys it.)
I mean, at least he was still painting THINGS and PEOPLE, but… uh.
*train of thought falls off a cliff.*