*scribble* ... plagiarism?
Feb. 8th, 2005 09:37 pmMhm.. actually I am still alive... ><;; And still fully occupied with the Prince of Tennis Doujinshi and DIS:connected.
So. this is kinda ... lifesign...
Anyways I thought about a lot of things. Studying east asian art made me think about a lot of things. One thing is very interesting. My point of view on art is that I hate plagiarism, I hate copying and stealing. It annoys me to no end. ><; Really. BUT I also get ideas and maybe some tricks from others, don't I? I am searching for my own way of drawing while also studying other artists... I always get a bad conscience about it. ><;
But I am studying their art, not stealing, right? I think about what they did to make a picture look like that and what would it look like to use that technique and so on..
But preoccupation with chinese traditional art from Yuen and Song and Ming made me think about that alot... The famous artists of China did copy the old masters... It was a kind of ideal to do that. That really makes me think. I would have said it is plagiarism... but.. is it? I don't know. The idealistic way to paint the traditions is to copy the old masters and to draw in their style...
But does copying makes you a better artist? Even if you copy AND advance on this copying... will it be your own work and style? I don't know and it is a real hard question.
I still have to think about it ^^;
Or what do you think?
So. this is kinda ... lifesign...
Anyways I thought about a lot of things. Studying east asian art made me think about a lot of things. One thing is very interesting. My point of view on art is that I hate plagiarism, I hate copying and stealing. It annoys me to no end. ><; Really. BUT I also get ideas and maybe some tricks from others, don't I? I am searching for my own way of drawing while also studying other artists... I always get a bad conscience about it. ><;
But I am studying their art, not stealing, right? I think about what they did to make a picture look like that and what would it look like to use that technique and so on..
But preoccupation with chinese traditional art from Yuen and Song and Ming made me think about that alot... The famous artists of China did copy the old masters... It was a kind of ideal to do that. That really makes me think. I would have said it is plagiarism... but.. is it? I don't know. The idealistic way to paint the traditions is to copy the old masters and to draw in their style...
But does copying makes you a better artist? Even if you copy AND advance on this copying... will it be your own work and style? I don't know and it is a real hard question.
I still have to think about it ^^;
Or what do you think?