>>53771760Proper illustration is incredible hard skill. In fact, I dont think it is even a skill, I dont believe you can illustration. Primitive people often say Kinkade was illustrator or they call any piece/rendering from "fine-art" category illustration, because it is easy to cheaply throw this term around when you dont actually understand or care what does it mean. Illustration meant to illustrate, to tell a story and tell it well. You can learn to repeat mechanically the surface motives of all the illustration you saw but it will never be a proper creative illustration, at least I dont believe so. I think in order to properly illustrate you need to be born with a tiny speck of such talent, no matter how small, you can later grow and cultivate into something bigger. But if you dont posses it to begin with then all you can produce will be soulless golems that imitate, no matter how good it is painted in the end.
I did not force that artist to try something he knew he can't pull off. And when I simply observed the noted the fact, he got upset. Random bystanders got mad. Yes, I agree, it is not really fair to be born without specific talent but genetic lottery never was or will be fair. Some people live the healthiest life and die to cancer in their early 40s, some smoke and drink like a pig and live up to 90s. It sucks, but nothing we can o about objective state of things. If someone does not "feel" how to properly illustrate ideas, nothing much you can do about it. That's fine tho, you can still learn to draw and paint.
But illustration of an idea in still image is hard.
