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If you read my posting, I said that it's not cheating unless you claim you don't use technology. As someone who teaches and researches teaching, I find it it i

by zedshaw 12y ago

If you read my posting, I said that it's not cheating unless you claim you don't use technology. As someone who teaches and researches teaching, I find it it incredibly disingenuous to teach people that painting is some mystical talent from the wellspring of the soul and at the same time use tons of tricks and techniques to make the image. So yes, people should discount the credibility of outright liars as nothing but con artists if they're going around claiming they can paint "naturally" but end up using tons of tech to do what they do. Especially if those people are teaching art, music, anything. Edit: And yes, I do get a little tingle when I find out someone figured out how to hack something. That's why I'm a hacker, and so were all those painters who figured this shit out 500+ years ago.

anigbrowl 12y ago
But your two examples say little or nothing about their technique and the second one makes no attempt to concept the laptop. There's a lot more to art the technique of getting it onto the canvas; and even the business of getting it onto the canvas is a good bit more complex than just getting the dimensions and perspective correct. I'm not objecting to your getting a tingle when you figure something out, but wondering whether you've substituted knowledge of the recipe for enjoyment of a meal.