Today I was talking to an old lady friend of mine who is half my shrink and half my adopted mother.
We often talk about my personal issues and I appreciate her advice.
We talked about my art and she has the opinion that I could be a successful artist if I had more confidence in myself. Which is partially but not entirely true.
I was saying the chances I ever land an art job is very small considering my age and lack of formal art education compared with all the young and well-prepared artists I would have to compete against.
Of course, she loves me and she thinks my art is the greatest ever, but she has no frame of reference, so I showed her some of the best furry art here to help her understand how many artists are out there who are much better than me. She was really impressed by some of the stuff so I explained her some basics of digital art and how I'm way behind the average in my digital and 3D art skills.
So she insisted I could be as good as them if I try hard enough and learned to use the same computer programs as the good artists.I tried to explain that even if I learned to use the programs and techniques I could still not be that good, because the main thing is not what program you use, is your artistic talent.
However I had problems explaining that part in words.
It's not as easy as it sounds, because talent is a hard thing to define. For the layman it looks very easy, you just have to learn whatever program they use and you'll doing stuff that looks like theirs.
So this is the way I tried to put it.
I could spend several years studying music theory until I recognize every note on the scale and how to play it in a piano, but I would still not be capable of composing like Mozart.
I could learn everything that there is about the technical part of singing opera, but that would not give me the voice of Caruso.
I would practice running every day and never grow the legs of an Olympic athlete.
There are things that are not learned, there is something there that is not acquired with either theory or practice. There is a little knack there that some people have and other's not.
I have my own knack for some particular kinds of art (like silly cartoony comics) but I know I don't have what it takes for some other styles, like realistic painting or porn. I just don't have it. I could get kind of close with lots of practice, but I would still need a great effort just to produce something mediocre in genres where other artists are naturals.
Talent is not a learned skill or a reflex you gain by practice. There is a little something there that you are kind of born with it.
Don't you think?
Do you agree with me?
How would you define talent if you had to explain it to my friend?
P.S: Yeah, I showed a 75-year-old lady porns, including but not limited to things she didn't know existed like futanari and hardcore anthro versions of MLP, which she found amusing too.
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17 Oct 2018 23:04 CEST
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