Quote - > Quote - professional critics and galleryholders usually don't have an academic degree on arts, or perhaps they are artschool dropouts, but they have an excellent eye how to promote or sell art.

considered a critical art fave.

 

Here's the link that made me question the value of criticisms from artists who aren't as good as the artist that they're critiquing.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=219323&page=1&pp=15

Although an artist doesn't have to be DaVinci to critique a work, it means a lot more when the critic has demonstrated considerable expertise with their own work.

i agree it would be nicer if a master modeller gave crit but....

 

a critique comes in two forms. one critiques what the picture does or does not do for the viewer by way of asthetics. does it look right to the eye. is it in proportion. is the left eye where it should be. is the shadow where it should be. anyone can do a  decent crit on these things because everyone has indeed had the exeperience of seeing these things as a common place feature of living in a world where they exist as a reality.  everyone knows what a face should look like. the reason  faces are much harder to do is exactly because something wrong with a face will be spotted much sooner than something wrong with a leg.. the reason being, we look at faces more than legs.. in fact we stare at faces for a large part of our lives. that we can't represent what we see onto paper is a matter of hand eye co-ordination or lack of it. in many cases a person can have a great eye for art and be crap weilding a pencil, in fact he can have a better eye than the artist. what people are doing here is  confusing the creating of art with the discerning of it. as an analogy. ...i get brought a great looking....i say it tastes rubbish...another four people in the resteraunt say the same thing...way too much salt...mistake or oversight bt the chef...who know, the thing is people who didn't create the meal were discerning enout to taste the extra amount of salt...these comments gets passed on to the chef  and the next time i eat there that dish has the right amount of salt.

 

the other way to critique is by comment on the craft. what was used, how was it used. in this case poser. these comments should only be given by those who know their craft. ie. poser and other apps.  to say post work is only done in a paint program is a bit like saying mechanical work is only carried out on a car in the a specific garage.  by craft i  mean the best render engine, light settings and all the other side of how you call things up and correlate them to get an end pice of art. i took a look at the url and wow. the quality of it blew me away. from a technical point of view. that said if i saw someone walking down the street with some of the things i saw from an asthetic point of view i'd have to take a second look.  is it artistic. yes definitely so from both aspects of critique.

 

billy