Reality Isn't Always Right

“This is Leonardo Da Vinci’s last supper” I don’t see him anywhere, are you sure he was there

Perhaps We are the people on the other side of the table.

Basically: it doesn't need to look real, it just needs to look cool

Fun Fact: Cats was originally going to be a CGI animated film done by the art director of Kung Fu Panda. You can find some of the original drafts for designs online and it’s absolutely brilliant. It’s a shame it got scrapped.

Everything this man says sounds like hes gonna intro into a skillshare sponsorship

The ghosts of these artists: “Fuck I missed that”

I’m so happy you defended Realism in the way you did, and pointed out that it’s not a “useless” style, and has so much potential for nuance. So many pretentious people that think you can only go full photographically realistic ness or over the top cartoony.

I almost expected him to say "And as always, thanks for watching."

Reality can be whatever I want

"This photo of Stalin isn't accurate either. He was originally surrounded by dissidents that he later purged."

Man, whenever I watch this channel, it always seems to inspire me to paint and test my limits as an artist. Create. Experiment. Fail. Try again. It's hard to do that sometimes, but stuff like this reminds me it's always good to try to test yourself, experiment, and have fun doing it with art, and that it isn't so bad if you can't figure it out yet, you'll get it eventually.

"People can guide you, or misguide you, but ultimately you decide what is right" true on so many levels, not just art.

Solar Sands Merging existential crisis and art in style

"Art is not a reflection of reality. It is the reality of reflection." ~ Jean-Luc Godard

The only thing that still gets me are people who use the "it's my style" excuse when their work is called into question. They break the rules without understanding the rules, which makes their breakage of them meaningless and hollow. I just can't get over the mentality those people have because it reminds me of all those people in my art classes who were only there for the "easy A" and got upset when they didn't get one.

Expanding on the whole food styling thing- we can’t smell through screens and half of the time we find something appetising because of its smell SO products do kinda NEED to be idealised to make up for the lack of scent

At this point I don't even really need art school I can just watch solar sands

Basically DaVinci was one of the first artists to say "It's just my art style"

One of the things I love about Breath of the Wild is that it seems to use a base of hyper-realism but then make it highly fantastical and pastel-styled. It looks really beautiful, and that’s why it’s my favorite version of Hyrule.

Something I wish you touched upon is that the modern obsession with realism extends beyond even just visual art but into other mediums as well. I can't tell you how much I wince every time I hear a film being criticized for having 'unrealistic dialogue' or an 'unrealistic plot', particularly if the plot incorporates elements of magical realism. One of my favorite recent films is 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' yet time and time again people seem to complain about how 'bad' the acting is, how stiff and monotonous everyone speaks. People seem unable to grasp this sort of thing as a deliberate artistic choice that adds an extra dimension to the piece. I'd love to see more creatives out there like Yorgos Lanthimos or Charlie Kaufman, yet if box office numbers are to audiences seem utterly uninterested in anything that experiments beyond conventional depictions of human interaction. Video games seem to be the only medium where subversion of realism is commonplace, mostly out of necessity for gameplay reasons, historical technological limitations, and to avoid tedium, yet as graphics increase in fidelity, there seems to be this large push, particularly from AAA western developers towards this perceived ultimate goal of hyper-realism in both graphics and gameplay (see: Red Dead Redemption 2), and it is likely the reason why most games worth even playing these days are small projects coming out of indie studios.