Thursday, July 21, 2011

Anyone else look at Deviant Art images?

Well, it occurred to me the other day that something a lot of artists do really annoys me.

They draw these evocative images with enigmatic titles, (for example, a weeping man standing over the body of a dead woman with the title, "I loved her so much," or some such.) When you go to read the description all you get it, "this picture took me 4 hours to make, I worked with PS3 with such and such filters, rendered with so and so program."

Drives me bonkers! Not everyone on DA is an artist. Not everyone understands or even cares about the technical details of an image. I want to know what the artist was thinking, what inspired them, basically what this image is all about.

I realize that not understanding the technical aspects is my fault but surely artists must be aware that non-artists visit DA. Don't they think there would be some benefit to attaching a haunting story to a beautiful image?

Anyway, just an observation.