Oftentimes I cannot help wondering how really crappy artists do so well. Is it connections? Do people like crappy art? Is bad drawing a style now? This is particularly blatant in popular children’s stories and online stationery stores (as I have come to realize while doing checkerboard emails).
Who wants a poorly draw present that is only partially colored in on their stationery? Somebody does. Bu who…and….why? A conspiracy? I-do-not-know. Somebody buys this crap. Is it the senile? Is it the blind…the illiterate? The mafia?
Some people can get away with poor art solely by the humor factor- such as the “Intermission in the third dimension” flash that I am about to give you a link to cause it is funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODBPZZQ52I4
But. But why these other crappy art stuffs? There are sooo many better artists. Honestly, who cannot draw a box with a ribbon? And…maybe…Maybe! Color it in. Really now. I bet you could even color it in all the way! I bet! Yeah! It makes me want to make a whole bunch of decent present and cake drawings and send them to them for free just to relieve the public of the wretched misshapen art-covered paper items drooling on the market. And this! From me, who doesn’t really care about the market…cause I don’t buy stationary. [get way too many in presents anyway- and I buy 1337 quality postcards from deviant art instead] Yay, I said it. 1337.
Anyway. How about children’s books? They aren’t all bad; a lot of them are pretty decent but…what about those horrible ones…or maybe even the horrible ones that [oh god!] get awards. I saw this film piece in some story-gone-movie dvd by brother has. The famous illustrator demonstrated how he failed to draw a circle and then he developed his characters from there. So there are decent/good/omgwtfbbq starving artists who are notoriously not recognized until after they die…and then there are craptacular artists sketching while on the plane to their vacation home in Montana. The injustice!!
I guess I will have to add them to my black list. Right under the loan companies…
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Just so you know, Don Hertzfeldt is a genius.
Have you seen his film 'rejected'?
Also, bad art is edgy. People are tired of immaculate watercolors; they are too somber. I suppose it's fine if you're sending a "sorry that your family died in a stampede" card, but most cards are "happy birthday" and "yay, you're blood test was negative!". Bad art is whimsical and cheerful. Plus bad art contributes to the "thought counts" factor which greeting cards seem to epitomize; I'm giving you my regards, not a piece of framable artwork.
As for children's books I can only assume that adults think children are stupid, bored by intricate or accutrate pictures, or hire cheap illustraters (If one is hired at all).
In Hertzfeldt we trust.
-John Kenso
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