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Inspiration Taken The Wrong Way
14 years ago
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Dearest Mother,
How it going, so October begins, It's pretty exciting yet it fucking cold at the same time.
So today i'm writing to you to talk about a subject that I see popping up around lately
Well It appears that alot of people are inspired by the art that a certain artist produces, however for many, they can or could take it too seriously.
Not saying being inspired by a person is a bad thing, cause it helps better a problem that they had, and they tend to fix it or rather help them draw more fluidly and bit more intelligent.
But there's difference between marking a piece as a inspirational and full out copying.
I knew this person who would mark it's works as a inspiration from a certain artist, when I took a closer look and it looks like the person just fully copied that artist on certain areas (almost all really).
It quite sad to see really, the artist doubt itself on many levels and was scared to take risks, just until recently the person tried newer things, which was cool, but didn't exactly grasped them correctly to how I would see fit the person's style.
The person would ask me many things too, which I respected and answered but, I also felt the person wasn't being inspired for all the right reasons...just copying to impress that certain someone.
But really though I continuously see pieces from others that resemble another artist's style, I don't even wanna get into the day my friend found out someone took one of her pieces and copied it exactly for a commission the person did for someone, and it's funny, cause the person noted her and said "Your works are inspiration" and link her to the image he claimed was inspirational.
It's rather ass backwards and pretty downgrading to her, she didn't like how it was used to another one's advantage rather than boosting.
If you find inspiration then that's cool, but keep in mind when your inspired, you wanna better your artistic view, not exactly copy the style.
Make the style unique, something that equals out to yourself.
Well then Mom, I think that's enough for now, hope you enjoy this when you read it.
Also could you send your awesome sugar cookies next time, I freaking love them!
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"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind." -Johannes Brahms
Mess1ah
~mess1ah
"GO SHOVE THAT QUOTE UP YOUR ASS JOHANNES" - MLP artists.
PerryStudios
~perrystudios
Amen.
