Hey Art Nerd, How long does it take to make a piece of art? *** Yeah, I bet y’all thought I was dead. Can’t exactly blame you, but no. I was busy finishing up my degree and experiencing severe existential dread and living in poverty. You know, normal artist stuff. Now I’m going to mine your […]
Dear Art Nerd, Why do artists feel like art doesn’t need to be pretty anymore? Colleen N. *** Okay, what the hell kind of artist told you that? If I felt like my art didn’t need to be pretty anymore, I would have stopped trying to improve myself a long time ago! But I’m gonna assume that what you mean is […]
Hey Art Nerd, I was hanging out at a museum yesterday (yeah, I’m cool) and was wondering why it took so long for drawings of people to actually look like people. There were Egyptian casks, Greek sarcophagi, and Byzantine mosaics, all with flat people with weird eyes and strange poses. The Greek seems really weird, […]
Hey Art Nerd, I have taken up sketching recently, and I’m getting better at line work. The shapes are starting to come out on the page like they are in my head, know what I mean? But I’m having a hell of a time trying to show what things are supposed to be. How do […]
Dear Art Nerd, Does art matter? *** Well, you see- *** Prove it. -Karen M. *** Oh, for the love of-! Have you ever seen anything that’s ever been designed before? Like, say, a car, a building or a computer case? Almost everything has been designed by some artist in order to be aesthetically pleasing. […]
Dear Art Nerd, My dad found some cable channel full of old cartoons the other day, and as we watched a bunch of Looney Tunes together, I was struck by how fluid the animation was — walking, talking, stretching into bizarre contortions. I grew up on Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh, that kind of thing, and they are […]
Dear Art Nerd, What’s the difference between oil and acrylic and watercolor paint? -Michelle N. *** Well, the names of the paints. There. That’s what’s different. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME YOU’RE A LOVELY AUDIENCE THANK YOU, THANK YOU- Okay, so there’s a bit more to that answer than just the names. Watercolor is cheaper […]
Hey Art Nerd, Why is it so hard to draw hands? -Jane H. *** Oh, Christ, hands. Hands are hard to draw because in order to draw them, an artist must sacrifice their firstborn to the ancient God of Art: Pretenciozan. And then, only then, will they achieve true power. Okay, so hands are absolutely […]