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. […]