anime is an insult to real art

Spotty·10/31/2017, 5:31:29 PM·3 votes·2,388 views

Hear me out. If you look at professional artists, people who have devoted their whole life to practicing, people who used to hand craft their paints hundreds of years ago and then you look at casual people who have a software program to draw, you cant really compare them. Real artists meticulously paint each brush stroke and cannot undo any mistake. Anime people can (and usually do) redo each stroke 20 times before its "just right". I think drawing anime can be a good hobby for some certain people but dont call anime art, because its not.

24 Comments

Engelin10/31/2017, 6:03:13 PM5 votes

Miyazaki films

A Dominatrix10/31/2017, 5:35:53 PM5 votes

anime is life. nico nico nii.

RedPannda10/31/2017, 6:02:19 PM4 votes
Kythers10/31/2017, 5:35:03 PM4 votes

I don't think anyone sane is claiming an average modern anime to be art

My Pet Dinosaur10/31/2017, 5:40:39 PM4 votes

What about people that hand-paint images in an anime style? Older game art was almost exclusively hand-painted. And those images were often in an anime style (assuming the game came from Japan). Are those people suddenly not artists because of the style?

I don't think anime art is the answer to be an artist these days, and I avoid using it myself because I'm a western artist. I do think that people resorting to drawing exclusively anime (who grew up in the west) are doing themselves a disservice, as I believe in originality and it's hard as hell to have an original anime style. Aka 99% of DeviantArt.

I'm not going to say these people can't be artists, though, because they may indeed find their own thing and do it. And who cares what the medium is? Technology changes and people utilize that technology. Is old-timey painting more impressive? Sure, but that's subjective. I hate old art and I think it's boring, save for a few artists, while a lot of art drawn digitally grabs my attention.

Are modern-day motorcycles not motorcycles because they aren't hand-assembled?

HalcyonDweller10/31/2017, 6:04:59 PM4 votes

Anime is art, music is art, movies are art. I wish people would drop all the elitist bullshit and just appreciate art for what it is.

Placentas10/31/2017, 5:51:30 PM3 votes

The real irony is that people who make claims about "real art" are the ones who are insulting art.

Like damn, let people be creative and enjoy what other people have created. Let us experience and share different stories.

Loafs of Pain10/31/2017, 6:26:34 PM1 votes

wrong

69469238DEL110/31/2017, 5:45:12 PM1 votes

"anime is trash, anyone who disputes that is a piece of..who are y- OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU"

Doctor Jarvis10/31/2017, 5:45:22 PM1 votes

So...you don't have a problem with anime specifically, just digital art?

Friendly Ram10/31/2017, 5:53:30 PM1 votes

yay let's make a second spotty thread.