Almighty painter

Chapter 55 Bad Cheap Painter

"Wow, just at the beginning, Miss Elena gave us an unexpected choice."

Thomas looked at the piece of work that Anna had classified as trash.

He turned the frame at an angle and placed it in front of the camera, and showed its close-up to the audience in front of the screen.

"Maybe, in my intuitive view, it's not bad, at least not that bad."

"I think I can give him a 4, maybe a 5. Especially for the price point. I can tell you that Miss Jelena is right. This is what I bought on Fiverr One of three illustrations."

Thomas took out a marker pen from one side and wrote a [5] on the cardboard.

"Professor Sakai, is this painting that bad... At least, it looks okay, right?"

The lady in the suit sitting in the corner of the coffee table chimed in.

She is a middle-aged female translator assigned to the Sakai family by the Yangon Tourism Department.

None of Professor Sakai's family can speak Burmese, but if you want to go shopping, there are not many people who can speak English here.

Everyone is curious.

She had been sitting in the corner of the coffee table like a transparent person drinking her coffee silently, but her eyes had been watching the Youtube video on the phone screen.

When she saw the pretty lady in the wheelchair, she judged a work that looked okay as rubbish, while the Sakai family on the coffee table took it for granted.

The translator couldn't bear his curiosity a little bit.

She finally interjected.

It doesn't look stunning, but it's definitely not bad either.

It uses bright colors and accurate lines to restore the image of a Batman on paper.

The background is the colorful Gotham City.

Gunpowder smoke, thick fog, congested streets, all kinds of elements are very rich. From her point of view, this painting is definitely thoughtful.

At least it's much better than the ten-second scribble of the homeless man.

She didn't understand why this one was eliminated by Anna first.

At this time, a bunch of question marks appeared in the video comment area.

"SMH? SMH? SMH?"

(Shaking my head's comment shorthand, I don't understand, I'm dumbfounded.)
"Why is this the worst picture? I can't agree more. Isn't it ten thousand times better than the homeless man's picture?"

This is a questionable comment.

"I don't care, everything the pretty lady says is right."

This is a comment from Lick the Dog.

"There is a shady scene!"

"FUCK! Now even Mr. Hyperion has to make scripts because of the number of broadcasts? It's so disappointing."

This is a comment attacking [Mr. Hyperion Channel].

"Bullshit... when normal people know who draws better, this chick is a bitch if she's giving me a smack of nonsense right now. Doesn't she know that her evaluation can ruin the A painter?"

There are also many people who take this selection very seriously and cannot accept this choice.

They thought that Anna's choice was frivolous. At least the subjective perception of this painting was good. Why did the other party call this painting garbage so lightly?

Just because she is a so-called "art critic?

Or is it because the aristocratic lady has a stereotyped prejudice against cheap painters on the Internet.

Many people's words are more offensive, and some people are even blocked by the comment area of ​​​​video websites.

"くそやろう (It's all stupid [beep—])."

Sakai Tsunasho glanced at the comments, and subconsciously complained.

Then he was lightly kicked by Katsuko Sakai.

"Gang Chang?"

Uncle Sakai also turned his head sideways, squinting at his son.

"I was wrong, father."

Sakai Tsunasho came back to his senses, only to realize that he had said dirty words in front of his parents, mother, and sister.

He immediately raised his hand obediently, and made a zipper movement on his mouth before his father could sigh.

"It's too bad... It's really too bad. If this is a work of art for me to evaluate, I can only give 0 points. Taking another look is a waste of time."

"Are all part-time online illustrators like this?"

Uncle Sakai then turned his head, faced the translation lady on the side, and explained the reason softly.

At this time in the video,
The scoring for this painting is still going on. After Mr. Hyperion gave a 5, the black brother gave a 4.

Again to everyone's surprise, the insurance security officer also gave a 0 point.

"Although I am a security guard, after all, I am in contact with artworks every day. I can still see what is going on with this painting."

The bearded security officer shrugged and replied to the searching gazes of Thomas and the black brother.

"I think my audience is waiting for your explanation. What is wrong with this painting?" In the video, Thomas finally threw the question back to Anna again.

"Because of this painting, no, this picture. Sorry, I can't even call it a painting, full of assembly line electronic industry atmosphere."

Anna looked at the frame with contempt, and said something harsh.

These damn cheap painters are simply tarnishing the art industry in her heart.

"Electronic industry breath? You mean computer painting? AI, PS..."

"Don't get me wrong, illustration is not painting. I have no prejudice against computer-generated painting."

The girl in the wheelchair stretched out a finger, shook it slightly, and interrupted Thomas.

"Although this painting is obviously printed from an electronic version, the assembly-line electronic industrial atmosphere I am talking about is not a matter of the painting method."

With the rise of the modern computer industry, computers can handle flat superimposed graphics better than painters, and can finely change the grayscale of colors in units of pixels.

From the 90s of the twentieth century, Photoshop, the art color correction software that was first used in Cameron's movies, to LLLustrator in the early 2000s, to the flat-panel drawing tools such as Procreate and Sketchbook that are popular today.

Today, the proportion of people who are still insisting on hand-painting is less than half.

Especially in the field of illustration and comics,

Only a few high-end illustrators who pursue the perfect texture of paper and pen are still using traditional methods to create.

But the problem with this illustration is not that.

"I believe that electronic software should be the Swiss Army Knife in the hands of painters, not the other way around, where painters become marionettes in the hands of machines. That would be better than being a programmer."

Anna said coldly.

"Even for ordinary people, if you have a certain art quality like Mr. Security Officer, or if you are willing to spend a little time and calm down to observe, you can see the twisted and weird hand of Batman holding the dollar in the picture, not only It’s unnatural, and the atmosphere of the whole painting can be called weird.”

The video camera gives a close-up according to Anna's prompt.

In front of the magnified lens, it is easy to see that Batman's hand holding the banknote is twisted into a ball unnaturally. As long as it is a normal person, it is impossible to grow such a hand.

And its texture is completely different from the rest of the picture.

The rest of the picture is more like a colored pencil, while the part on the wrist is closer to the texture of gouache, similar to two different pictures.

Or,

It's more like the hand in the original picture was severed and replaced with a plastic prosthetic.

……

"This is a Ps altered work."

Although all the people present except the translator were professional art practitioners, they knew exactly what was going on with this painting.

But Uncle Sakai politely pointed out the obvious splicing marks to the curious lady translator.

"If I'm not thinking badly, the artist should have randomly grabbed an illustration of Batman from the database, and then uploaded a few pictures and it's done."

Uncle Sakai's tone was also a little unhappy: "To create this painting, you don't need any art skills, you just need to watch a few PS tutorials on YouTube."

“While art circles sometimes refer to illustrators as taxi drivers hired by their employers, even for cheap illustrators, that’s overrenting.”

"If painters are like this, this industry will be replaced by AI sooner or later."

Sakai Tsunamasa concluded: "This is not a good thing for the entire art circle."

Compared with machines, painters must have their own ideas and have their own unique desire for expression.

The significance of painting is not in its external form, but in its ability to reflect the soul of the creator.

Especially from the perspective of the art market, such altered works of PS are completely worthless and have no aesthetic value.

It was reasonable to be hated by that young female art critic.

In the video that continues to play, a line of small text prompts will pop up in the upper right corner of the screen.

[Miss Yi Lianna's reminder, after looking up information in the studio and confronting the artist.It has been confirmed that the original drawing of this painting is from the one-panel comic on page 1948 of "Batman: The Deadly Joke" drawn by the late illustrator Bill Finger in 243.

After turning the original bat hook into a hand holding a dollar, the artist sold the drawing to the channel as an illustrator. 】

[Considering the copyright risk, the mug printed with this illustration will not be put on the shelves of Mr. Hyperion's store, and the channel reserves the right to pursue property losses caused by this. 】

"This guy is miserable."

The cheap illustrators were really unreliable, they dared to use someone else's original painting which was still protected by copyright, and just changed it a few times and sold it as their own.

This is a taboo for commercial drafting.

Sakai Tsunamasa sighed.

He really couldn't understand what these cheap illustrators on the Internet were thinking.

The discussion area on the right also started to turn immediately.

"Idiot, I've said it a long time ago, this beautiful young lady must be right."

"I didn't notice the arm of the drawing at all at first... I didn't expect it to be an altered work."

"I told you that cheap painters are not trustworthy at all. A classmate in my school is still working as an illustrator on the Internet part-time. At his level, I think orangutans are better at drawing than him..."

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