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> Gilles Tran wrote:
>
>> I prefer mute, expressive images - but then it's much more difficult to 
>> do and requires actual drawing skills.
>
> ...says Gilles Tran, the noted POV-Ray artist... ;-)

Well, one of the reasons I ended up doing 3D was that my drawing skills were 
just not good enough to make the kind of hand-drawn art I wanted to do, 
lacking both the natural talent and the formal training.

The good thing about digital art is that one can always say "Poor me can't 
do better because I can't afford X [sofware/hardware]" while with hand-drawn 
art the only person to blame for the lack of results is oneself ;-)

(and even if you're good at it: I was once at a book signing of the French 
comic book artist JC Mezieres. He was friends in art school with comic book 
legend Jean Giraud/Moebius (who could draw blindfolded with both hands tied 
in his back) and when asked about the experience he answered "Picture 
yourself being in music school with Mozart." Sometimes one cannot win.)

G.

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