Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
>> But as for my daughter, she may have more potential than I did.  She will 
>> likely never be a Salvador Dali, or Hayao Miyazaki, but perhaps she could be 
>> a Yoshitoshi Abe (one of my favorite animators).  Or maybe she'll change her 
>> mind when she's 16.  Who knows.  I just want to make sure that I encourage 
>> her in the mean-time, and if she does choose to take the artistic path, I'd 
>> like to know what that entails, but I don't know anything.
> Yeah, she will never be any of the folks you mentioned. She will either
> be her self, with her own style and vision, or she won't be in the right
> field. Taking after someone elses style in order to learn a new style is
> fine. Striving to be like another artist leaves your own work feeling
> dull, since your real meaning was to copy, not create.

And yet, for traditional oriental art, copying is considered more noble 
than creating.  Emulating another's style to the point where you can 
make something that they haven't that looks exactly like something they 
would make is a much more difficult task than coming up with your own 
style.  FWIW.  Being like another artist is only dull if you pick a dull 
artist or fail to sufficiently copy their style.

Also, ABe Yoshitoshi's art is pretty neurotic...the needed mindset to 
really draw like that might not be where you want your daughter to go.

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Tim Cook
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