It’s time to see who’s more stubborn – the haughtiest art critics or the proudest dinosaur. I don’t think this is going how they expected. Usually the fool has run off crying by now. Luckily we had three pages this week to push the story along to get to what happens next sooner, as we’re in the good stuff now. Last week was an unusually large “why am I still doing this” kind of a downer week. So I kicked it in the pants and spent the whole weekend making some nice pages. And nice they are!
I’ve actually been having a lot of fun making all the “painting” in the background. I got a massive set of ink pens for Clip Studio Paint including dozens of paining brush types. It’s been fun to use them and come up with some interesting results for sure. We’ll see what we can see next week, assuming they’re about to get unfairly kicked out and the story ends there. Note, it probably doesn’t.
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Kyra’s last line pretty much sums up the thinking of every type of critic, art or otherwise.
Or heck, just anyone discussing politics or religion, expert or not.
Channeling our inner anime villian, I see.
I love how the critics are technically right, in that there is a lot to understand regarding the process and techniques of artists that make art of any kind worthwhile, but Kyra’s first impressions aren’t really wrong either as personal observations. It’s the age old battle of objective qualities vs subjective experiences.
Those particular panels were very fun to draw!
Glad to see Kyra is not letting those rude insults get to her. But she is certainly getting to Sir H.
Kyra is right. Art IS subjective.
Critics 2 – Kyra 3
Eh… it’s a little more complicated than that. Art can mean different things to different people, but there’s still a definite science to invoking specific feelings and reactions using techniques and colors. If art is completely subjective, then a two year old’s crayon drawing is just as valuable as the Mona Lisa. Obviously, the crayon piece still holds great value to the kid’s family, and rightly so, but it doesn’t have the skill or technique that went into one of the greatest paintings of all time that’s resonated the world over.
Considering that the way colors and techniques act on humans and not on the whole of nature. It is very subjective. Human consensus on subjective art is due to us reacting similiar to art. There is still variance in it. Of course, but as a whole we interpret colors very diferently to other animals. This is also due to the fact that humans and other animals perceive the world through different kinds of eyes( and brains, which is responsible for the information getting processed)
In that regard, Kyra could very well be in the realms of her perceptional bias towards certain art. Even if her eyes would be identical to ours, her species could perceive them as very different.
And thus when Kyra said “But I say I’m right so that means truth”, despite sounding selfcentered she could be in fact right. I do not know if that was the intention behind her expression, though.
Well, a picture is worth a thousand words so by… using only 1 word you’re short-selling?
Hmm, so the historic mythological paintings are pretty clearly Zelda-themed, but is the one with the boat based off of Phil’s Wind Waker adventures? I was hitting the random comic button on Phil Likes Tacos and came across the March 30, 2003 comic, and thought, “Hmm, this seems a little familiar…”
Maybe it’s just a coincidence and I’m reading too much into it, but it WOULD explain the second guy leaning against the back of the boat there.
Originally it was going to be straight up Wind Waker with Zelda as the second passenger. But it was way too obvious which kind of “ruined” the whole “it’s an ancient painting or something.” So I toned down the colors so it was still recognizable as a reference while still looking like one of those old historic paintings.