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I'm just posting for me now by the way, just as a place to mither, away from the main crowd.
There are four illustrators who are globally revered at the moment.
1: his work I do not like but I appreciate it has a style and a flair. Predominantly vector based.
2. His work I absolutely hate but I can appreciate there is a certain core style to it that was bound to have appeal. Predominantly hand based.
3. His work looks very nice and also looks very hand drawn, but I have long known it is merely pictures scanned in from books and treated to some very basic filtering in PSD(CS3) which is done in a particular order to give it a distinct look A piece of his work can be achieved within three minutes yet it appears he's a master draughtsman. Some of the 'features' of his work are actually telltale signs to the method used, including spikes/trails produced by accident on large format bubblejet printers when printing on a certain type of substrate. So I like the aesthetic, but do not value him at all because he is a fake and could not actually draw a fucking thing to save his life.
4. His work is very fine-art based. He is prolific, very sophisticated in his execution, and he works predominantly by hand with digital finishing. I think his work is tremendous. I absolutely applaud him as a master of the craft. The best.
If was going to be anywhere, I would want to be on the top table with these four people. Two of them I personally consider myself to be eminently more capable than because frankly I could do both of their portfolios ten times over given the justification to do so. The other two I rate and would not consider myself to be more skilled than.
Regardless of my opinions however, the world at large has deemed these four to be 'the best illustrators' right now.
If you were to pick any single piece of work from each of their portfolios and place them on a table, and then pick any single piece of my work from my portfolio and place it amongst them on the table, 100 people would not even once pick a piece of my work as being the best piece on the table. Not once.
This is my problem. I am just not in that league even though I do not even value two of the four I use as a benchmark. My work simply does not have any appeal at all. I have to accept that I do not make the grade. Wanting to be good enough is not good enough. I can't grow wings nor can I grow the natural talent to make pictures that engage people. My very best is average. Average is my very best.
I hate average.