drawing bad on purpose
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- bodega
don't pretend you don't know what i'm talking about.
what's up with this.. i'm not talking about stylized or ambiguous illustrations.. i'm talking about underground shit, or stuff that looks like it was drawn by your 3 year old daughter. i see it fucking everywhere, when i was in artschool i'd get kicked out of class for drawing such shit. it may sound like i'm trolling but really when i saw mesh caps on ebay going for $60 (and horrible ones at that, if you'd imagine..) it would remind me of all the limited editions and fuck knows what else bullshit people so go for these days.
you know what i'm talking about.
(i'm not talking about badly drawn typography, that is a whole different story).
discuss.
anyway.
- unknown0
the mainstream phenomena.
its will always be there, its purpose is to shorten the lifespan of anything good and to make ordinary people feel like they are the cutting edge of fashion in a 'I'm fitting into my tribal group' type way.
gotta laugh at it really, cos it doesn't really matter, its just a load of superficial bullshit.
- corin0
I don't knwo what you're talking about? can u give an example?
- bodega0
i would but most of who i have in mind are "well-known" and i am running out of emails to register new ntd accounts.
corin i wish i had a plush of that whale on your website.
- sexypixel0
if my kid drew that i'd put him up for adoption
- unknown0
I suppose it is trying to personalise things the way say handwriting does over a machined font, but I agree it is everywhere and there is no need for it, bad illustrators must be rubbing their hands!
- vespa0
It depends on your definition of "bad". I think as commercial designers we get blinkered a bit and think that only commercial styles are "good".
For instance would you say Julie Verhoeven is bad at drawing?
- Blofeldt0
I like it. And you know it's just a style. Lots of people thought Picasso was total crap when he started. Cubism was originally an insult.
- crapmeister0
ever seen work from the Cobramovement?
- dstlb0
Are we talking about stuff like http://www.neasdencontrolcentre.… and http://www.mr-bingo.co.uk/ ? I wish I could draw that badly, I love their work.
- unknown0
Neasden are proper fookin bo!
seen the book? - nice.
- unknown0
But it's the age old designer v artists?! artists have there own problems to solve whilist us as designers are faced with peoples problems, style and aesthetics add valve humour etc, but illustration/graphics led by the zeitgeist like the ones in question are just crammed and sqaushed into all aspects of designculture/society until complete saturation (this is normal when say, you see bad scrawled illstration on t-shirts in next) i'm just sick of seeing it, it seems a waist of a skill if you illstrate bad on purpose!
- unknown0
I'm a big fan of 'valve humour'
- unknown0
Whoops
Should have read: value, humour.I was too busy ranting, sorry!
- vespa0
"it seems a waist of a skill if you illstrate bad on purpose!"
Again it depends on your definition of "bad"... I draw with my left hand a lot (I'm right handed) and because I'm forced to draw really slow and loosen up the lines become much more sensitive. "Badness" in that sense is just another technique, to be used when appropriate.
- zeroblade0
let's just say one man's meat is another man's poison.
it either speaks to you or it shows you a colour you didn't want existed.
- unknown0
I suppose, but I was refering to people who change their style to fit the zeitgeist, because then drawing badly would become a skill to that illustrator, they would have to try make things look bad where as just drawing bad if you can't draw is eay, if that makes sense.
- Blofeldt0
So this is shit is it?
You art school must have been fucking crap if they would've thrown you out for being a great Cubist!
Well said uncle_helv
- nessdog0
I like some of it. It's used a lot in skatemags and deck design... like toy machine, crailtap, Gonz steez etc etc.
http://www.skateboardcollector.c…
- ********0
what's cool to one person, isn't cool to another. Art is whatever you make of it. :)