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Art theory

I've decided to take up drawing. My own drawing is so-so, but I've started to look at other people's work differently. For example, I see simple drawings of cartoon girls as incredibly beautiful, while professional, complex works don't produce the same wow factor. Science explains it this way: a schematic drawing highlights the essentials; clear skin without textures like folds and pores looks better. A schematically correct facial oval, its relationship to the hair, large, brightly drawn eyes, with a schematic or absent nose, and simply drawn mouth and ears, provide a more unambiguous evolutionary signal of attractiveness. In other words, drawing a beautiful woman is much easier than drawing a realistic one. I also think about Pyrokinesis's music. The vocal abilities are very average, the music is neutral, and it's the combination with excellent lyrics that really grabs you. And so I began to think that academia is killing art, forcing people to masturbate to universal expressiveness. It doesn't provide a means of expressing one's thoughts in a form of sufficient quality. Overall, the industry has mastered the art of creating content that's responsive to human perception. But production is too expensive to serve as a platform for universal visual expression. AI draws richly, but unless we're talking about "porn," it's not the richness that's important, but the layout and proportions, which current models are completely unable to master. There's also the pathological idea that an encounter with art should be a separate event, not just a part of life. Of course, a great classical concert can be a stunning emotional rollercoaster, and unraveling the nuances of a painting can be a great intellectual pleasure. Or maybe not. In any case, the transaction cost is high. In short, I need to learn to draw simply and so that all the meanings and sensations I want to convey are clearly visible. Then, from these elements, I can create situations that become separate paintings in a notebook.