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Post by mushroom on Jan 20, 2003 13:38:25 GMT -5
I read an article this week in the Neopian Times (issue 74) that was rather negative about cut-and-pastes. I don't really understand what's wrong with them. Cut-and-pastes can be slopped together, but so can something hand-drawn; you can spend a lot of time drawing an original, and you can also spend a lot of time on a picture using a Neopets picture as a base if you're awful at drawing but like to color things in.
What about entered art requests? Why is asking someone else to do all the work for you less disliked than doing a lot of it yourself and using the Neopets images as a base?
Would anyone else like to offer their opinions?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2003 13:57:12 GMT -5
I read an article this week in the Neopian Times (issue 74) that was rather negative about cut-and-pastes. I don't really understand what's wrong with them. Cut-and-pastes can be slopped together, but so can something hand-drawn; you can spend a lot of time drawing an original, and you can also spend a lot of time on a picture using a Neopets picture as a base if you're awful at drawing but like to color things in. What about entered art requests? Why is asking someone else to do all the work for you less disliked than doing a lot of it yourself and using the Neopets images as a base? Would anyone else like to offer their opinions? There is nothing wrong with cut and pastes. Acctually, that is precisley what the instructiond tell you to do. I think by thinking in that way is denying someone with less artistic tallent than others the right to participate in an open compotition. |
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Jan 20, 2003 14:18:25 GMT -5
It takes a LOT more creativity for a cut-and-paste to merit the same appreciation of something that was drawn free-style. It happens occasionally, but for the most part people just don't work as hard on cut-and-pastes as they do on free-style pieces. And, technically, the beauty contest SHOULD be about artistic skill. I DO disagree with people who submit gift art: I think THAT is just plain wrong.
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Post by calvinseviltwin on Jan 20, 2003 14:19:56 GMT -5
It takes a LOT more creativity for a cut-and-paste to merit the same appreciation of something that was drawn free-style. It happens occasionally, but for the most part people just don't work as hard on cut-and-pastes as they do on free-style pieces. And, technically, the beauty contest SHOULD be about artistic skill. I DO disagree with people who submit gift art: I think THAT is just plain wrong. Unless they have the artist's concent. But I never enter the beauty contest anyways. |
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Jan 20, 2003 14:22:02 GMT -5
Unless they have the artist's concent. Even then it's a bit pathetic. You should have to WORK to get your trophy. I suppose it's a bit different if the art was aquired in an art trade rather than just an art request,. |
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Post by calvinseviltwin on Jan 20, 2003 14:25:38 GMT -5
Even then it's a bit pathetic. You should have to WORK to get your trophy. I suppose it's a bit different if the art was aquired in an art trade rather than just an art request,. true... |
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Post by starchild1 on Jan 20, 2003 14:32:04 GMT -5
I just think that in order to get the pretty trophy, people should work for it. I mean cut and paste- it doesn't take as much work if you can draw. I wouldv'e enter like a million times already, but I don't own a scanner.
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Post by Tdyans on Jan 20, 2003 15:31:28 GMT -5
What about entered art requests? Why is asking someone else to do all the work for you less disliked than doing a lot of it yourself and using the Neopets images as a base? I'm with you on this point. If you can't draw, cutting and pasting is wrong, but having someone else do all the work for you is okay? Unless I know the person, I don't usually vote for cut-and-pastes or for pictures that were drawn by a different artist-- but I'm not going to force that criteria on anyone. But you're right-- if people who can't draw should be allowed to enter on one basis, they should be allowed to enter on another. And someone can show skill with a cut and paste too, I suppose. |
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Post by Linnen Malfoy on Jan 20, 2003 19:15:58 GMT -5
I personaly don't like cut-and-paste pictures. Why should you win when you just add a bow to a Cybunny (which prolly took five seconds) and then win against someone who prolly took about 3 hours on their picture?
I mean, if someone acutaly worked hard on a cut-and-paste, I wouldn't care, but 99.9% of them are not worked on, they're just entered for the trophy (my case in point: An Ixi won second in species for a cut and paste where the ONLY diffrence was that they colored the circle around it black...)
Gift art I honestly don't mind. Someone at least worked on it, so I suppose I don't mind...
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Jan 20, 2003 20:22:48 GMT -5
Gift art I honestly don't mind. Someone at least worked on it, so I suppose I don't mind... But that SOMEONE is not the person who will get the trophy. :[ How would you feel having worked for three hours and seeing someone who spent no time at all get a nice shiny trophy in their cabinent rather than you? :[ |
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Post by calvinseviltwin on Jan 20, 2003 20:24:42 GMT -5
But that SOMEONE is not the person who will get the trophy. :[ How would you feel having worked for three hours and seeing someone who spent no time at all get a nice shiny trophy in their cabinent rather than you? :[ It's really controversial if you ask me. No right or wrong way |
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Post by lupe on Jan 20, 2003 20:39:54 GMT -5
I almost lost to one -- and believe me, it was a sad excuse for a pciture...
Can you possibaly vote for my ixi and/or peophin?
neopets.com/beauty/details.phtml?pet=Faerie_Dust_Wings
neopets.com/beauty/details.phtml?pet=Ariel_sea88
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Post by Lappi on Jan 21, 2003 16:31:00 GMT -5
I almost lost to one -- and believe me, it was a sad excuse for a pciture... Can you possibaly vote for my ixi and/or peophin? neopets.com/beauty/details.phtml?pet=Faerie_Dust_Wings neopets.com/beauty/details.phtml?pet=Ariel_sea88  Advertising AGAIN? |
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Jan 21, 2003 16:50:36 GMT -5
I almost lost to one -- and believe me, it was a sad excuse for a pciture... Can you possibaly vote for my ixi and/or peophin? neopets.com/beauty/details.phtml?pet=Faerie_Dust_Wings neopets.com/beauty/details.phtml?pet=Ariel_sea88 You're borderline spamming, don't you know. . . -.-;; |
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Post by calvinseviltwin on Jan 21, 2003 16:51:35 GMT -5
You're borderline spamming, don't you know. . . -.-;; Yeah |
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