let me go ahead and just get comfy because this is gonna be a long video a lot of talking in this
video even the dog is getting comfy right now if you've clicked on this video you're probably
wondering why it's from my channel if you've been subscribed to me for a long time you're probably
very confused as am i haha and if you're new to my channel i usually don't do videos like this the
type of videos that i usually make the bread and butter of this channel are usually art hack videos
where i test out really ridiculous art hacks so here we go *egg hits canvas and doesn't break*
i do art historical videos where i test out really old art supplies i test out really
weird inexpensive and unique art supplies that you've probably never heard of the main focus
of those videos are usually surrounded by products and themes but for today's video
i want to get more personal with you guys i want to show you who rae dizzle the artist
is i know for me personally whenever i watch youtube i really enjoy hearing other people's
opinions hearing people's takes on things i love learning getting new perspectives i may or may
not love getting a little tea i've been wanting to make this video for a while i just haven't i
don't know just haven't been brave enough i guess i feel kind of like a lawyer in the court of law
and i'm about to present my case to everybody but yeah today for the first time on my channel
i am going to share my unpopular art opinions and before this video begins if you have an unpopular
opinion uh put it in the comments down below i will be responding to a lot and i also want
to emphasize before this video starts that i'm not...i'm not good at words at all i can hardly
speak half the time so at some point in this video i'm sure i'm gonna say something slightly
wrong or incorrectly and if i do feel any need to explain myself further i'll put it in the comments
like i said i'm terrible when it comes to like talking so yeah with that being said let's start
okay i got my list ready first unpopular opinion copic markers are not the end all
be all perfect marker we're starting off hot are copic markers one of the best art supplies
absolutely yes i 100 agree with that sentiment but i don't think in a lot of scenarios that
they're the end-all be-all marker choice for everybody copic markers are very very expensive
and anybody who's ever worked with alcohol-based markers knows that it adds up very quickly each
individual marker can range anywhere from like six dollars all the way up to eight dollars and
unlike paint where you can just like mix two colors together that's not really the case when
it comes to markers and when i say they're not perfect for everybody in every situation i'll give
an example i know for myself and a lot of other illustrators out there when you do illustrations
there is a lot of color blocking involved and i'll show some examples of just like a pure solid block
and in that scenario if you're just going to be doing like a solid application of one color you
don't need to mix you don't need to blend you just need a solid line when it comes to drawing
techniques like that i personally would reach for a much cheaper marker like an ohuhu for me
personally i'm going to get the exact result that i need which is a solid blank color but i'm not
using my eight dollar marker my whole paycheck so in my opinion are copics amazing yes 100
we stand but are they the perfect marker for every single scenario for everybody i'm gonna
have to say in my opinion i don't think so my next unpopular opinion if you are an artist you don't
have to pursue art as a career a lot of us growing up who had talents or natural inclinations to
things like for example if you're good at sports what is the first thing you hear growing up oh
you should get into football or if you're good at dancing oh you should get into ballet and of
course if you're good at drawing what is the first thing people always say oh you should become an
artist or you'll hear another compliment of with your talent you can make a lot of money another
one that i've heard many times is they're such a good artist it's a shame they never pursued it any
further and i understand the sentiments behind those but hear me out i ran into artists who
if they wanted to they could probably become the next pablo picasso but a lot of artists don't want
that lifestyle they hold their artwork and their whole entire process so near and dear to their
heart they don't care if it gets sold in a gallery for a million dollars they don't care if a million
people buy their artwork or see their artwork they just like doing it because they like doing it and
i don't think that that should be considered a waste of talent some people do artwork just
because they like the process of it just because it's an escape from the world for a little bit
some people's personalities they would rather have like the stability of a nine-to-five job and come
home and do artwork for fun being a self-employed artist is very very tough it doesn't come with a
lot of traditional stability that you would find with a nine to five job being a self-employed
artist or musician or whatever it really can add a lot of anxiety, pressure am i good enough?
art block and a lot of people don't want to mix their creative life with their work life
if somebody chooses to do that route i respect it and even in some ways i envy it what mood are
we feeling what mood are we feeling we'll do red because this next one is so controversial in fact
i asked on my twitter what you guys thought was like the most controversial art opinion
you guys had and i saw this one quite a lot in fact let me get comfy for this one in my opinion
paint pouring can require an immense amount of skill now whenever you first hear the definition
of paint pouring it sounds very simplistic you put paint in a cup and you pour it over canvas
and you'll see lots of youtube channels that are dedicated to the artwork you'll see them sold for
lots of money and if you were to- *iphone rings*
probably a scam i get like scams every day yeah it was a scam but anyway as i was saying if you
were to boil down to just the bones of paint pouring it seems that anyone essentially could
in theory do it but in my opinion i definitely think that it ranges the best way that i can put
it is like cooking yes everybody essentially can go and make a grilled cheese but not everybody can
create like a gordon ramsay style five-star meal it requires lots of time patience understanding
and i feel like it's the exact same thing with paint pouring this is kind of hard for me to
admit because i tried to be very like open about everything around january of this year i did what
i thought was going to be a super easy video which was the weirdest paint pouring techniques
out there i thought you just pour paint in a canvas and dump it and that's it but quickly i
learned when i started to film that video paint pouring is so difficult especially for like the
more advanced techniques you have to understand like the fluidity and motion of the paint you
have to understand color theory and how they're all going to melt together it's very difficult to
flip it just right and super quickly it's insanely difficult to manipulate the paint and get a very
specific symmetrical pattern whenever you're actually pouring the paint with a cup like this
you have to have exact precision to not just like pour it too much or too little you have to be
so incredibly precise then on top of that the painting actually spreads out as it dries
adding glitter silicone fire they're crazy like upper level paint pouring in my opinion is so
difficult and requires so much time patience and understanding doing that video where i
tested out paint pouring changed my whole entire perspective completely all right what do we got
next oh for this next one i definitely know i might be ruffling some feathers with this one
my opinion is that i believe photo realism is art now before i even get into this topic i just want
to say art is 100 completely completely subjective that's the cool thing about artwork is that every
single person can feel completely different about one singular thing when you look at the definition
of art primarily the sentence i want to focus on is producing works to be appreciated primarily
for their beauty or emotional power when it comes to realism i think it is the simplest
and easiest way to show off your skill and beauty with artwork when i was a little kid me and my dad
used to go to a museum in my local town called the anderson museum of modern art ..or contemporary
art and as a little kid i had no concept of modern art and what it meant there was one artwork
specifically it was like a black circle made out of wax and as a little kid i had zero concept
of the meaning behind it the emotional power behind it the work involved in creating it i
had no idea but what i did comprehend was the extremely photorealistic paintings and that
includes realism taken directly from a reference as somebody who didn't understand art in deeper
concepts at the time it absolutely blew me away to see these realistic drawings these paintings they
left me in such a deep ah that i myself started wanting to draw and paint and like understand
how how could a human create that out of this so when it does come down to the definition
of art for me personally it definitely hits the requirements of skill and to be appreciated for
their beauty and of course in my case as a little kid it's emotional power so yeah i definitely feel
that photo realism is one of the easiest artworks to understand be appreciated by the masses for me
personally realism definitely was the gateway drug into artwork but on the flip side i completely
understand the argument of there's no imagination when it comes to photo realism i do think it's
very subjective especially if you're going to compare it to very conceptual artwork i completely
understand both points but in my heart i hold a very special place for photorealism and i do
consider it artwork before we get to the absolute huge one that i think was causing a major war on
my twitter as a pretense i'm gonna go with the lighter one and that's the opinion that microns
are overrated if you don't know what microns are they're a very popular fineliner and i would say
they're pretty much a staple in the art community and i'm not gonna lie they are good pens the art
scene now is much different than it- *strange noise*... is that a serial killer? *silence*
i'm definitely gonna sound like such an old lady but 10 15 years ago it was much
harder to find like specialty art supplies i mean back before the internet had everything
available right off the bat it was quite hard to find and therefore your selection was
much lower back in the day and so back in the day microns definitely were the end
all be all of fine liners but now in modern day it's so easy to find a good fineliner no
problem you can get them on wish on aliexpress even walmart sells some very decent fineliners
now i do have to say that microns are archival meaning that the ink will last a very long time
unlike a lot of paints that have very unstable pigments a lot of inks tend to be very very stable
unless you're very very very focused on archival work i definitely feel that you can get a better
set of fine liner pens much cheaper other places and they don't have to be the name brand microns
and this leads us to probably the most controversial opinion of all on twitter
when i asked about what your guys's opinion was on it probably like every third comment was
regarding this let me take a breath modern art i think is very i'm scared to say it okay here we go
modern art does take a lot of skill now like i said this video is opinions not facts what
falls under the category of modern art are artists like jackson pollock and mark rothko now when it
comes to modern art i definitely understand how easy it is to look at a painting and say like i
could do that no problem but when it comes to that type of modern art there really is a lot of like
symbolism behind it a lot of tactfulness behind it a lot of understanding of the artist's story
what they meant just tons and tons of symbolism behind it the best example that i could say is
look at pablo picasso he started off originally as a realistic artist and one of the many reasons
that he was held to such a high esteem even though he could do and create realistic art he completely
rejected that form and moved on to a more abstract way of painting which was the cubist movement
and even now in modern day when you walk into a contemporary art museum there's usually a thing
called an artist's statement where it explains what you're looking at what it means what the
artist was trying to create and that's the cool thing about artwork is that it has no rules
and the rules that it does have are made to be broken and that's how artwork and
new ideas are made is from other artists past rejecting old ideas trying new things and when
you factor in the symbolism the story behind it the meaning behind it i do think you can get a
lot of enjoyment from contemporary and abstract artwork so yeah i definitely say that next time
you go to like a modern museum check out the artist read about what they were trying to do
and i think it'll be pretty cool to get like a new perspective of what the painting means
so anyway that was a lot of talking i know you guys only saw however long this video is but
i talked i talked so much that my throat at one point just gave up and with that being said that
is some of my unpopular art opinion if you have an unpopular opinion i would love to hear it i would
love to respond to it i will definitely be in the comments down below if you would like to see part
two of this please let me know if you haven't subbed with notifications please be sure to do
that and yeah with that being said i hope you have a good day and i will see you next video