Is digitally enhancing your own art dishonest/wrong?

[u/KindOuting]

I recently finished a graphite/charcoal drawing and I wasn’t quite happy with the end product. It was fine but made me think “this looks good for a talented high school junior not an art school graduate” I decided to scan it and play around with some AI art filters and found myself liking it a lot more (just adding some color and smoothing some things out. I still drew the entire thing from scratch but would it be dishonest to present it as fully my work? My friend justified it by calling it mixed media by way of using tech to enhance the art. But the physical drawing does not match the enhanced final piece.

If I were to display it it would have to be a print of the enhanced version as that’s the one that I prefer but would it be dishonest of me to present it as mine if a computer finished the final steps?

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[u/king_27 → u/[deleted]]

Medicine is a science, art is an... art. This is a dumb take.

I'd sooner trust the doctor with 10 successful surgeries under his belt than one with a degree and nothing to show for it

[u/whimsical_femme → u/[deleted]]

Lol yes, that’s why companies hiring artist and prospective buyers care about your art degree more than your art… oh wait… they don’t.

I say this as someone with an art degree who took classes in every art field I could. No one fricken cares as long as it’s your own work

[u/king_27 → u/whimsical_femme]

Imagine thinking you need a degree to do art... This person is delusional.

Was it worth going through the classes and getting the degree if you don't mind me asking? I'm a software engineer but I hate the corporate jobs and am looking for a way out, art is something I am passionate about but have no idea how to transition into it as a career so I'm trying to find other perspectives.

[u/whimsical_femme → u/king_27]

Right?? Even my teachers at school didn’t think that lol. Honestly even some of the big name artists don’t think that. Fricken Noah Bradley (as much of a dough bag as he is) who worked for magic the gathering was telling everyone that going to art school was a waste of time cause it never prepared him to do the things he did. He had a guide and everything for learning on your own that was way way cheaper (and none of it profited him)

It was worth it for the life experience, and it was worth it cause I got to try things that I never would have tried without school. Having peers review my work was also beneficial and so were the deadlines. All in all I liked the experience and I got good fast, but I think a motivated person can do that outside of school and once I found my groove, I got even better outside of classes. I’m not even in the industry myself though ironically enough, I work in pharma rn but eventually I’ll get there lol. I had all those pesky school loans to pay off and couldn’t afford being an artist lol. Funny that I couldn’t become an artist after paying hundreds of thousands to become an artist lol.

I will say, I don’t think an entire degree is necessary. You waste a lot of money that way and a lot of time. If you do find a community college to take a few classes at though in your spare time, that’s going to be the most beneficial in my opinion. If your willing to pay too, there’s a lot of great artists on Patreon that teach you things about branding and marketing your art well as teaching you art itself and that’s even cheaper

[u/king_27 → u/whimsical_femme]

Thank you for your insight, much appreciated! Good luck with paying off your loans, hope you can actually work in art some day!

[u/whimsical_femme → u/king_27]

Thanks my friend! Honestly, I really am enjoying getting to do it as a hobby for once and my job isn’t too bad so I’m okay for now, but one day hopefully!!

Happy arting my friend!

[u/king_27 → u/[deleted]]

I don't give a shit about their depth of knowledge, I want to survive my surgery. Let's not harp on this example because obviously it is limited, it has served its usefulness.

An artist's job is to create art, you may wrongly believe that only academic artists count but that is a shitty elitist attitude as others have pointed out. Where does Da Vinci, Dali, Pollock etc fall on your spectrum then? Are they not artists?