>>9 one thing that ive noticed from getting to know some western “digital painters” who often draw anime girls and hang out in the twitter illustrator circles, is that they seem to not be otaku and are sometimes even anti-otaku mindsets.
in particular they seem to have a very romantic perspective on art and look down on the databasey, obsessive, and intertextual approaches to (interpreting) media. the kind of people that believe taxonomy and comparison is a kind of violence that prevents things from being perceived “as they are”, instead of a more post/meta-modernist idea of perception where the interplay between physical phenomena and cultural symbols produces the interpretation of the artwork.
essentially, they venerate intuition and naivety while scorning irony and encyclopedic knowledge (which they tend to misattribute to a means to an end, a neoliberal conquest to conquer and understand all, instead of a product of the joy of discovery and obsession with a medium as well as its (meta-)narratives and histories). in fact, they view knowledge and discourse as corrupting forces that contaminate their expressive individuality. the dont learn any music theory because it will make you write music like everyone else’s type of people.
idk if these people are the majority and I know Libido Kamen has raged extensively against them, but tldr: I get what you mean by these people. they dont love anime, they love drawing images, which is a fundamentally different point of departure.
in particular they seem to have a very romantic perspective on art and look down on the databasey, obsessive, and intertextual approaches to (interpreting) media. the kind of people that believe taxonomy and comparison is a kind of violence that prevents things from being perceived “as they are”, instead of a more post/meta-modernist idea of perception where the interplay between physical phenomena and cultural symbols produces the interpretation of the artwork.
essentially, they venerate intuition and naivety while scorning irony and encyclopedic knowledge (which they tend to misattribute to a means to an end, a neoliberal conquest to conquer and understand all, instead of a product of the joy of discovery and obsession with a medium as well as its (meta-)narratives and histories). in fact, they view knowledge and discourse as corrupting forces that contaminate their expressive individuality. the dont learn any music theory because it will make you write music like everyone else’s type of people.
idk if these people are the majority and I know Libido Kamen has raged extensively against them, but
tldr: I get what you mean by these people. they dont love anime, they love drawing images, which is a fundamentally different point of departure.