Hello, good friends and GFXers alike, to the third installment and long overdue third edition of my rant. Today, we'll be focusing on the meaning of art.
Many of the people in this forum judge art as a signature. More specifically, what in a signature that is described as good art. Such as the false misconception that the more C4D's, the better. You must have shiny effects or dark effects, depending on the "mood" of the sig. You must have a border. You must have text. I'm here to prove that you, sirs and madams, are completely, utterly, insane.
You see, what placement of C4D's happens to be is only a
form of art. That's right. There are many other ways to make art, whether your methods include pastels or Photoshop. Look at this picture. Go ahead, look at it.
That's a painting called the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da Vinci. Do you see scatter smudging? Do you see gaussian blurs? Do you see C4D's? The answer is absolutely not, yet this art is a masterpiece all the same. Why? Well, that's because the true meaning of art isn't actually in the art.
It's in the emotion put it in. The sheer effort of putting down something you think looks pleasent or pleasing to your eye on some type of canvas and sharing it.
tl;dr: C4D, shiny, all complicated art is not the only art. It is only a small, miniscule sub-section. Don't be afraid to explore more simpler methods of making art, and always go with what you think looks good.
/rant.