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Batty Buddy

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Sep 21, 2002, 09:27 PM
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An interesting question from a book: It IS about art, so please take a look.

READ THIS BEFORE VOTING. You may not understand it if you don't!

Que Passa!!!!

"Hey! I just DRAW him- it's not like I CONTROL him!"
-...Um... Me- Well, actually a cartoon representation of me named "Emmgee".
Snooze and Mat

This is a art question, much like my pose thread. Where did this question come from?
Gary K. Wolf's wonderful book: Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
(Most of you may be familure with the movie with the slightly changed title, and may have never thought that it was originally a book.)
Anyway, here's the deal with the Roger Rabbit book that inspired this question. In the book, Roger has a friend(Named Carol) who is his photographer. A little bit later in the book, you find that the photographers are basically the same as the artists(Example: In RR world, Charles Shultz would have been considered Snoopy's photographer rather then his artist.). This got me thinking for a while and then I kind of hit an odd feeling:
Maybe I'm not really a 100% artist: Maybe I'm more of a photographer.

Here's my reasoning: I put a lot of personality into my characters. I rarely have to deside what they do when I draw them into situations- THEY kind of deside for themselves! All I do is deside who goes where: One guy might solve a situation by talking his/her way through it, another by fighting, and still another might just hide in the shadows before he/she gets into worse trouble. The way I do my stuff: I just supply the problems.

And I kind of wonder if anyone else ever thought about it this way.

So here's the poll:
Definitions for an artist means that the you feel you create your works
Definition for photographer means that you kind of feel that your works almost create themselves...Or that you are kind of a characterwriter/scholar.
(Please note: It doesn't really matter which one you are- there ARE foreseeable advantages and disadvantages to both.)

Oh, and if any of you are interested in the book, it's really a good read, as is it's sequal: Who P-p-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit. There was also a rumored THIRD RR novel, but I doubt it was ever finished...

(Edit: Did what Captain Spam suggested.)
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Last edited by Batty Buddy; Sep 22, 2002 at 04:39 PM.