"Wow, just at the beginning, Miss Elena gave us an unexpected choice."
Thomas looked at the piece of work that Anna classified as trash.
He turned the frame at an angle, placed it in front of the camera, and showed its close-up to the audience in front of the screen.
"Perhaps, in my intuitive opinion it is not bad, at least not that bad."
"I think I'd give it a 4 or a 5, especially for the price. I can tell you, Ms. Elena is right. This is what I bought on Fiverr. One of three illustrations.”
Thomas took out a marker pen from the side and wrote [5] on the cardboard.
"Professor Sakai, is this painting that bad...at least, it looks okay, right?"
The woman in a suit sitting at the corner of the coffee table interjected.
She is a middle-aged female translator assigned to the Sakai family by the Yangon Tourism Department.
No one in Professor Sakai's family can speak Burmese, and if they want to go shopping, there are not many people here who can speak English.
Everyone is curious.
She had been sitting in the corner of the coffee table silently drinking her coffee like a transparent person, but her eyes had been watching the YouTube video on the screen of her mobile phone.
She saw the beautiful lady in a wheelchair judging a work that looked okay as rubbish, while the Sakai family on the coffee table took it for granted.
The translator couldn't bear his curiosity.
She finally interjected.
The painting doesn't look amazing, but it's definitely not terrible either.
It uses bright colors and accurate lines to restore the image of Batman on paper.
The background is the colorful Gotham City.
Smoke, thick fog, crowded streets, all kinds of elements are rich. From her point of view, this painting is definitely considered thoughtful.
At least it's much better than the homeless man's ten seconds of scribbling.
She didn't understand why this one was eliminated first by Anna.
At this time, there were also a lot of question marks in the video comment area.
"SMH? SMH? SMH?"
(I don’t understand the abbreviation of Shaking my head’s comment. I was dumbfounded.)
"Why is this picture the worst? I completely disagree. Isn't this ten thousand times better than the picture of the homeless man?"
This is a skeptical comment.
"I don't care, whatever the pretty lady said is right."
This is a comment from Licking Dog.
"There's something shady!"
"FUCK! Now even Mr. Hyperion is going to write a script because of the number of views? It's so disappointing."
This is a comment attacking [Mr. Hyperion Channel].
"Bullshit...Obviously normal people know who can draw better. If this chick dares to give me a set of vague words now, then she is a bitch. Doesn't she know that her evaluation may be ruined? A painter?"
There are also many people who take this selection very seriously and cannot accept this choice.
They thought Anna's choice was very frivolous. At least the subjective impression of this painting was good. Why did the other party call this painting trash so frivolously?
Just because she is a so-called "art critic?"
Or is it because the aristocratic lady has a stereotyped prejudice against cheap painters on the Internet?
Many people's words are more aggressive, and some people are even constantly blocked by the comment areas of video websites.
"くそやろう（They are all stupid [beep—])."
Sakai Tsunamasa glanced at the comments and subconsciously complained.
Then he was lightly kicked by Katsuko Sakai.
"Tsunasho?"
Uncle Sakai also turned his head and looked sideways at his son.
"I was wrong, Dad."
When Sakai Tsunamasa came to his senses, he realized that he had said very dirty words in front of his father, mother, and sister.
He immediately raised his hand obediently and made a zipper motion on his mouth before his father could sigh.
"It's too bad... It's really too bad. If this was a piece of art that I was asked to evaluate, I could only give it 0 points. Looking at it more would be a waste of time."
"Are all online part-time illustrators like this?"
Uncle Sakai then turned his head, faced the translator on the side, and softly explained the reason.
At this time in the video,
The scoring for this painting continued. After Mr. Hyperion gave it a 5, the black guy gave it a 4.
To everyone's surprise again, the insurance officer actually gave a score of 0.
"Although I am a security guard, I come into contact with art every day. I can still tell what this painting is like."
The bearded security officer shrugged and replied to the searching eyes of Thomas and the black boy.
"I think my audience is waiting for your explanation, what is wrong with this painting?" Thomas finally threw the question back to Anna in the video.
"Because this painting, no, this picture. Sorry, I can't even call it a painting, it's full of assembly line electronic industry atmosphere."
Anna looked at the picture frame with disdain, and her remarks were a bit harsh.
These damn cheap painters were simply tainting the art industry in her heart.
"Electronic industrial atmosphere? You mean computer painting? AI, PS..."
"Don't get me wrong, illustrations are not oil paintings. I have no prejudice against computer painting."
The girl in the wheelchair stretched out a finger and shook it slightly, interrupting Thomas.
"Although this painting was obviously printed electronically, the assembly-line electronic industrial atmosphere I am talking about is not a problem with the way it was painted."
With the rise of the modern computer industry, computers can process flat superimposed graphics better than painters, and can finely change the grayscale of colors on a pixel basis.
From Photoshop, the art color correction software first used in Cameron's movies in the 1990s, to LLLustrator in the early 2000s, to tablet drawing tools such as Procreate and Sketchbook that are now popular.
Today, the proportion of people who still insist on hand-painting is less than half.
Especially in the illustration industry and comics field,
Only a few high-end illustrators who pursue the perfect texture of paper and pen still use traditional methods to create.
But that’s not the problem with this illustration.
"I believe that electronic software should be a Swiss Army Knife in the hands of painters, rather than the other way around, where painters become puppets in the hands of machines, in which case it would be better to be a programmer."
Anna said coldly.
"Even for ordinary people, if you have a certain level of artistic literacy like Mr. Security, or are willing to spend a little time and calm down to observe, you can see that Batman's hand holding the dollar in the picture is twisted and weird, not only It’s unnatural and the whole atmosphere of the painting is weird.”
The video footage follows Anna's prompt and gives a close-up.
In front of the zoomed-in camera, it is easy to see that Batman's hand holding the banknote is unnaturally twisted. It is impossible for a normal person to have such hands.
And its texture is completely different from the rest of the picture.
The rest of the picture feels more like a piece of colored pencil, while the part on the wrist has a texture closer to gouache, similar to two different pictures.
Or,
It's more like the hand in the original picture was chopped off and replaced with a plastic prosthesis.
…
"This is a Photoshopped work."
Although everyone present except the translator were professional art practitioners, it was clear what the painting was like.
However, Uncle Sakai politely pointed out the obvious splicing marks in the picture to the curious translator.
"If I thought correctly, the artist should have randomly grabbed an illustration of Batman from the database, then edited a few pictures and it was done."
Uncle Sakai also sounded a little unhappy: "To create this painting, you don't need any art knowledge, you just need to watch a few PS tutorials on YouTube."
“Although illustrators are sometimes referred to in art circles as taxi drivers who are hired by their employers to drive, this is too much of a rental even for a cheap illustrator.”
"If all painters are like this, this industry will be replaced by AI sooner or later."
Tsunamasa Sakai concluded: “This is not a good thing for the entire art world.”
Compared with machines, painters must have their own ideas and their own unique desire for expression.
The significance of painting lies not in its external form, but in its ability to reflect the soul of the creator.
Especially from the perspective of the art market, such PS-altered works are completely worthless and have no aesthetic value.
It was understandable to be disliked by the young female art critic.
As the video continues to play, a line of small text prompts pops up in the upper right corner of the screen.
[At the reminder of Miss Elena, after reviewing the information in the studio and having a confrontation with the painter. It has been confirmed that the original painting of this painting comes from a comic strip on page 243 of "Batman: The Killing Joke" drawn by the late illustrator Bill Finger in 1948.
After changing the original bat hook into a hand holding a dollar, the artist sold the drawing to the channel as an illustrator. 】
[Due to copyright risks, mugs printed with this illustration will not be put on the shelves of Mr. Hyperion’s store, and the channel reserves the right to pursue property losses caused by this. 】
"This guy is miserable."
The cheap illustrator is really unreliable. He dares to use someone else's original painting that is still protected by copyright, make a few changes and sell it as his own painting.
This is a taboo for commercial assignments.
Sakai Tsunamasa sighed.
He really couldn't understand what these cheap illustrators on the Internet were thinking. It didn't matter that their skills were not good, and they didn't even have good character.
The discussion area on the right also began to turn around immediately.
"Idiot, I told you a long time ago. This beautiful young lady must be right."
"I didn't notice the arms of the drawing at all at first... I didn't expect it to be an altered work."
"Let me tell you, cheap painters cannot be trusted at all. A classmate of mine at school is still working part-time as an illustrator online. At his level, I think orangutans can draw better than him..."
