Art Talent or practice??

[KAOS]

hi every one,
I've been wondering what you think being good at art comes from?
I know what i think a good combination of both because you need Talent to actually get interested in doing art(i.e. anime and manga). But practicing brings your skills to the peak limit.
(I think Talent counts most though):)

[Syn]

I dunno...I voted for both because you need to have some form of talent to get anywhere, I mean I could practice all I wanted at drawing but i'd still be pretty crappy.

Where as someone with talent would naturally have a good eye for angles, shading, that kinda stuff.

Obviously, practice makes perfect and all, but yeah....I dunno..lol....you need both.

[Dan Rugh]

It's all about practice. No one just picks up a pencil/paintbrush/etc. and just creates a masterpiece. I'm sure all the famous artists' work looked just as bad as any other person's when they first started. I don't really think there is such a thing as natural-born talent.

[KAOS]

yea i agree practice will do loads for you...but you do have to have a certain nack for it in my opinion but i still stick to both

[Syk3]

[color=30415D]I deffinitly agree that being good at art (be that drawing, painting, scultping, computer, etc.) takes both talent and practice, but I think I would concentrate more so on practice than anything else. If you are born with an artistic talent, you may be able to produce decent pieces, but if you don't continue to practice by challenging yourself with more difficult forms of art, you won't be able to improve upon this talent. And if you can't improve, you are going to be stuck at a particular skill level that will soon become outdated, and you won't recieve any recognition because everyone has seen something similar in the past. Besides, even if you do have a natural talent, that's not going to make any of your pieces an instant Piccaso; practice makes perfect, as they say.

It's just like with any other activity; take soccer[/football] for example. You may be very athletic and a decent soccer player at first, but if you don't train and continue to practice, you won't be able to just come onto the field and expect to make perfect passes, and run around without getting tired easily.[/color]

[Semjaza]

I really do think that some people just have an eye for these things. Practice will make anyone improve, but some people are just inheirently better at this stuff. No matter how much someone practices, I think many of them just hit this wall because they don't really have the pure talent to get past it. I've seen that happen countless times.

That in [i]no way[/i] means that some person who is amazing now was amazing when he first started. I don't think that's even the idea of inheirant talent. These people are just able to go farther with it. Some people will never figure out what colors go with what colors or what typeface is best for a certain situation or how to draw smoothly.

[Maully]

[color=green]I definitely think it is both, but a natural talent helps. I have little skill in the art department, though I have taken a couple of classes. My hands just don't transfer images from my head to paper well, and no amount of practice or training seems to help me, much to my dismay.[/color]

[Kanariya]

[size=1][color=chocolate]I think making great art is all about the practice, and really not the talent.

I never used to be a good drawer myself, and usually drew the good old stick people. But since I have come to middle school, there is this girl in my Orchestra class and she can draw very well, maybe draw Yuna from Final Fantasy in 5 minutes flat. She really did inspire me to start drawing and practice by her practicing, and so I practice and practice to draw much better now.
It eventually worked, and I am currently drawing better. But now, I really don't want to draw anymore really, and start playing the piano very well. I set goals for myself one after another.

So, I think good art is from to keep practicing.[/size][/color]

[SaiyanPrincessX]

[SIZE=1]Both.

It helps when you have talent but as Kai said, practice makes perfect. You could have the talent and never use it, therefore you would never excel in it.[/SIZE]

[oshi]

It's definitely both! You can't get anywhere without the littlest bit of talent--works that are forced are just not as good as works that come with feeling and emotion, with a flow from the mind to the hand. You can practice all you want, but if you have no talent, you're probably going to stop anyway. It's discouraging. I think that you have to practice even if you have talent, because otherwise you never progress. An artist's goal should be to constently get better, constantly reinvent their way of looking at things, and become more whole as a person. People who are not artistically motivated find other ways to fulfill themselves: like by looking at other people's artwork. And either way, if you don't practice, you shouldn't be considered an artist. True artists have a real need to make art. It's not just something to pass the time. It's a weird urge. You get antsy if you can't at least doodle on your homework, or something.
It's both, but how much of each is needed for a good result varies from person to person.
oshi

[Katana]

Actually, the question at hand is rather tricky. You don't just draw one picture and quit for the rest of your life. If you truly love it, then you just continue drawing in class. ^_~
Actually, practice doesn't mix in. Practice is trying to perfect your style. But when you have talent and love to draw, you develp your skills. And practice and development don't mean the same things.
So, in my case, talent is the way to go. If you're bad at drawing, then that usually bothers you and makes you quit.

[Turkey]

I think the answer is neither talent or practice, but desire. Talent gives you a natural edge, practice lets you take your skills to the limit (if any), but desire makes you WANT to use the other two.

[Baron Samedi]

For any form of art, be it computer design or physical manipulation you need both. Some people naturally have the right mind to see what they want, and have the ability to make it flow out perfectly onto paper, but they also need to practice technique.

Some other people really desire to do well, so they will practice. Eventually, they'll learn what looks good, even though they may not have actual talent.

Basically, what I am trying to say is that both are necessary. Masterpieces can be created without one, but I feel that both are needed for someone to become great at art.

[Godelsensei]

That depends on what you mean by talent. If you mean the ability to see things in a different light, something that some people simply can't do, or figure out a way to position things just right, then partially, yeah.

But the most important thing in drawing is the firey wanting to do nothing else. When you reach the point where all you want to do is draw, and drawing is all that matters...well, then you're bound to get somewhere.


-Godel