March 17, 2010, 02:52:35 AM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
News: Welcome!
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Pages: [1]   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: Do you think someone could tell that your are an artist just by looking at you?  (Read 1759 times)
Yoda
Administrator
Hero Member
*****

Karma: 15
Posts: 771



View Profile
« on: July 30, 2009, 02:35:20 PM »

Do you think someone could tell that your are an artist just by looking at you?
   yes
   no
   I am not an artist
Logged
Yoda
Administrator
Hero Member
*****

Karma: 15
Posts: 771



View Profile
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2009, 06:14:23 PM »

I don't think I look like an artist .. I am not all that expressive via appearance ..
Logged
FrederikJurk
Full Member
***

Karma: 3
Posts: 101



View Profile WWW
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2009, 09:16:39 AM »

I usually just wear black or blue shirts without any print, black pants and sneakers. I could be ANYTHING. I actually like that because people canĀ“t judge me that easily  Roll Eyes
Logged

Mirel
Full Member
***

Karma: 10
Posts: 147



View Profile WWW
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2009, 11:46:47 AM »

...a good question for a forum of artists. Shocked
However illustrators are not artists. Wink
 Also I remember a tv show where specialists have to discover who in a group is an impostor, trained in a month to look as a professional (chef, artist, cloth designer....). In one episode, a 30 years old electronic technician with no artistic inclinations was trained to make monoprints, he get interesting designer clothes and haircut, trained what and how to say and participated with his artworks to an exhibition together with another three consacrated and veteran artists. Five famous art critics were invited at vernissage to guess who is the impostor; only one guessed right.
Logged

Fraximus
Sr. Member
****

Karma: 20
Posts: 264



View Profile WWW
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2009, 07:47:44 AM »

I make sure that I always go out wearing a beret and a painters smock, then I go twirl my moustache and hold my thumb up to measure things while drawing them.  That way everyone knows I'm an artiste.  I get thousands of dollars of commissions this way. That way everyone knows I'm an artiste. 

Just kidding,  no, nobody would know. 
Logged
alhering
Newbie
*

Karma: 0
Posts: 1


View Profile
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2009, 02:44:53 PM »


I usually go for the "Lumberjack" look, flannel shirt, jeans, knit cap
and broadaxe. I prefer to travel incognito. Having to fight off the adoring
crowds and paparazzi can be so... annoying.
Logged
Mirel
Full Member
***

Karma: 10
Posts: 147



View Profile WWW
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2010, 08:13:25 AM »

I wanted to answer by s joke (also)
However the question is wrong. The real question is:
Do you think that you have to look as an artist?

To wear different clothes than other people? to show originality in clothes?IMO the answer is YES. You have to look different if you are a freelancer and if you want that people to remember you.
The most remembered (for his clothes) author that I know was wearing a jalabiya[Arabian thobe] day and night, summer and winter. And myself  I'm wearing colored ties, that, in the casual wearing Israel, look very "shocking" and different.
But now this is not important; most of my few clients are coming from the sea and the net of internet.
Logged

jenlin
Newbie
*

Karma: 0
Posts: 10



View Profile WWW
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2010, 01:04:38 PM »

No.

This makes me think of high school days, people were always surprised that I could draw, because I didn't look "weird or artsy."

I'm in the design field now, and don't even look like a designer. I'm pretty sure if I wore all black and cool glasses, they could tell.
Logged

- jenlin
---------------------------
www.jenniferbates.com
Mirel
Full Member
***

Karma: 10
Posts: 147



View Profile WWW
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2010, 03:50:47 AM »

Jenlin, you said:I'm in the design field now, and don't even look like a designer. I'm pretty sure if I wore all black and cool glasses, they could tell.
No ,they will think that you are one of "Men in Black" movie, hunting for aliens:

"You'll dress only in attire specially sanctioned by MiB special services. You'll conform to the identity we give you, eat where we tell you, live where we tell you. From now on you'll have no identifying marks of any kind. You'll not stand out in any way. Your entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone you encounter. You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymity is your name. Silence your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System. You're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "them." We're "they." We are the Men in Black. "
Kay: We are the best kept secret in the galaxy. We monitor, licence and police all alien activity on the Earth. We're your first, last, and only line of defense. We live in secret, we exist in shadow.
Jay: And we dress in black.
LOL
Logged

sygnin
Newbie
*

Karma: 0
Posts: 11


View Profile WWW
« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2010, 11:15:35 PM »

Probably not. But I've kinda noticed that you can spot the wannabes quite easily at gallery shows... usually they'll be all dressed up in the way they think creative people ought to be hip and cool. The real working creatives usually look very tired and are grateful to be looking at the art and not having to make changes for once! Tongue
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.11 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!