I love digital art. Please do not get me wrong in what I say in my journal entry. I absolutely love digital art.

The artwork that I hate is when people take a few minutes to adjust a photo with a few filters and claim it is a digital painting. I finally got fed up with it and called someone on it today. Google has this cool feature where you can submit an image and do a reverse lookup. I was able to find the original model that the "digital painting" was created from and notify her about the possible copyright infringement.

I spend 20 to 30 hours on my digital paintings of people (now admittedly I am working to speed that up through use of texture brushes and other advantages that digital has over traditional), but I hate it when people try to claim original work or claim a digital painting when they run a few filters on something and claim they painted it. They should be required to state it is a photo-manipulation.

I love photo-manipulation by the way. Those that are really good at it amaze me.

And people from the 19th century. Why don't they get with the freaking program. It's called an automobile folks, it's much faster than a horse. And that's what really grinds my gears. Back to you Diane...*

- D

* Reference from Family Guy