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[–] Robsadaisy 239 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Mandarbmax 85 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is high art and belongs in a museum. I'm not joking.

[–] youCanCallMeDragon 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I unironically agree. 2nd place looks more like a dog, but 1st place feels more like a dog.

[–] Mandarbmax 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Can confirm, she were high while drawing that dog.

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[–] rockSlayer 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exceedingly accurate depiction, first place was warranted

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The fact that 1st place could cite a credible source is what really does it for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this the actual ACTUAL picture or some sort of AI recreation based on the drawing?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AI image generation wasn’t a thing when this happened 10 years ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For all I knew this could have been a very recent post or even if this was 10 years ago someone could've created that image on the left very recently

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The image on the left was posted with the drawing 10ish years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The actual picture was something like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No it was a person that recreated their children's images in Photoshop.

At least that's how I remember it.

[–] moipe 90 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] 3ntranced 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah greyhounds be awkward like that

[–] clubb 1 points 1 year ago
[–] angrystego 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, the second place is more crafty, but where's the fun in that? There would be huge amounts of similar nice pictures in the competition. The first place makes me laugh and uses a way to look at the dog shape that I haven't seen before. I prefer this added value to perfect technique.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

my father that teaches drawing in a comics school always says "drawing iperrealistic is easy, having your artstyle is very difficult and most of the time people don't have one"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Title was doggy mcdogface

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Artstyle vs art quality

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] SickPanda 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] systemglitch 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly, I think it shows how throughly democracy fails to deliver what reality is and how feelings dictate the choices people make.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When it comes to art the goal is to make the person experiencing the art feel something. Whether that be awe, happiness, sadness, anger, etc. The 1st place winner gave me (and apparently most people) a more intense emotional reaction so it's better art.

Now, as for the skill level on display, the 2nd one obviously takes more skill, but skill is only one component of art and depending on your end goal it can be completely unimportant to the piece.

So no, democracy didn't fail, it delivered exactly what it should have in this instance.

[–] Jwmartin0988 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am cynical, or is it more likely that the winner was voted in fOaR Le mEMes? I'm not invalidating your appreciation of the second entry, I'm just sceptical that it was elected in sincerity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I mean... memes can bring the same joy as art in their own way. I would argue that memes are a form of art anyway. A very accessible and universal type of art. If it inspired people to vote for it then they must have felt some kinda way even if it was just silly shenanigans

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This might be true, but there's something about how bad this picture is that I don't think I could do worse. It's uniquely bad in such a profound way that it would require real skill to make something more universally terrible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think it's completely valid to vote according to your feelings. That's how you determine what you find important in those you vote for. Drawings are a form of art and the purpose of art is to invoke specific feelings in the consumer - apparently more people enjoyed the first drawing and voted for it, which is completely valid for a competition for "drawings"; it wasn't a competition for drawing skills, just the pictures themselves.

What I find much more problematic for democracy is misinformation, especially if deliberate by news outlets, politicians or lobbyists. They know how to manipulate feelings to get what they want.

[–] Zoldyck 7 points 1 year ago

Deserved winner

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Tough competition

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Absolute classic

[–] madcaesar 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

At least this once, it objectively has not.

[–] jedi_hamster 2 points 1 year ago
[–] saltesc 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No one knows what it means, but it's provocative! Also art is complicated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pure democracy = rule of the stupid because there's more of them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah ok you're all so quirky because you like the shitty drawing or whatever.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 5 points 1 year ago

And we called it Doggy McDogface.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

i know, people are just supporting the second place one to be 'quirky' cause it's the underdog