Nah bruh
same low relative % of humans able to paint
Digital made art accessible to billions more ppl
the literature of art was always niche and riche
it costs a fuckton, still, generally
industry barriers like persnickety shit still exists
Digital art is forgiving
non-pro, non-pretty, non-polymath geniuses -- even poor, ignorant, dumb mutts on drugs can do art at a library or on a smartphone now, lmfao
Oldschool and trad stuff still exists in normal low numbers and low % interaction, w/ mostly shitty audiences that yap shit at someone trying their best
It just looks like it's gone bc 6 BILLION people are online, and any one of them can do digital art, but only a person that went the full suite of trad route AND gets lucky / goes viral is noted for trad / old school work(s). And often not even multiple works or their whole career, but like 15min on Twitter / X, Tumblr, Reddit, IG, or Youtube lol
My ahh sells artstuffs irl / offline, on the streetside, relatively fair priced at about $35 / piece.
The number of offline, irl, trad media analog painters I've even HEARD exist in any city I'd lived in was like 2. Digital art? Random dudes at a gas station doodle and post their own artistic vision / version of a meme, while on break 🤣🤣 in like 5min, for maybe $0.23 (23 cents of electricity to charge the phone back up the amount of battery the app used).
We have equalized arts from billionaire or millionaire patrons' interest only, to all of humankind. There are dollarstores, selling irl painting supplies, anyone can try, in some countries. How many actually go out and try? You can't undo, it's not forgiving if you fuck it up -- it's just ugly.
Digitally you can undo, others can appropriate and revise, even show you in 1min w/ circling or outlining what you fucked up compared to your text description of what you were attempting. It literally brings writing text communication creating art to a baseline of infant/toddler level accessibility.
MY ahh, 83-84 IQ, had to work for over a decade and nearly reach end of teens before I could even pay for tutoring for a music instrument! I didn't actually get an instrument until near adult, technically not even until working in the oil field and traveling across entire continents (I owned one in name but it was in a diff loc so I couldn't use it & don't count it lol). There were no dollarstores near me as a kid, no tutors, no music shops, no libraries with millions of dollars in city assets.
Now? I can go to the public bathroom at most malls and sequester a glimmer of wifi, do an app thing, do a social media thing, etc.
Hypothetically, now, I can 24 hours a day post a thing on the internet, made in minutes, and THE SAME DAY have someone better give good feedback -- from anywhere in the world! Literally whole other cultures and languages, but still valid feedback about arts
I vehemently disagree w/ your take here
respectfully speaking
My experience, even as a handicapped mf, says we have infinite opportunity to get gud as we can, as fast as today -- as fast as same-day.
AND I don't post for sympathy to garner faster responses where I post art. I post as blandly minimal description as possible. So only people who are critical or love art will engage w/ it.
However 😅🤣🤣 as with all internet things and random / unknown humans, the post could be satire or sarcasm and maybe my ahh wouldn't catch it
Either way, the same as digital art's singular ethic -- fuck it, we try 😇😁🙏