Talent?

[luco]

I was having an argument with a few people today. They were telling me that anyone can learn to draw and that it doesn't really require talent, just alot of practice.

They said that true talent can be seen in writing...

The argument went on for sometime and finally I just let them ramble and hoped they'd go away...

But it does make you wonder....I feel they both require talent....and I thought everyone felt that way as well.

Seems I was wrong....

My bad.

Comments

[branchandroot]

Excuse me a moment, darling.

*hunts down people in question*

*thwacks them repeatedly over heads with a dead cod*

Right, then.

Anyone can learn to draw to a certain standard, just like anyone can learn to write to a certain standard. Barring disbilities that would interfere, of course. But that standard is... well... blah. I can draw blah--with a great deal of hair-tearing work I can produce something that is not actively painful to the eyes. More than that requires either talent or astounding dedication. Preferably both, but you can get pretty far on one or the other.

Writing is just the same. Anyone can, with some work, produce prose that is not actively painful to read, but a good story requires the same kind of gift and dedication that a good picture does.

You have the gift to draw. I have the gift to write. Let us rejoice in our talent and smack with dead cods anyone who refuses to acknowledge one or the other.

[luco-millian.livejournal.com]

*Rejoices*

Beating them upside of the head does sound so tempting especially since one of them will be the Student Teacher in my English Class...

*shudders*

I'll never be able to draw in peace while in class again...

*mutters and growls*