I don’t think artist vs non artist is what the difference is actually. To me I see it more as amature vs professional.
When you see complete art, things like value range, contrast, composition, anatomy, material distinction, the way rim light works (just outlining the back of a character vs treating it like an actual light source) perspective all jump out right away to the trained eye. Yes it’s a finished piece. But you can easily see someone who doesnt understand the fundamentals completely. It’s not a bad thing, but the difference between someone who can draw hands or can’t, knows proportion or not etc. Is very visible.
And the same goes to music, a trained ear, someone who has practiced to hear the minute differences and seek to find perfection can easily hear why something is bad or not. It’s the people without that training or eye that don’t know they are doing something wrong or even worse, don’t care.
The nigga said you can be an artist and not even know how to draw/actually make art. Why are you entertaining him? He is basically saying as long as you can commercialize your product and be successful in doing such you can consider yourself an artist, this is where we are at in 2016.
So basically it boils down to those who wish to master a craft and see where they can take it vs those who are just trying to make a buck with it. In the case of the later, once they start making money with the level they are at. They have no reason to go further because they reached their goal of making money with it. Which is sad in the case of those that actually have talent and potential. But just settle for where their talent is at because it’s good enough to eat off of.
nickrocks genuinely believes that being a sellout and cooning yourself for sheckles is art.
edit: don’t believe me? selling out and being a commission artist for disgusting fetish people was the first thing that came to his mind as soon as he learned to draw his first hairy booty.
