What I said earlier I've reflected on a bit more, and I think it comes from my experience working with electronic music. I really think that it being three-dimensional and a little less perfect counts for a lot. Try tracing your picture exactly with a vector program and see if it still looks as good? I'll bet you won't be able to get it exactly, and that it won't look as good. Things need to be a little organic, or a little cartoony; in-between is sort of an uncanny valley of art. Like how perfect timing and perfect everything in music works fine if you're working in a genre that's really intricate and technical, but not so much for something people are going to appreciate other than intellectually.
I think my best music involves some imperfection, some untidiness, and that it's likely the same for your art.
Of course, tastes vary. It's like how your dad liked my oil painting of mountains more vocally, presumably because it was more orderly and so appealed to him more than the abstract, imperfect mountains you did, which I think were much more evocative and interesting and pleasant to look at.
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Date: 2014-05-10 06:29 am (UTC)I think my best music involves some imperfection, some untidiness, and that it's likely the same for your art.
Of course, tastes vary. It's like how your dad liked my oil painting of mountains more vocally, presumably because it was more orderly and so appealed to him more than the abstract, imperfect mountains you did, which I think were much more evocative and interesting and pleasant to look at.