Separating Imitation From Plagiarism in Your Craft - Grimvisions http://www.grimvisions.com/technique/separating-imitation-from-plagiarism-in-your-craft Where Grim Visions Become Dark Art Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:12:31 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Separating Imitation From Plagiarism in Your Craft - Grimvisions http://www.grimvisions.com/technique/separating-imitation-from-plagiarism-in-your-craft/comment-page-1/#comment-785 Grim Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:09:01 +0000 http://www.grimvisions.com/?p=1300#comment-785 Great post. I think this makes a great distinction. I know for myself early on imitation allowed me to figure out how to do a lot of things, especially in regards to painting. As time passed I was able to incorporate my own techniques and change the way I paint my pieces to make them my own using different technique and processes I had learned through lots of experimentation. Without imitation artistic progress would be very slow. For those of us without any formal art training the internet community is our instructor and our studio or workshop is our classroom so to speak. We don't have any textbooks on what we do and generally rely on what we read out there and have to imitate what we see initially, but at some point it is important to start pushing ourselves to try new things. This doesn't mean completely changing the way we have been working but slowly over time altering the way we work to let our own style show through. Great post. I think this makes a great distinction. I know for myself early on imitation allowed me to figure out how to do a lot of things, especially in regards to painting. As time passed I was able to incorporate my own techniques and change the way I paint my pieces to make them my own using different technique and processes I had learned through lots of experimentation. Without imitation artistic progress would be very slow. For those of us without any formal art training the internet community is our instructor and our studio or workshop is our classroom so to speak. We don’t have any textbooks on what we do and generally rely on what we read out there and have to imitate what we see initially, but at some point it is important to start pushing ourselves to try new things. This doesn’t mean completely changing the way we have been working but slowly over time altering the way we work to let our own style show through.

]]> Separating Imitation From Plagiarism in Your Craft - Grimvisions http://www.grimvisions.com/technique/separating-imitation-from-plagiarism-in-your-craft/comment-page-1/#comment-784 CB Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:26:18 +0000 http://www.grimvisions.com/?p=1300#comment-784 KingUnicorn, Great post, you really cleared things up for me. I can't wait to read the next part. CB KingUnicorn,

Great post, you really cleared things up for me. I can’t wait to read the next part.

CB

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