Slang of contemporary artists. Gift, sketch, request is

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

With the development of the Internet and various electronic devices, no one is surprised by the appearance of electronic drawings made by various artists. Graphics tablets and modern programs make it easy to draw, color, edit and process the result of the work of "modern Picassos" without much difficulty. But, as you know, new opportunities give rise to new needs, so the speech of a certain circle of creative people most often undergoes changes. Such deformations also affected artists.

Modern slang and its analogues

Finding a good artist used to be a big hassle, not to mention the fact that the price of your own portrait, for which you have to pose for a couple of hours, sitting still, had to be negotiated in advance.

Paintings painted from a living person were indeed of some value, and, as we recall from history, the creations of artists were often exhibited in a place of honor in the house as the pride of the family. In the modern world, everything is much simpler - it’s enough just to ask many pencil masters to draw something “for a chocolate bar”. And, if they are not too busy, then withhappy to comply with the request. That's what "request" means in modern slang for world wide web artists.

By the way, English has its own “request”. The meaning of the word here is specific - "request". Facebook, for example, has a Friend request function, that is, a request to be added to friends, but we use this word in a broader sense.

Other words from the authors' lexicon

Such newfangled words came, of course, from the English language. The tendency to dilute the language with other words is explained by the fact that English is easy enough for many Internet users to understand, and the words in it are simply shorter.

Even those who studied at an art school will have difficulty understanding the modern designation of many types of drawings. Therefore, the following dictionary may be useful:

• gift - a drawing for someone as a gift, from the English word gift;
• art is, in principle, any drawing of the author, even drawn “out of nothing to do”;
• fanart - a drawing based on a work, using characters from there;
• sketch - a small sketch or sketch, a sketch in pencil;
• request is a drawing "to order", and, as a rule, made for nothing, from the heart;
• collab - collaboration between two artists;
• trade - exchange of drawings between masters.

The most interesting thing is that modern web image gurus call a simple drawing on paper the word "traditional", which means "traditional", that is, ordinary. And indeed,between drawings on a graphics tablet in the editor and what is drawn by hand, sometimes there is a very big difference. But having mastered all the functions of modern technology, artists develop their own style. For many, completing a request is like doing a daily skill-building workout.

The word "request" in today's Internet

This special slang is common not only among artists, but also among all Internet users, in principle. Visitors to many sites do not ask questions: what is the request, because even with a basic knowledge of English, you can easily understand what is at stake.

Even a newcomer to a forum or a social network will understand that a request is a request to do something specifically for a person, most often disinterestedly. For example, in the comments on those videos where famous songs are covered, many ask the performers to sing something else from the repertoire of another singer. This is a kind of "request" - a request, an offer.

And don't confuse this with "challenge", which means an open challenge. That is, a person declares that someone cannot do a thing, and the latter must prove the opposite. But this, as a rule, is mainly the Internet showdown of the creative community, which should not be delved into, and few people are interested in this. Most use the request, the meaning of which is already known.

Examples of request fulfillment

On many official pages of artists, you cansee how in the comments people "request" the implementation of some insanely complex ideas or paintings. One of the first who began to fulfill such “requests” was one of the users of the entertainment portal under the nickname Chilik.

On his page in the social. network, you can see the album "Draw me …", where he fulfills the requests of users. Following him, other illustrators and web artists have picked up the trend to complete requests, who communicate with their viewers in this way.

Requests for newbies

The most difficult thing to get used to in the new field of "Internet drawing" is for novice artists who have not yet developed a certain style of drawing. After all, a request is a very important task, even if it is an electronic drawing. So, before you start fulfilling this kind of "orders", you need to show yourself. Many artists often work as illustrators or web designers, and doing someone else's requests for them is another way to relax and take a break from work. And, of course, it is important that, first of all, a person likes to draw.

Custom portraits

To this day, a portrait remains a good gift for a person for an anniversary or other holiday, that is, compared to the last century, technology has stepped far ahead in this regard. In many cities, modern design studios offer to purchase a drawing of a person made from his photograph. The trick is that any artist can redraw someone in a certain style.

For example,turn a modern dark-haired lady into a pin-up leaflet model from the 60s of the last century, and draw a royal family from a young couple or depict anything at the request of the client. This is also a kind of request fulfillment, only more professionally and already for money.