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Jack of all trades? or master of one?

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~Daws3 Jun 19, 2012  Professional General Artist
Which do you think is more admirable in others? and which would you prefer to be yourself?
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*JericaWinters Jul 8, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
It depends on the industry. Animators should be able to draw in many different styles. This is useful in graphic design as well. However, illustrators tend to specialize in one style that they become well known for.
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*KaynessArt Jul 7, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
commercially, it is a lot more viable to be a master of one. in the art world, competition is high and no matter what anyone says, excellence still sells. If you want to do many things at once, you're spreading yourself too thin. If you look around at a lot of talented, prolific artists on dA and outside, you'll see that they pretty much focus on one style/genre...or even one medium! Some people would say, 'oh yeah so-and-so's art all look the same!' but that's the point! Also, too many variations tend to confuse clients. they want to know what they're getting.

That's not to say you cannot do art in more than one styles/genre or whatever, but if you do, try to keep them separate. Like, maybe you want to be an illustrator but you want to do children's books art and pinup art...so maybe separate those into different portfolios when you send those to your clients. and put them in separate folders in your gallery.
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~Daws3 Jul 7, 2012  Professional General Artist
agreed
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*KaynessArt Jul 8, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
:)
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~Calvero Jul 6, 2012  Student
Master of one. I want to be one, but it is difficult to focus on one topic. The ability to focus on one thing is more admirable to me because of that. It takes more effort.
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~Daws3 Jul 6, 2012  Professional General Artist
well I think that kinda depends on how many trades you're pretty good at. If it's a ton that still takes quite a bit of effort, but I get what you're saying.
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~Calvero Jul 6, 2012  Student
Well, for me, the trades I'm interested in are fashion design, Typography, Calligraphy, Animation, Illustrated Math(not sure what to call this), Music, Poetry, Animals, Caricature, etc.

I try to keep it to things that would help with comics, but even still it's easy to get carried away and take on too much at one time. Pretty much any type of art could be related to comics.
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~Daws3 Jul 6, 2012  Professional General Artist
illustrated math?
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~Calvero Jul 6, 2012  Student
Turning mathematical concepts into art. [link]
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~Daws3 Jul 6, 2012  Professional General Artist
That could be just about anything, I want to see what specifically you do.
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