Isn’t it? A physically disabled person might suck absolute arse at walking, I suck absolute arse at drawing. I will never get good at it, either - I went through 9 years of art class in school and in 9th grade my drawings weren’t much better than 1st. Might as well consider it a mental disability at this point. Okay, technically I DO have a mental disability, it’s called ADHD, and it makes learning some skills so difficult I wonder how anyone can do these things, while others are a breeze to the point where I wonder how other people don’t manage as easily as I do. Yes, I see the irony.
For a while, I’ve wanted to make a few video games. I’ve actually got three in mind. I’d like to make one 3D game, one fast-paced side-scrolling platformer and one tiled top-down game. For each, I have a vision of how to make them fun (hopefully) and differentiate from a lot of existing games. But I can’t do it because I have no art skills and I can’t afford to pay an artist for the sheer amount of work it would take to produce all the assets for a full game. I am also not going to approach someone and say “Heeeeeeey wanna put in a bunch of work for nothing but a share in the proceeds from a game that may never make 20 bucks?” So my best bet, really, is to focus on either of the 2D games, have AI help me out with the art (which may well be quite difficult if I want to keep a consistent style) and then on the 0.000000001% chance that it’s commercially successful, I can commission art for the next game, or on the 0.00000000000000000001% chance that it’s very successful, hire a full time artist or two.
Note that I haven’t done it, but it’s something I’ve considered.
The ability to create art to a saleable level is not considered a human norm though. I can’t draw either - this is’t a disability, nor should it be classified as such, no matter how much you really really wish you could. Doing so really grates me the wrong way, it’s a self-involved co-option of the struggles people who live with impairment face every second in a society that’s not designed to accomodate them
To be clear, I can’t create art to a middle school passing grade level. Like there’s a chance I could’ve failed a year of middle school if I hadn’t started bribing classmates to occasionally help with my drawings for me at some point in 7th or 8th grade. My ability to draw, even by grade 9, just never improved to the level most of my peers had reached by grade 2 or 3 lol
Not for a lack of trying either. 9 years of something like 32 weeks of school per year, 2 art classes of 45 minutes per week on average, adds up to 432 hours of practice that was mostly drawing or painting (if you can call it that, using either watercolors or guache usually), only occasionally stuff like ceramics. Let’s say 400 hours of drawing or painting. And I mean this is before you consider that I actually liked drawing up until some point and did it at home too - including before I ever started school. And also at preschool where I went for a year. Of course the only two things I ever drew were tractors and houses - because those had lots of straight lines. I imagine 4 year old me must’ve been very proud of them.
Starting grade 10 we had art history class instead. I memorized what needed to be memorized and got passing grades every time.
As you can probably tell, this is something I’m really salty about. Between art and music, my average grades in middle school were brought down just enough that I didn’t usually make the equivalent of honor roll that we had here. Yes, I also suck at singing and unfortunately we did get graded on our singing too. However, while my singing skill is probably in like the bottom 10% of skill level, my drawing is somewhere in the bottom 0.1%
It’s also why I hate the proverb “practice makes perfect” and much prefer the locally sourced alternative that translates to “practice makes you someone that practices a lot”. Clearly practice doesn’t make you very good if you were never dealt the cards. Practice what you’re already naturally good at and you’ll be great. Practice what you naturally suck at and maybe you’ll be mediocre. Which is sometimes necessary, if we’re talking about life skills for an example - better mediocre than nothing
Actually you’ve been saying you’ve repeatedly tried to get into something you unfortunately have no aptitude for, resorted to cheating it in high school, and are salty about lacking the skills.
Middle school, not high school and I had to cheat because it was mandatory to be able to do it and I was not. It seems your reading comprehension is on par with my art skills.
But do you think you would improve over several years of practicing knitting a couple of times a week? Would you be able to outperform a kindergartener? If yes, I don’t think it works for this analogy.
Isn’t it? A physically disabled person might suck absolute arse at walking, I suck absolute arse at drawing. I will never get good at it, either - I went through 9 years of art class in school and in 9th grade my drawings weren’t much better than 1st. Might as well consider it a mental disability at this point. Okay, technically I DO have a mental disability, it’s called ADHD, and it makes learning some skills so difficult I wonder how anyone can do these things, while others are a breeze to the point where I wonder how other people don’t manage as easily as I do. Yes, I see the irony.
For a while, I’ve wanted to make a few video games. I’ve actually got three in mind. I’d like to make one 3D game, one fast-paced side-scrolling platformer and one tiled top-down game. For each, I have a vision of how to make them fun (hopefully) and differentiate from a lot of existing games. But I can’t do it because I have no art skills and I can’t afford to pay an artist for the sheer amount of work it would take to produce all the assets for a full game. I am also not going to approach someone and say “Heeeeeeey wanna put in a bunch of work for nothing but a share in the proceeds from a game that may never make 20 bucks?” So my best bet, really, is to focus on either of the 2D games, have AI help me out with the art (which may well be quite difficult if I want to keep a consistent style) and then on the 0.000000001% chance that it’s commercially successful, I can commission art for the next game, or on the 0.00000000000000000001% chance that it’s very successful, hire a full time artist or two.
Note that I haven’t done it, but it’s something I’ve considered.
The ability to create art to a saleable level is not considered a human norm though. I can’t draw either - this is’t a disability, nor should it be classified as such, no matter how much you really really wish you could. Doing so really grates me the wrong way, it’s a self-involved co-option of the struggles people who live with impairment face every second in a society that’s not designed to accomodate them
To be clear, I can’t create art to a middle school passing grade level. Like there’s a chance I could’ve failed a year of middle school if I hadn’t started bribing classmates to occasionally help with my drawings for me at some point in 7th or 8th grade. My ability to draw, even by grade 9, just never improved to the level most of my peers had reached by grade 2 or 3 lol
Not for a lack of trying either. 9 years of something like 32 weeks of school per year, 2 art classes of 45 minutes per week on average, adds up to 432 hours of practice that was mostly drawing or painting (if you can call it that, using either watercolors or guache usually), only occasionally stuff like ceramics. Let’s say 400 hours of drawing or painting. And I mean this is before you consider that I actually liked drawing up until some point and did it at home too - including before I ever started school. And also at preschool where I went for a year. Of course the only two things I ever drew were tractors and houses - because those had lots of straight lines. I imagine 4 year old me must’ve been very proud of them.
Starting grade 10 we had art history class instead. I memorized what needed to be memorized and got passing grades every time.
As you can probably tell, this is something I’m really salty about. Between art and music, my average grades in middle school were brought down just enough that I didn’t usually make the equivalent of honor roll that we had here. Yes, I also suck at singing and unfortunately we did get graded on our singing too. However, while my singing skill is probably in like the bottom 10% of skill level, my drawing is somewhere in the bottom 0.1%
It’s also why I hate the proverb “practice makes perfect” and much prefer the locally sourced alternative that translates to “practice makes you someone that practices a lot”. Clearly practice doesn’t make you very good if you were never dealt the cards. Practice what you’re already naturally good at and you’ll be great. Practice what you naturally suck at and maybe you’ll be mediocre. Which is sometimes necessary, if we’re talking about life skills for an example - better mediocre than nothing
So you’re basically complaining about…not being exceptional?
That is still not a disability
I literally said I’m exceptionally bad. Like to the level that the average kindergartener is better than me.
Actually you’ve been saying you’ve repeatedly tried to get into something you unfortunately have no aptitude for, resorted to cheating it in high school, and are salty about lacking the skills.
It’s still not a disability.
Middle school, not high school and I had to cheat because it was mandatory to be able to do it and I was not. It seems your reading comprehension is on par with my art skills.
No.
An inability to function as per the human “norm” is a disability. I don"t suck at walking, i have a degenerative muscular disease that affect my legs.
What i do suck at is knitting.
But do you think you would improve over several years of practicing knitting a couple of times a week? Would you be able to outperform a kindergartener? If yes, I don’t think it works for this analogy.
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