With the development of the Internet and various electronic devices, no one is surprised at the appearance of electronic drawings by various artists. Graphic tablets and modern programs make it easy to draw, paint, edit and process the result of the work of "modern Picasso" without any 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 whole mess, not to mention the fact that you had to agree on a price for your own portrait, for which you need to pose for a couple of hours, sitting still, in advance.
Paintings written from a living person really were of some value, and, as I 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 - many pencil masters just need to ask them to draw something “for a chocolate bar”. And, if they are not too busy, they will gladly fulfill the request. This is what “requester” means in the modern slang of artists of the World Wide Web.
By the way, in English there is a “request”. The meaning of the word here is concrete - "request". In Facebook, for example, there is a Friend request function, that is, a request to add as friends, but we use this word in a broader sense.
Other words from the vocabulary of authors
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 perceive, and the words in it are simply shorter.
Even those who studied at the art school, will hardly understand 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 by the author, even drawn “from nothing to do”;
- fanart - a drawing based on a work using characters from there;
- sketch - a small sketch or sketch, a sketch in pencil;
- a requester is a “custom-made” drawing, moreover, as a rule, made for no reason, from the heart;
- Collab - a collaboration of two artists;
- trade - exchange of drawings between masters.
The most interesting thing is that modern web picture gurus call the simple drawing on paper the word “traditional”, which means “traditional”, that is, ordinary. Indeed, there is sometimes a very big difference between the drawings on the graphics tablet in the editor and what is drawn by hand. But having mastered all the functions of modern technology, artists develop their own style. For many, completing a requisition is like doing a daily workout to develop skills.
The word "request" in the modern Internet
Not only among artists, this special slang is common, but also among all Internet users, in principle. Visitors to many sites do not ask questions: a requester is that, since even having an initial 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 rehearsed, many people ask performers to sing something else from the repertoire of another singer. This is a kind of “request” - a request, an offer.
And do not confuse this with "challenge", which means an open call. That is, a person declares that someone cannot do some thing, and the latter must prove the opposite. But this, as a rule, is basically an online showdown of the creative community, which you should not go into, and few people are interested in this. Most use the request, the value of which is already known.
Requests
On many official pages of artists you can see 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, who thus communicate with their viewers, also picked up the request.
Requests for beginners
The hardest thing is to get used to the new field of "Internet drawing" for novice artists who have not yet developed any specific drawing style. After all, a request is a very important task, even if the drawing is electronic. So, before you begin to carry out this kind of "orders", you need to show yourself. Many artists often work as illustrators or web page designers, and fulfilling someone’s requests for them is another way to relax and take a break from work. And, of course, it is important that a person first of all likes to draw.
Portraits to order
And to this day, the portrait remains a good gift to a person for an anniversary or another holiday, that is, in comparison with the last century, in this regard, technology has stepped far forward. 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 model of pin-up leaflets from the 60s of the last century, and from a young couple draw a royal family or depict anything, at the request of the client. This is also a kind of fulfillment of requests, only more professionally and already for the money.