Old to knowing about INTJ type and new to forum

[jggdesigner]

Well folks, I am an artist and I am not sure there are many INTJ artists, but I would like to know the truth. *Are there any artists already in this group?

From North Carolina,
Another of the 1% of the population. I grew up near Woodrow Wilson's birthplace and listen to Katie Couric on the evening news

[Jezebel]

Welcome to our quickly growing forum!

I have a job as a production artist. I make cheesy marketing materials, and do some freelance retouching on the side. I also draw and dabble in other forms of art as a hobby. I know too many brilliant artists to think I'm any good at it though. We also have another graphic designer here (I'll let him step forward himself if he chooses to do so).

[Jezebel]

I decided I was interested enough in other INTJ artists to go ahead and start a thread about it: http://intjforum.com/YaBB.pl?num=1190010796

[radioactivez0r]

You're too humble. I always thought your drawings were excellent.

[Firelie]

I'm a graphic design student, does that count as an artist?

[Jezebel]

I'm a graphic design student, does that count as an artist? *

yes, I consider graphic design art.

[The Rose]

Well folks, I am an artist and I am not sure there are many INTJ artists, but I would like to know the truth. Are there any artists already in this group?

From North Carolina,
Another of the 1% of the population. I grew up near Woodrow Wilson's birthplace and listen to Katie Couric on the evening news
I'm a music artist.

[ShaiGar]

I'm a writing artist.

[Ijz]

I'm a software artist, does that count?

Welcome to the forum jggdesigner.

[Lensman]

Ijz I would say software art would count if you do it in a less than measured or in a very out of the box way.

[Ijz]

Ijz I would say software art would count if you do it in a less than measured or in a very out of the box way.

Hmmm, so wouldn't you consider Rembrandt an artist? Apart from the size of his paintings I would not consider his work very much "out of the box" but rather extremely skillful?!

[Lensman]

I said nothing about skill, I said less than measured meaning not being deliberately exacting unless that was the goal. Art does not know the bounds of a Science. But since you phrased it the way you did no Rembrandt wasn't much of an artist he was a hack entering the movement of his contemporaries late in the game. Sure the idea then was to replicate life, which he did extraordinarily, but I'm not convinced he expressed himself properly through his work.

[Night]

I said nothing about skill, I said less than measured meaning not being deliberately exacting unless that was the goal. Art does not know the bounds of a Science. But since you phrased it the way you did no Rembrandt wasn't much of an artist he was a hack entering the movement of his contemporaries late in the game. Sure the idea then was to replicate life, which he did extraordinarily, but I'm not convinced he expressed himself properly through his work.

A fact Rembrandt would certainly belabor, were he alive to express grief.

[Ijz]

Well I don't see the point in writing software without any function, so from that perspective I guess I'm not an artist. I do view writing code in a similar perspective as writing poetry. Some code or architecture can be very beautiful. These are often elegant solutions that embody a certain simplicity, although its hard to put into words...

[Lensman]

No I get what you are saying Ijz, zen and the art of software design. I bet there has been code that has brought you to tears in how few lines or incredibly efficient it was written. I don't know personally that experience, because I've never committed to learning programming. In painting the parallel would be minimalism, a red dot 3 inches from the edge of the canvas that says so much.

[Ijz]

Yes, you're right, minimalism would be the correct term for that. :)
I do think that are some very practical reasons for it. Less code means less bugs and less maintenance and architecture is the ultimate tool for it.

On a side-note, how do you view your older work? Do you still like it as much as when you created it? Personally I find some of my older work good and keep re-using it. Other parts I now find so awful that I can't believe I ever wrote them.

[Lensman]

My ventures are not as straight forward as programming but in writing I recycle certain turns of phrase, drawing I do have certain poses that I like, painting not so much. I can use anything I've made before to inspire something else. And if I can ever finish it, my rpg Campaign World will have elements of everything Fantasy I've ever made.

[LSB]

Considering what goes for art these days I guess I could be considered one.. ;)

Joking aside, welcome, fellow newcomer.

[mind_wander]

Welcome here, not an art designer; don't mind taking the time to stare at it.