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[@QAYWSXEDCCXYDSAEWQ]

I wish they had shown more of his work in this video...

[@edwardmclaughlin7935]

Well done and well said mate. I trained as a signwriter and witnessed the almost total destruction of the trade by the blokes in their spare bedroom with their Spandex machines etc, who didn't know the first thing about letter shapes, weights and spacing. Overnight the high streets were infested with fascia and van signs that looked appalling and didn't 'sit happy'.

[@TheBeeryBoater]

Just stumbled across your channel. I’m intrigued. A man of true integrity. You have a new subscriber.

[@petegalloway2466]

My art teacher told me I’d never amount to anything, at grammar school. Now in my 50s and just starting an art class. I’ve found I have a hidden talent for pencil drawing portraits. My art teacher is over the moon with my work. If only I hadn’t listened to my school teacher 35 years ago. My life may have been so different and I might have had a career in art. I feel blessed I’ve rediscovered my love of art but cheated by my disparaging school teacher. If she was still alive I’d go and show her my work! If only I’d ignored her and carried on regardless!

[@geoffdundee]

@petegalloway2466 ....i hate when so called professionals give zero encouragement to students.........as a 15 yr old i was always top at art in school and i looked up to my head teacher as he was also a known local artist.........for my 15th birthday i asked my parents to buy me an oil painting starter set.......i was so happy and was telling my teacher about it and he said "you,ll never be able to paint in oils" - i barely spoke to him after then as i though it was a shitty put down............after lots of practice and 5 years later i was painting,exhibiting and selling my work - in oils...........the teacher had seen my work in local exhibitions and claimed he taught me LOL.......i taught myself if truth be told.

[@petegalloway2466]

@ good for you Geoff. I hope you go from strength to strength. Congratulations on sticking with it. Wish I had. But as they say “it’s never too late!”. Best regards 🙏🏻

[@JohnRadford-iy7db]

Great stuff love pub signs

[@marcuslyons6622]

I totally agree with you. I get so tired of hearing AI referred to as a tool for illustrators and graphic designers. It’s not. It’s a complete replacement.

[@nikolailockertsen]

Fantastic!!!

[@Ztandard32]

Andrew has a point and is an inspiration. I remember seeing a photograph displayed in a Berlin art gallery in 199something. When I got closer, I realised the artist had tricked me and it was a skilled painting without a soul. It looks like the challenge is now reversed and it might be a problem. I am a keen amateur artist and I also work in AI and perhaps the challenge for artists is how to respond to AI and how to think differently. There is plenty of art around without passion and soul and feeling and so perhaps we just need to accept it and rise to the challenge.

[@Musrusticus-]

Excellent fellow…

[@chrish1657]

"... and completely lost it's soul". Pretty good summary of the modern world 👍

[@leahlambertphotography]

So true. AI has taken away the integrity of truly creating something that has your true stamp on it. I came into the art of sign writing in the early 80’s. Computer generated signs were just beginning to saturate the market. I am grateful that to this day, I still have the skill of hand lettering. Resurgence for sure of all things none computer generated. Thank you for this video.

[@DragonNo1]

I'm in total agreement with what Andrew is saying. As an artist I feel I have to swim against the current if I want to keep my sanity and make some money. The present art and advertising world with the irruption of AI has become a total wasteland. Art is more than churning images. I want something made by a human, not by an algorithm that doesn't care if it's beautiful or true.

[@AMeise-vy4fk]

In this Incarnation, the Austrian Painter, took the right Way

[@haldickerson4296]

We are of the same mold friend.

[@nigellee9824]

I don’t believe for a second that your lecturer said that…..

[@consideredwhisper]

It sounds far too harsh and dismissive. But maybe they fancied the same girl. Who knows. I don’t think it would’ve been about the quality of his art. But seeing this from a different viewpoint it sounds like it was the very thing he needed to hear to spur his ambition on. Criticism can be the making of some people, the destruction of others.

[@lynnblack6493]

It's true. First thought on incredible beauty - is it real? And often it's not. Darn.

[@AnthonyCooper-f8t]

Glad you never listened to that idiot lecturer but believed in yourself.