Oh my God, somebody just wrote and posted this in my YouTube comments: The guy behind +Oliver Age 24 is impersonating a character who is very obsessed with his own style he claims to be the only true way despite it appearing to us as very simplistic and infantile as a metaphor for wrong or bad. He is distorting basic drawing advice by compressing it down to a short summary and then sticking dogmatically to those abbreviated forms of advice while omitting the contextual reasoning. For instance, when drawing heads up close in camera perspective, if turned slightly away, one eye will be further away from the viewpoint and thus appear smaller on the picture as objects appear smaller the further they are away. In order to have the turned face appear three-dimensionally, you will want to draw it the way a camera would capture it with points closer to the camera being larger and those away from it being smaller. He turns it into a: Make one eye big and one eye squished and that makes the face look 3D. That is the joke in the style of a silly clown character doing things he is not meant to do out of a reasoning we can understand but not support due to contextual discrepancies and we just smile, shake our heads and say: Oh, you! He does the same thing on the finger count. Most humans, obviously, have 10 fingers with 1 thumb, 1 index finger, 1 middle... blah blah on each hand, the hands roughly being mirrored copies of one another. You shorten that down to: Humans have 10 fingers, assuming everyone would automatically know they are equally distributed between both hands. Oliver Age 24 takes this advice, preaches it and omits the part of the equal distribution, leaving the rule of humans having 10 fingers unviolated but to the common observer it is obvious that this is not how it works. This stark contrast between the rule being intact but the outcome being wrong is what constitutes a part of the humour. As we witness how someone who only knows our rules by heart but does not live the same life would misinterpret our statements which are objectively true but incomplete and can be falsified by changing context. This makes us question the worth of our rules and of rules in general and begs the question if it isnt maybe better to observe the context and put it into perspective rather than blindly following dogma. Apart from that, hes just totally silly, absolutely likeable and horribly wrong at the same time. Hes using lots of grammatical mistakes and misspelled / mispronounced words (e.g. French words), states facts (e.g. something being French) that are obviously false to someone with basic knowledge in the specified field (e.g. French) but obscure to someone without any idea of it and pokes a load of fun at the often misunderstood concept of dimensions by deliberately incrementing the number before the D. This serves both to establish his position as someone who has no clue of what hes actually talking and to make light-hearted fun of those who act similarly. For instance, I have actually seen 5D and 7D cinemas in Poland which is completely absurd to anyone who understands what 2D and 3D mean but obviously has a marketing effect on those who dont. So while hes pointing out that his stuff is very realistic and his way is the correct way, you have correctly realized that this is not the case. Now the effect on you would be an understanding that the one and only true and correct way is maybe not actually right and that people shouldnt always be trusted just because they claim to be experts. Also, this furthers an understanding of logical fallacies which are very very often used in debates. As in my comment: I drew 10 fingers. Humans have 10 fingers. Therefore, I drew a human. The character also constantly criticizes other artists such as Neef for their lack of talent and how they are nowhere as good at drawing as himself. However, it is apparent that behind this character, he is promoting their art to his audience. So the underlying message (or one of them) is to broaden your perspective, look at things before judging and not take everything at face value, be it advertising slogans, bible commandments, laws or social rules. The irony is that the viewer needs to have done all that already before getting the message.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:02:55 +0000
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