ronmatt said:
Anyone who surpasses the average and ordinary in any endeavor is employing talant. That's what talant implies. A natural or learned ability.
Talent has nothing to do with learning, talent is a natural skill. That often a learning process is needed to discover that talent in golf, Photoshop, dancing, writing, physics, etc doesn't change the fact that it's still a natural skill. The only problem is; when do we consider something a learned skill or a talent? Sometimes it's very obvious, but sometimes it's not. I don't consider their work talent, but I also know that I can be totally wrong.
Also people shouldn?t confuse ?obsession? with ?talent?. Few people can be really obsessed with super realism to create realistic balls, cell phones and cars and once they show their stuff you often hear ?You got talent!?. Do they? Just because someone uses Photoshop mainly for photo retouching and has little interest to make realistic objects doesn?t make this person less talented.
On the other hand it?s also easy to impress anyone who has never touched Photoshop and who has no interest in art and design. Quite often you will hear these people saying ?Wow, you really have talent!?. The
big mistake you can make as an artist is to dwell on these comments.
Is working 330 days, every day 7 hours to create an image like the one Bert Monroy made talent? One could say ?try it yourself!?. Even that is not a strong argument, since lots of people who do have the skills simply don?t have the interest to work on the same image for 2,000 hours and the whole thing would be for them like running up the hill, like one big torture, whereas others like Bert Monroy see it as a ?great journey? and can be super focused to achieve maximum results.
Mind you,? I don't have all the answers, just throwing in my 2 Canadian pennies.?