I more or less yoinked the style of a Cali driver's license but added things like the medium of the artist, and I made a checklist of "Artistic and Behavior Codes" on the back. But an answer was close at hand - dang it, I'm an artist, a creator! When the world doesn't fit, I change the world! And so I created my very own Artistic License. After all, I didn't have an art degree, let alone a physical ''artistic license'', whatever that would be. It's called Artistic License.īut somehow it always felt like a hollow statement. I'm taking license to make this weirdness. If you're like me, you're constantly getting asked things like, "Why on earth did you paint that toaster purple and install it on the ceiling?" or "Why do you drive a hearse that looks like a zebra?" Of course, the answer is all too simple: I'm an artist. Please email me: ECC first, last, and the symbol between. If you placed an order but never got it, I'm really sorry. Add a few busy school semesters and all control is lost missed orders result. Sadly spambots have taken over the order form, burying all legitimate orders among daily spam orders in the dozens. Usually, these are Tropes Hidden from Audience.2014.12.28: Sorry, we're closed. See also Hollywood Style (which fits various forms of artistic license), Garnishing the Story (in that adding to the story is the primary reason for inclusion), The Power of Index (in which an element is much stronger than it would realistically be), and Rule of Index (where the license is from how cool/funny/scary/etc. Writers, be warned: Using too many of these or taking one to illogical extremes can tug at the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief. If an entry seems especially snarky about it, You Could Always Edit It Yourself, making it a little less snarky. Pointing out artistic license is not bad-mouthing a work. Someone listing an event of artistic license does not mean the work or use of this trope was bad. When reading about artistic license on a page, keep in mind that Tropes Are Tools. It will allow violations of External Consistency, and sometimes Genre Consistency, but usually not Internal Consistency. It also doesn't excuse Falsely Advertised Accuracy. This cannot be used to excuse Character Derailment or Contrived Stupidity Tropes. People still expect characters to be consistent. The license also doesn't allow every kind of inaccuracy. Another major downside is that this trope is often used negatively in an Author Tract, usually to construct a Straw Character or deliver a straw argument in favor of, or against, something. There isn't a complete consensus, of course, about which stories are on the right or wrong side of Sturgeon's Law. Not on purpose for the sake of the story but simply getting their facts objectively wrong, which is a flaw in the story. This is where the second type comes in the writers making the mistakes A bad story will often look worse for its inaccuracies. For the license to work, the story has to be good. These are changes to ensure Emotional Torque. If things have to be sped up to stay interesting, they will be. Truth isn't." If some things have to be fudged for the sake of a good story, then they will be fudged. note It's actually part of a longer quote by Mark Twain the full quote is, "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Besides, whoever first said "truth is stranger than fiction" didn't know what they were talking about. It's about putting the story first - after all, the most important thing in fiction is telling a good story. In some cases, the research couldn't be done because information was lacking, so the artist made an educated guess. Sometimes, it's because it's the way it's always been done in show business, and, even if they themselves know the truth, the audience still wouldn't believe it otherwise. Often they know that what they are writing is off, and wrote it anyway. It's easy to assume that the writer didn't bother with research. The history is wrong, or the science is off, or something else. One, the writer is aware that some parts of the show are inaccurate. In a nutshell, there are two forms of this trope. McNinja Ch 14, p 17 Alt TextĬreators are allowed to be inaccurate if the inaccuracy serves the story better than accuracy would.
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