22nd March 2010, 05:58 PM
Been quite a while since I've been on BAJR - lovely new site Mr Hosty :face-approve:
Interesting discussion, especially as the AAI&S (Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors) have excluded photography as part of the specialism until the last year.
I have so often come across the attitude that illustrators aren't really specialists and completely unnecessary because the person asking you to do the drawing could do it themselves if they had the time. Funny really because when I was a digger there was an attitude amongst some site labourers of 'how hard can it be to dig a hole in the ground... I could do that'.
Interesting discussion, especially as the AAI&S (Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors) have excluded photography as part of the specialism until the last year.
I have so often come across the attitude that illustrators aren't really specialists and completely unnecessary because the person asking you to do the drawing could do it themselves if they had the time. Funny really because when I was a digger there was an attitude amongst some site labourers of 'how hard can it be to dig a hole in the ground... I could do that'.