Beliefs and Opinions with a silly example

               Beliefs and opinions are both non-provable things, subjective. They form a malleable part of one’s identity. Media and performance are an excellent way to express those beliefs and opinions. That media can be used to build solidarity with those that think like you do, in addition, it can serve as persuasive material for those who do not believe as the media creator does. Sometimes these beliefs and opinions are heavy, potent, important, and impactful, sometimes however, they are small things, things that do not matter in the long run, but are still valid nonetheless.

               Opinions and beliefs should be founded in fact. This includes both the spiritual, secular, and the menial. An informed spiritual belief or opinion may be based on the positive feelings that one feelings and positive social change that happens around them while practicing their creed. A political, economic, or other belief or opinion should be founded in sound theory, facts, cross checked with other points of view and settled upon, but open to change with the presentation of contradictory material. Often it is easy to take these subjective thoughts and make them into superlatives and certainty for everyone, forgetting that, for others, these opinions are not held. It is similarly easy to make the mistake of taking this opinion or belief and presenting it as a fact.

               Media is important an important tool in the spreading of these opinions and beliefs. Every work that an artist creates is, by its very nature, imbued with even the subtlest of traces of the creator’s beliefs, and opinions, whether they try to hide it or not. It is shame when these beliefs are to the detriment of humanity, however, there are no shortage of creators who use these important and powerful mediums to try and improve the world, spreading healing opinions, and beliefs.

               One belief that I have is a seeming unimportant one, but still of note: ProCreate is the best iPad drawing app for me, and I would recommend it. When I started my journey to finding the best app for me, I tried at least 6 drawing apps, I even created a spreadsheet to rate each aspect of my favorite of the apps. How the brushes responded, how many brushes and other features there were. (I didn’t finish the spreadsheet…it ended up being thousands of items I would have to rate…and I became fond of ProCreate before too long). ProCreate is the best app for me because it is fairly, though not entirely, intuitive. It has time-lapse recording of the artworks. It has tons of brushes, and they can be almost infinitely customized. You can make your own brushes. You can import brushes. It has flaws, however, it is the best for me.