Art to me is a varied subject for me. The main rule of art as far as I'm concerned is it's leaving your perspective of something somewhere as a physical image/product. Most of this is showing expression, but there is a vast range of items that help with everyday ideals. Cups, bowls, tables, buildings - these are a few things that can be altered on a varied scale and still be artistic. Originality is said to be dead, but art can come from anywhere, even if you pick influence from something else.
I have an up-down relationship with art. I enjoy it, but I'm always near a computer. I'm ignorant with a lot of things, but I should be more mature, go look at artists and go to galleries instead of waiting for group visits and sitting on my **** all day.
My favourite type is figurative, especially females. To me, a figure is attractive because you understand it due to having one yourself. But you still want to hear what others say about themselves.
In the 2-D world, my main art fetish is anime/manga style, especially the fantasy style and quite unorthadox ideals behind the picture. It is the style that I have chosen to adapt as well, as I can interpritate things easier in that form.
Some of my favourite artists on Deviant Art are
http://toounit.deviantart.com/ and
http://kidchan.deviantart.com/.
3-D wise, I collect a lot of anime/manga stuff for visual eye-candy (not perversed, but visually entertaining). But to go out of scope, I do like other figurative sculptures. I do like simplistic forms, where the arms merge with the rest of it, but it's not a specific taste. To me, whether it's a one-of-a-kind or manufactured, a good shape and style will always win.
But I adore Salvador Dali's work. Even though I work in ceramics and his is mainly bronze, I can be inspired by his work on an obscure level. You can ask why and how he could do such things to animals, humans and objects, but I love the feeling of being mind-boggled by that quetsioning. He also has a large ego that suprises and astonishes me.
One thing is that people seem to get the wrong idea when I do look at nudes and such. An example is when I did research on maid outfits and Gothic Lolita fashions. I liked the over-frilly look of the uniforms, and the layers and sections it's split up into. When I presented it, I apparently had a pervesed glutton for skimpy slaves and hookers.
That is how naive my look on things are, as I don't look beyond the visual impression of something. A nude is just a shell, but you want to look at the whole image before that shell has a meaning. Why is it in that pose and such.
Sorry, I've turned this into an essay.
I hope that people have a better understanding of me now, but I'm happy to hear other's views.
And I agree Kurogane. It does require skill and an ability to do things instead of just scribbles. I'm not a fantastic drawer myself, but I at least put effort into it (except when generating ideas, that's needed to be done quickly at times).