Is Craft and Skill Gone for Good? I stumbled on this old post over on the Illustrator forums: ornate flourishes . In it, the original poster asks for a recommendation for "an app or plug-in out there that allows you to do really ornate flourishes, or lets you control the radius of the flourish and its thickness." The responses he receives include the following.What is up with all these questions about plug-ins or tool to do work and replicate skill?The tool is the pen tool. The plug-in is skill, patience, and experience. You might acquire that plug-in by searching for tutorials.Skills, you don' need no stinkin' skills these days. You want flourishes? It's all just clip art off of the Internet. You don't need design and typography skills, just type it into a computer and it should look perfect....It’s practice, practice, practice. This is all basic stuff which any art school should have explained.AndThe craft age is gone for good.What do you think? Do we rely too heavily on our software to create art and artistic elemen