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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
She sounds like a real b itch.
Start drawing again don't let that woman stop you from anything.
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Yes!
Unfortunately, art teachers with pre-defined ideas of what sort of art should be created are too common.
A few years back, I was at a function, and another attendee was Donato Giancola, a Hugo Award winning illustrator of Science Fiction and fantasy, who has done things like covers fror a set of HarperCollins Tolkien reissues. His work is gorgeous, with Renaissance influences. He has done workshops at SF cons on things like painting faces, and the attendees were all other pro artists, who looked like they couldn't wait to get back home, set up a canvas, and start practicing the techniques Dan was demonstrating.
He's also an adjunct professor at NYC's School of Visual Arts, and he introduced me to a chap he described as "his best student". The student was from Scandinavia, but had to study in the US. He wanted to do realistic painting, and professors in art schools back home only wanted to teach and see abstract art. I just shook my head.
I did decent freehand sketching when I was younger. Later on, I did graphic design, and could hand letter a comp to show what a design would look like that some people thought had been typeset. No longer, alas. I've simply lost my hand. Being able to use DTP on a computer releived me of the need to do comps that detailed. Now I do rough sketches to block out the elements, but the rest is done electronically.
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Dennis