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And remember, those ‘famous’ people who didn’t go to art school were dead at the time. 😉
I’ve always been unsure myself about going to art schools, I draw pretty often myself. But the school and stuff I’ve been in has always been more about animation and comics than “art”. I’ve would like to go in some of that at some point, to learn drawn in diffrent ways, especially try do paintings, perhaps nothing I would spend a year in school to do.
That said, it’s always nice to have a teacher say what you can do better, there is just some stuff that you doin’t learn “yourself”.
I’ve taken a cartooning class , other than that , I’m self taught . Having said that , I do think it’s good sometimes to have a experienced objective viewpoint to give you extra perspective on what you’re doing .
Aaron is trying to eliminate his own competition xD
Only one stomach each? But what about the ones that make conceptual sculpture out of internal organs?
i love it
Haha, that’s great!
Most great artist of the past did not go to art school because there were no art schools until the late 1800s. Today, we think of Art as being a profession but in the past material artist e.g. painters and sculptors, worked with their hands and were therefore considered mere lowly tradesmen who were trained in apprentice system just like blacksmiths and other skilled trades. Neither were artist expected to be creative. The goal of art prior to the 1700s at the earliest was to be “original” meaning, to go back to the origins. (Original is one of those words whose meaning has inverted over time.) Artists were supposed to recapture the glories of the past, not create something novel and meaningful. Until the 1800s, the public gave more attention and credit to the wealthy individual who commissioned an art work than they did the artist.
Art school can’t teach you creativity anymore than a computer science degree makes you a creative and eloquent programmer. Creativity, innovation and insight can’t be formally taught. All formal education can do is give you raw skills, e.g. how to physically create the artwork, but it can’t teach you what the artwork should be. The latter you have to develop in yourself by unknown means. You either get it or you don’t.
Every profession’s formal training churns out uncreative hacks who are technically competent but uninspired. Nevertheless, you won’t be a great artist unless you have a solid technical foundation. Formal art training give you that. You also can’t be a great artist, or great anything, unless you train yourself to plow through long stretches of tedious, boring and uninspiring work. Art school will give you that skill as well.