Originally posted by PVS
next time dont do that. i mean, listen to their advice, consider it, and then decide for yourself. dont let them dictate....you may have to eat a lower grade (if he/she is an assh0le) but are you doing this for enjoyment or for a grade? any decent teacher would respect you more for going your own route (as long as you respectfully decline them as opposed to "uh no, you're an idiot" 😛 )
My teacher's really nice. But she doesnt put up with bullshit, either.
It was due a half month ago. I turned it in looking like this. She gave me an 80 on it, so i was pleased.
I think she's more impressed with my "determination" and effort on finishing the art work, i think more than my skills. I stayed after school on the LAST DAY of scool one day, just to finish a art book thing.
But she grades us on Talent, mainly, and counts off if you turn it in late. I take advantage over that a lot, because i know she'll always give me an 80. 🙄
Originally posted by PVS
i actually had one professor (real ballbreaker) who would intentionally give his students bad advice to get them to stand up for their work.
Thats crap. I asked my teacher what color she thought i should of added, because im not in that point of my art telent where i trust myself on making COLOR decisions.
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Today, we're doing Inset-er gagits. (Where u add a kitchen item on a inset).
Im doing a Grass Hopper, and putting a bloody knife for the body.
... it.. looks... shhhhhhit-ty. Omg, lol.
But it's due tomorrow, so i dont care about it. The idea i had was cool.
Originally posted by LÉONpro2007
Thats crap. I asked my teacher what color she thought i should of added, because im not in that point of my art telent where i trust myself on making COLOR decisions.
yes you are capable, and you should trust yourself.
through experience you can keep from making decisions you're not happy with, but the only way is to...make decisions you're not happy with. (notice i didnt say 'bad' or 'wrong' decisions, because thats not what its about)
eventually you find your knack and it all becomes second nature. if you take someone else's decision and you're not happy with it...then you learn nothing, because you took no part in the thought process. what im saying is there is no 'right' or 'wrong' way. there is just your way, and thats what you need to explore if you want to get into the more 'messy' arts.
sorry to sound all preachy, but thats what you'll pay a few thousand dollars in tuition for a fine arts professor to tell you. and im only charging you half that. 😄
Originally posted by PVS
yes you are capable, and you should trust yourself.
through experience you can keep from making decisions you're not happy with, but the only way is to...make decisions you're not happy with. (notice i didnt say 'bad' or 'wrong' decisions, because thats not what its about)eventually you find your knack and it all becomes second nature. if you take someone else's decision and you're not happy with it...then you learn nothing, because you took no part in the thought process. what im saying is there is no 'right' or 'wrong' way. there is just your way, and thats what you need to explore if you want to get into the more 'messy' arts.
Very true.
My problem with art is allowing myself to let GO of making it look exactly like the object/person i'm doing.
SURrealism sells more the REALism, i belive... bcuz it's not boring.
Originally posted by PVS
sorry to sound all preachy, but thats what you'll pay a few thousand dollars in tuition for a fine arts professor to tell you. and im only charging you half that. 😄
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today im going to scan some of my work from last year... if they arent too big for the scanner.
the big obsticle for me was the ability to bullshit. i mean--> analise your thought process ad nauseum.
i never was able to stand there and explain why i chose to paint whatever however. i just did it, and that was that. "well, why did you decide to do that?"
"um....because i thought it would look cool..........i guess"
well, thats not good enough for the fine arts types. to them you may as well show up at a critique naked.
Because it looks cool.... we'll good enough reason to me.
And yeah, explaining why... that kinda gets to me. I am a tv director and I am so fed up with constantly explaining everything I have in mind beforehand to a producer who has no imagination. Sometimes I make decisions or choices based on gut feeling or association... there's not always a rationale to it... And if tehre is I find it boring. Though I am good a bullshitting when it's finished to explain how it all relates to the story... But that is just sales.. hehehehe
Two years ago. Art 2 - 10th grade (2004-2005):
Confusion:
I titled it that, bcuz i was so confused on what i was supposed to do, and the styles. And I was working on this when i was going threw a rough time. Look closely and u may find a tear drop... maybe.
Skeet:
The titles really and inside thing with my friends in the class, to my teacher, because she doesnt know what "Skeet" truely means in the eyes of teens.
Dark Forest:
... i just needed to call it something. Not my favorite, but my vision was cool.
Fantasy City:
Not the title, either, that was the name of the assignment. I worked on this while the class was watching ROTJ. Everyone seems to love it, but you can tell i rushed to finish.
Reflection:
Yes this is me... my teacher helped me a bunch painting it, bcuz this was my 1st time to use oil acrylics.
you're doing it again
you have to decide.😛
ok, i think blue was a valid suggestion, as well green could have been...you just need to stay away from bright pastel-like colors, unless you can find some way to make it work with the ground. so if you're talking about white paint with a touch of black, that most likely wont end well. if you're talking about a rich gray with a blue and/or green hue, that might be nice...but it might not. i can say with certainty that you wont like a straight gray...but then again it may be a statement to do so....**** if i know. thats why i think teachers leaning into students in fine arts is a paradox. defeats the whole point of what you're doing.
but as per basics: keep it consistant. research artists like picasso
see how he unified his works, often through using like elements/color/texture in forground and background. no colors/elements/textures, etc seemed like it didnt belong there.
sometimes the slightest accent of color does the trick
just a slight red tone and green tone in the white figure, and it
pulls the figure and ground together.
treat it as a whole piece, and make sure that in some form or another, no matter how subtle or blatant, there is a sense of unity throughout the piece.
easier said than done, i know.
