Ever taken a drawing class?

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Sat May 08, 2004 7:13 pm

My mom says I should take a drawing class. I said no, because if I did I could no longer claim I can draw without ever taking a drawing class.

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Sat May 08, 2004 7:23 pm

I go to art school, so I guess the answer is "yes".

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Sat May 08, 2004 7:28 pm

I never have. I would happily take one if time permitted.

While in Yuma a while back, I had my older brother give me some tips. I learned alot of things to help my consistancy.

And as soon as I tried to apply them to my characters, they came out all screwed-up. I just need more practice.

I don't ever really care if someone took classes or was self taught. It either looks good or it doesn't.

But from what I see, the art-school kids' stuff looks better than mine.

OnyxSerpent · Post by **OnyxSerpent** » Sat May 08, 2004 7:32 pm

Most of the time, art classes haven't helped me at all.. Only once I think I had a class that actually helped me, and that was the Drawing Sci-Fi and Fantasy thing they had at one of the nearby community colleges.. The other classes I took, although they may have had interesting projects at times, didn't really help any because they spent 90% of the time just going over the basics. But that might just be because high school art classes are worth about the same as a couple of peanuts most of the time and are just there for all the lazy people trying to get their visual/performing arts credits.

But hopefully if/when I go off and major in art I'll actually have a class that helps some.

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Sat May 08, 2004 7:50 pm

Considering in Iowa, all people who set up schedules are morons, I'd have to say "No."

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sat May 08, 2004 7:55 pm

I took classes for about half-a-year, not enough to affect my art. So I might safely say that everything I learned art-wise was my own. I'd really take more if I had the oportunity (read if I lived in normal country).

Toxic, I really reccomend you take those classes.As one Art teacher once said: you'll learn on your own what you'll learn on class, only it will take you five times more.

Now, Toxic, if you want me to be frank, your art skills need lots of lots of work. I'd say (without much accuracy) a year or two with classes, 5-10 years without them. Which one would you choose?

Okie · Post by **Okie** » Sat May 08, 2004 7:59 pm

Take Medieval Art History.

Everyone must bow down to the <a href="http://www.sjolander.com/viking/museum/ ... m">Bayeaux Tapestries!</a>

The first epic comic strip battle.

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Sat May 08, 2004 8:08 pm

mcDuffies wrote: Now, Toxic, if you want me to be frank, your art skills need lots of lots of work. I'd say (without much accuracy) a year or two with classes, 5-10 years without them. Which one would you choose?

*Gives McDuffies a cross look*

I can actually draw much better than my art shows, if I spent more time on it, give me a sec to scan some stuff...

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Sat May 08, 2004 8:12 pm

I took a single year of art in high school, mostly because it was required for graduation. The only lasting effect is the clay bowl I made that I now keep my dice in.

Sometimes I think about going for some art classes when I go back to college, but the high school class really did nothing but piss me off, so . . .

Alaina · Post by **Alaina** » Sat May 08, 2004 8:18 pm

I wish I'd taken some drawing classes. Or some anatomy classes, at least.

All I've taken are some high school courses, which were just stuff like Intro to Art, Photography, and Glass Art.

I think it'd be great just to take a class to see what it's like. No harm, anyway. You can only get better.

TimberWolf · Post by **TimberWolf** » Sat May 08, 2004 8:37 pm

I've taken elective art classes. But you don't do too much. Spend one or two days on a project, hand it in. But they've gone through 3 different art teachers in the past 4 years at my high school.

One was named Tawnya Harding.

This year the art teacher 'suggested' that we enter a piece into an art contest at a nearby university. And by suggested I mean enter it in or I'll get pissed and dock your grade a half letter.

I'm considering getting a minor in art, though. But enough computer classes, where I'm going, are related enough so I could get a second major in animation and design.

Erm... I've gotten sidetracked here.

No I've never taken an art class.

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Sat May 08, 2004 9:17 pm

Feel free to assess my drawing abilities:

Sketch of my beloved pet rat

Electrostat meter, drawn for physics paper

Devil wasp, character sketch for upcoming flash movie (need to work on eyes)

Sij, the main character from my first flash movie

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Sat May 08, 2004 9:18 pm

Back in high school. But I draw much better now.

ZOMBIE USER 16849 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 16849** » Sat May 08, 2004 9:18 pm

Heh. I'd say my piece on the matter, but that's been done enough with this old thread.

viewtopic.php?t=57008&highlight=art+instruction+schools

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Sat May 08, 2004 9:29 pm

TOXIC AVENGER! wrote: *Gives McDuffies a cross look*

I can actually draw much better than my art shows, if I spent more time on it, give me a sec to scan some stuff...

I'm in your corner, Toxic...

I see that your art is very deliberately stylized. It can't change much without alienating itself from it's intended effect.

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Sat May 08, 2004 9:35 pm

Art classes?
What are those?

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Sat May 08, 2004 9:46 pm

Superlance wrote:Art classes?
What are those?

Gosh that depresses me. I spent a week trying to learn the kind of photoshop tricks to make my comic look like yours and others where color and shading were concerned.

I got no where near it.

I would have felt much better to hear that you were schooled by some ancient master in the skills of photoshop treatment.

In a cave.

You peeps with all your talent just depress me.

Stinkywigfiddle · Post by **Stinkywigfiddle** » Sat May 08, 2004 10:15 pm

I am in an art school right now, but I'm not sure if I want to stay here. I'll probably have to.
It would be nice to be able to say that I was self-taught. But I've taken art classes in the past too.

Okie · Post by **Okie** » Sat May 08, 2004 10:22 pm

Art classes?
What are those?

Every student at the University of Oklahoma School of Fine Arts had to take a General Art Theory Class taught by the Dean of the school.

The very first thing, and the most important thing I learned in all of my art education was something very simple.

A pile of oily rags can burst into flame all by itself.

The second thing he told us is: Paint can Kill you.

One could deduce an entire philosophical cosmogeny from those two simple precepts... But most of the people just doodled during that class. I used that class to draw storyboards for my Film 1 projects.

We had to present two slides of our previous work for the entire class to look at and discuss. I put up my slide of The Frog Prince. A tree frog wearing the Crown Jewels.

A Classmate asked: Did you just cut out a picture of the crown and stick it on the photo of the frog in Photoshop? That doesn't seem like much effort to me.

My response: Its a color pencil drawing on matte board, not a photograph.

Three years later I won the school Art show, beating out 400 other students. It was the first year a video art piece won. And for three weeks the sounds of a woman grunting & moaning were heard throughout the museum... The one piece that I thought was least likely to be accepted, was accepted, and won me $1,000 dollars. Someday, I may even share The Pinky Benson with you guys.

Stinkywigfiddle · Post by **Stinkywigfiddle** » Sat May 08, 2004 10:28 pm

One thing I learned in life drawing class:
A topless woman wearing pants can be more atractive than a woman completely naked.

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