OMFG! an actual poll. (Art Classes)

[Yeahduff]

BFA in painting and drawing and all I have to show for it is a webcomic.

[Pillywiggin]

I'd take some college classes, but a) The entry level classes are always full when I get to register

and b) All the non-entry level classes either have the entry-level classes as a prerequisite or are for majors only.

Here here. So true.

I did manage to get into a 2-D design class. We made a colour wheel.

I might try to get into a drawing class at the community college this summer.

[Levi-chan]

Not me. I got all the art education I currently have from Yoshitoshi ABe's works! Err...

*continues gushing over his works*

The only art classes I had were in primary school - and my teacher always gave me a 75 (equivalent to a C). She'd take what I do, then place it in front of the class, then the following would ensume:

Teacher: Class, don't you agree that the thought that went into this piece was good?

Class: Yes Ma'am!

Teacher: Yep. But, there's something wrong with it. Would any of you like to point it out....?

And I'd just weep in a corner. The humanity!

[Kirb]

I took an art class once. In seventh grade, I think.
...
I made a clay turtle.

[Leko]

I took a "drawing from life" class over the summer. Didn't learn anything much except that actually drawing from life is a good thing. Got a bunch of awesome sketches out of it, though.

[Prettydragoon]

I had art in school, all the way up through the end of high school. You had to take either art or music, and I took art. That was some time ago, though.

[Soap Committee]

I haven't thought about it, but I guess it's been about a year and a half of me taking drawing courses! I'm going for a BA...possibly a BFA, if I'm good enough to get in.

God dang, I've improved. Some classes felt a bit like a waste of time, but others have vastly helped.

[McDuffies]

It's tough for me to answer...

I've been to comicbook drawing classes... for about one semester before some unfortunate events stopped it... I can't really say that I learned any drawing from there. I did learn a bunch of useful hints for artists, and that's when my artistic ethics formed as it is now. But as for actual drawing, I learned in elsewhere.
To add to that, I think that drawing classes are useful, they speed up the process of learning. Problem with them is, though, that I've often seen a teacher forcing his art style and his ethics - most often unintentionally - to students (when I say forcing a work ethics, I've been in situation to see an entire class of young comic artists claiming that it's more important to draw cars correctly in details, than to have a good script - and I know that it's just what I've been arguing about with their professor...) so I think it's better to come to such school with some bases of knowledge already formed or not to let them influence you so much... I guess a guy has to be heavy on self-confidence to go through it.

[Fennex]

No real art classes, but when I was still a little boy I took those kids' art classes for a very long time. Then someday I asked the teacher how to draw birds. She scribbled a couple lines on a sheet of paper and I told her that it didn't look like a bird. She was not amused.

[Sput]

*vents about art class*


Commercial art must not be for me. I, apparantly, can't designa cookie box and will therefore fail as a graphics artist.


Oh, the tears I shall shed. :lol:

[Dutch!]

Heh...maybe this little song is relevant...


The little boy went first day at school, he got some crayons and he started to draw.
He drew colours all over the paper, cos colour was what he saw.
And the teacher said 'What you doin', young man?'
'I'm painting flowers!' he said.
She said, 'it's not the time for art young man, and anyway flowers are green and red.
'There's a time for everything young man, and the way it should be done.
You have to show concern for everyone else, cos you're not the only one.'

And she said 'Flowers are red young man, and green leaves are green.
'There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.'

But the little boy said, 'There are so many colours in the rainbow!
So many colours in the morning sun!
So many colours in a flower and I see every one!'

Well the teacher said 'You're sassy! There's ways that things should be.
And you'll draw flowers the way they are, so repeat after me:'

And she said 'Flowers are red young man, and green leaves are green.
'There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.'

But the little boy said again, 'There are so many colours in the rainbow!
So many colours in the morning sun!
So many colours in a flower and I see every one!'

Well the teacher put him in the corner, she said, 'it's for your own good.
'And you won't come out until you get it right and all responding like you should.'
Well finally he got lonely, frightened thoughts filled his head.
So he went up to the teacher and this is what he said:

He said, 'Flowers are red. And green leaves are green.
'There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.'

Well time goes by like it always does and they moved to another town.
And the little boy went to another school and this is what he found.
The teacher there was smiling, she said, 'painting should be fun!
'And there are so many colours in a flower so let's use every one!'
But the little boy painted flowers in neat rows of green and red.
And when the teacher asked him why, this is what he said:

He said, 'Flowers are red. And green leaves are green.
'There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.'

But there must be a way to have our children say:
'There are so many colours in the rainbow!
So many colours in the morning sun!
So many colours in a flower and I see every one!'

[Alaina]

There's this art class for the human anatomy I wanna take next year--the teacher takes the students to see cadavers!

(And there's an anatomy class at SRJC which lets you dissect cadavers.)

[Soap Committee]

That's really cool. @_@

[Spoder Mon]

uhhhhhhhh yeah

[KittyKatBlack]

There's this art class for the human anatomy I wanna take next year--the teacher takes the students to see cadavers!

(And there's an anatomy class at SRJC which lets you dissect cadavers.)

Dead people scare me.

[Pimpette]

I'm going to say no, since I only took one required one in eighth grade. our district had this policy of PICK YOUR ONE GIFT AND THAT'S ALL YOU GET TO NURTURE!!! so in high school I opted for voice lessons over art.

Mine did that too

From drama, art, and music, I picked art. But I wanted to do all three. Boo.

Still, I had fun in art, at least in the random years I took it: grade nine, eleven (plus "cyberarts" in grade eleven, goddamn that was dumb; I had to explain things to the teacher more than a few times. He joked at me once "hey, you should teach the class!" I was like, "yeah, I should.")
Plus some life drawing in my first year of college. We had a couple models, but mostly posed for and drew each other, as our teacher couldn't get ahold of many models.
Fun though.

[BrownEyedCat]

*flower song*

. . . That is the saddest song I've ever read texted on a message board . . .

[Nyke]

There's this art class for the human anatomy I wanna take next year--the teacher takes the students to see cadavers!

(And there's an anatomy class at SRJC which lets you dissect cadavers.)

Did they ever have people disguised as dead just to scare y'all?

[Alaina]

"Haha, hey kids, I'm just kidding, I ain't dead! Funny joke huh....OH MY GOD THERE'S A SCALPEL IN MY STOMACH!!"

[Dutch!]

*flower song*

. . . That is the saddest song I've ever read texted on a message board . . .

Poignant, not necessarily sad.

Written by the same bloke that did Cat's In The Cradle.

(No, not Ugly Kid Joe)