Let out the ARTIST in you!!!!

[Sarasvati21]

Wow, everyone is so talented!!

Here are a few of mine:

http://picasaweb.google.com/21sarasvati

[Lily Adams]

Thanks Lily!! The teacher tends to complain about my style because I'm such a perfectionist with my work and she hates it! I'm a very difficult art student

What the?! What kinda art teacher is that?!

That locust is pretty cool. You really do have a very different style. I can't place my finger on it, but it is indeed very intricate.



Whoah, so's that birthday drawing, Shannanigan!

[Sarasvati21]

'Birthday drawing,' Lily?

[sprinks]

What the?! What kinda art teacher is that?!

That locust is pretty cool. You really do have a very different style. I can't place my finger on it, but it is indeed very intricate.

Exactly. I'm just holding out 'till next year when we get to do our own thing! And then I can do what I like and she can't do a thing! . I miss our old art teacher, to him EVERYTHING was art. Some girl scribbled over this horse she drew and he was like "That is amazing! It is art!" whereas my new art teacher told me at the start of the year I would fail because my outlines are too dark and I'm too much of a perfectionist


And thankyou all for your compliments!

[Sweets America]

Wooooo, this birthday drawing is just brilliant!!

Oh, Sprinks, I have news for you: your teacher is stupid and kind of mean.

[sprinks]

It's good to know people agree with me - I almost dropped art because of her, and many of my friends who are great artists didn't do art this year because they didn't want her as a teacher, which is really sad.

This isn't my best thing, but it was done in my favourite medium - fineliner and water. It was one of my practise angels before the final one.

[Shannanigan]

'Birthday drawing,' Lily?

The drawing I posted was a birthday gift

I love all these drawings! (so jealous!)

[Lily Adams]

'Birthday drawing,' Lily?

Yeah, I meant Shaninnigan, sorry.

Exactly. I'm just holding out 'till next year when we get to do our own thing! And then I can do what I like and she can't do a thing! . I miss our old art teacher, to him EVERYTHING was art. Some girl scribbled over this horse she drew and he was like "That is amazing! It is art!" whereas my new art teacher told me at the start of the year I would fail because my outlines are too dark and I'm too much of a perfectionist

That person is not an art teacher and does not understand the meaning of art.

I am kinda scared for next year at school. I'll be taking Art I, my first formal art class, and I don't want the teacher to tell me what to do. D: Ew. It'll be like when I took band. I hope not...or else the teacher will look at my drawings be all, "What the HECK is that?!"

But I think I'm over-thinking it.

[sprinks]

That person is not an art teacher and does not understand the meaning of art.

I am kinda scared for next year at school. I'll be taking Art I, my first formal art class, and I don't want the teacher to tell me what to do. D: Ew. It'll be like when I took band. I hope not...or else the teacher will look at my drawings be all, "What the HECK is that?!"

But I think I'm over-thinking it.

Good luck with your art class , and if your teacher tells you what to do like mine does we'll group together and have a mutiny!! A rebellion!! We'll paint over the world in our own unique styles!! That'll teach them, they wont be able to stop us!

[Chava]

Ok, i feel the need to stand up for my art teachers over the years. Ever since i started taking art seriously, around 9th grade, teachers have had to put up with me doing my own thing. Conversations would go along the lines of "You don't think shading the bricks will make the background too dark..?" "no" end of story.
However, when i took art in my too last years of high school, i had to start moving away from my traditional way of drawing to answer the assignments. And yeah, spending hours doing assignments about drawing trees, or round objects is a bore. But in the end it's those techniques you gather that help you develop your own style. And regardless how good i thought i had done someting, my excellent teacher could always point out a flaw, and so i ended up working very hard on my art to make it just right. There will always be room for improvement with me.
For now i'm very happy with the versatility i have adopted. I can work in most media's, and i'm no longer in the rut of my 'dark' drawings, i can post them for you if you want to see my 'then' and 'now' movement.

My brother had a bad art teacher. He adopted the 'wrong' and 'right' attitude which is not always correct. (sometimes your work can be 'wrong' not in the sense that it isn't art, but in the sense that it doesn't fulfill criteria and assignments.) He would rip my brothers drawings apart if he found them 'wrong'. Now that... is a bad art teacher.

[sprinks]

Ok, i feel the need to stand up for my art teachers over the years. Ever since i started taking art seriously, around 9th grade, teachers have had to put up with me doing my own thing. Conversations would go along the lines of "You don't think shading the bricks will make the background too dark..?" "no" end of story.
However, when i took art in my too last years of high school, i had to start moving away from my traditional way of drawing to answer the assignments. And yeah, spending hours doing assignments about drawing trees, or round objects is a bore. But in the end it's those techniques you gather that help you develop your own style. And regardless how good i thought i had done someting, my excellent teacher could always point out a flaw, and so i ended up working very hard on my art to make it just right. There will always be room for improvement with me.
For now i'm very happy with the versatility i have adopted. I can work in most media's, and i'm no longer in the rut of my 'dark' drawings, i can post them for you if you want to see my 'then' and 'now' movement.

What is hard, for almost my entire art class, is that we never learnt art. I've got one friend who's had actual classes for drawing etc. but apart from that, especially myself, I've never learnt to draw or anything at all, excepting one class in year 9 where we learnt to do water colour painting. That... was all. So none of us know art terms either, which makes essays hard, but no teachers ever sat us down and taught us different techniques or terms.

I point out my flaws more than my teacher does. The locust that I drew and posted around the place, I found about 8 places where I messed up and wasn't happy with it, but the teacher had ONE criticism.

I'm thankful to my year 8 art teacher. He was the first one to ever notice my "talent". He encouraged me to continue doing art in the following years, and if it wasn't for that I would have abandoned art completely about 3 years ago, as I didn't think I was any good at art at all (Which is untrue if you see my art that I've posted.)

But it's been hard going from one extreme to another in teaching styles, and it's a little to do with being in year 11, but a major part is the teachers themselves. My art teacher said to me at the start of the year "I can see you're going to be one of those students" I'm still not clear as to what she meant exactly

My brother had a bad art teacher. He adopted the 'wrong' and 'right' attitude which is not always correct. (sometimes your work can be 'wrong' not in the sense that it isn't art, but in the sense that it doesn't fulfill criteria and assignments.) He would rip my brothers drawings apart if he found them 'wrong'. Now that... is a bad art teacher.

Well then my art teacher is still a bad art teacher. She throws peoples drawings out if they aren't "right" which actually deeply hurt some of my friends.

[Lily Adams]

Good luck with your art class , and if your teacher tells you what to do like mine does we'll group together and have a mutiny!! A rebellion!! We'll paint over the world in our own unique styles!! That'll teach them, they wont be able to stop us!

Thank you.

YEAH! We could be PIRATES! Arrrr!

They won't. >: D *high fives with tentacle*

[Sweets America]

Well then my art teacher is still a bad art teacher. She throws peoples drawings out if they aren't "right" which actually deeply hurt some of my friends.

I can't understand this attitude, that's crazy! I remember my art teacher when I was younger, she said I should carry on with art because I had talent, and I loved drawing and painting but I did not go into this field, partly because I was young and adults around told me that this field had no future....and I was too stupid not to listen to them. Anyway all studies have no future, if you listen to people!
But my art classes were extremely relaxing to me, I loved them, and I never lost this relaxing feeling, I have it everytime I draw.

Oh, Sprinks, I need to ask you...do you have a foot fetish or something? Because I see feet everywhere in your posts.

[sprinks]

Thank you.

YEAH! We could be PIRATES! Arrrr!

They won't. >: D *high fives with tentacle*

yeah next time the art teacher says something I don't like or asks me why I haven't done what she wants I'll reply "Arrrr me hearty, me parrot flew away and I had to sail the seven seas looking for 'im! No time for doing your work there when I gots me parrot to look for!" Then after she gives me a weird look I'll tell her it's a mutiny

I can't understand this attitude, that's crazy! I remember my art teacher when I was younger, she said I should carry on with art because I had talent, and I loved drawing and painting but I did not go into this field, partly because I was young and adults around told me that this field had no future....and I was too stupid not to listen to them. Anyway all studies have no future, if you listen to people!
But my art classes were extremely relaxing to me, I loved them, and I never lost this relaxing feeling, I have it everytime I draw.

Oh, Sprinks, I need to ask you...do you have a foot fetish or something? Because I see feet everywhere in your posts.

yeah whenever someone suggests that I become an artist I prompty am reminded by someone else that "it's a lonely life as an artist and it's hard to make money!!" But then again... yeah, I get told that about most studies
For some reason I just can not work in class. At home I can sit for 8 hours straight and draw and paint and everything... But when I'm in class I just freeze and don't do a thing. I think it's mainly to do with being watched by people (our classes are very, well, open, and it's easy to watch people) and they're criticising me and those desks are just so darn uncomfortable!

I can assure you I don't have a foot fetish!! I got bored one night and played around with my profile... And decided at the time to use photos from camp... Actually both those photos are from the same place... My avatar is my legs (stripy knee high socks are awesome! ) at the cascades, and in my signature its a photo of when one of my best friends, a friend of ours and I put our feet into the water at the cascades after walking 7 km!

[Sweets America]

yeah whenever someone suggests that I become an artist I prompty am reminded by someone else that "it's a lonely life as an artist and it's hard to make money!!" But then again... yeah, I get told that about most studies
For some reason I just can not work in class. At home I can sit for 8 hours straight and draw and paint and everything... But when I'm in class I just freeze and don't do a thing. I think it's mainly to do with being watched by people (our classes are very, well, open, and it's easy to watch people) and they're criticising me and those desks are just so darn uncomfortable!

I can assure you I don't have a foot fetish!! I got bored one night and played around with my profile... And decided at the time to use photos from camp... Actually both those photos are from the same place... My avatar is my legs (stripy knee high socks are awesome! ) at the cascades, and in my signature its a photo of when one of my best friends, a friend of ours and I put our feet into the water at the cascades after walking 7 km!

I was not very at ease in class either but it was ok, once I was in my drawing it was peaceful, and we also discussed with the others so it was cool. I remember it was every Friday, the last class of the week, that was great.

Actually I wonder if I might be the one with the foot fetish because I love your avatar, those socks!! They look great! Oh and the feeling of putting your feet in fresh water after a long walk must be so grand.