I wish I would have taken art classes but I never made the time. Now I’m just using TH-cam, books and some online tutorials to try to learn. Fortunately, my main focus is having fun and learning as much as I can. It’s also great because I can share my learning process with my 2nd grade students, especially my mistakes, and then enjoy them trying their own artworks. They love sharing what they’ve done.
I sometimes wish I had, too, but our experiences really do dictate who we are, and we wouldn't be the us we became if not for the experiences we had. Basically, if we'd taken different paths, we would be different people. I'm loving my current exploration in the world of art, and am fortunate to be sharing this with some fabulous people.
That's a wonderful attitude. 2nd grade is so much fun to teach too, they still have that curiosity and love that 1st graders do. I loved teaching the lower grades like that. They often asked what grades I wanted to teach, and my response was usually: first and second, and eleventh and twelfth grades.
wow this is really good advice, your videos are great! i didn’t even notice i was 10 minutes in until you mentioned it. im guilty of practicing and never putting it into play/a project, & the question of what is my purpose/objective has really given me a new perspective on my journey on art
Hey man, I just want to say how much you sound like a version of myself just a few years older and wiser. I am very glad to have stumbled upon your TH-cam channel.
Listening to this story, reminds me of my experience with art teachers. They basicly all had the same cookie cut idea of what you should do. U gotta do realism. Yes i was very good at that even when i was only 10 but never made any more progress on that because they simply said you know it all we cant teach u anything new. So i basicly said well then i will just try all mediums, which didnt bring me any further because i was again great with all. Thats the only thing that happened all the time, trying and being great. They said you have talent. But because they never gave suggestions in any direction i was just rowing in my own lane completely lost of how to get anywhere. I didnt really know what to do to come to what i like which is illustrating cute things. I wish there was just 1 person Who would have said hey try this, instead of petting you on the back and say well done. Just because u have talent doesnt mean you dont need guidance.
You were probably less stressful for the teachers, and they put the time into students who were more needy. This is a struggle when acting as a teacher - every student deserves time, but some need it to simply hit a baseline of quality or knowledge. Because art is never done or perfect, every one of us can be pushed to be better, to understand more, or to experiment and integrate more. You are correct, it would have been great to have someone push you toward new things. What kind of artwork do you do nowadays?
@@zack_feldman i would have loved a teacher like you. But i understand why things happened as they did. I try to make small illustrations of cute characters or animals in mostly alcohol markers and pencil. Or watercolor and then pencil. But i still love all mediums so i tend to switch it up from time to time. Thats why i love Inktober yet again another medium. Im curious to see what comes out at the end of Inktober when you finish some of your story. It looks exciting.
I practiced and practiced and practiced...thank goodness it didn't take me so long as to see the heat deth of the earth to find my footing. Your community helped me find that and I am truly grateful 😊
I am glad too! I wish there was some reality we could share with young artists...to let them know that it takes X amount of time if you do x, y, and z. Its just not simple.
I think techniques can be taught. How to hold your brush, how much water to add to your paint, how to mix colours, and so on. But how to express yourself, what you see, is going to come from your own practice in applying and playing with the medium(s). Putting it into a project piece.
I would tend to agree. I think there is a subset of techniques that comes after basic things like that as well, that many think can be taught...and I'm not sure they can be. I think they can be demonstrated, but not learned unless they are actually put into practice. Shading might be an example here, or perspective drawing, or rotating forms. They can be taught...but no one understands or executes them after simply being taught, they require investment. Whereas the vocabulary, art history, identifiers of medium or quality - those can be outright taught. Its an odd and interesting thing. Much work...much practice...
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I wish I would have taken art classes but I never made the time. Now I’m just using TH-cam, books and some online tutorials to try to learn. Fortunately, my main focus is having fun and learning as much as I can. It’s also great because I can share my learning process with my 2nd grade students, especially my mistakes, and then enjoy them trying their own artworks. They love sharing what they’ve done.
I sometimes wish I had, too, but our experiences really do dictate who we are, and we wouldn't be the us we became if not for the experiences we had. Basically, if we'd taken different paths, we would be different people.
I'm loving my current exploration in the world of art, and am fortunate to be sharing this with some fabulous people.
That's a wonderful attitude. 2nd grade is so much fun to teach too, they still have that curiosity and love that 1st graders do. I loved teaching the lower grades like that. They often asked what grades I wanted to teach, and my response was usually: first and second, and eleventh and twelfth grades.
wow this is really good advice, your videos are great! i didn’t even notice i was 10 minutes in until you mentioned it. im guilty of practicing and never putting it into play/a project, & the question of what is my purpose/objective has really given me a new perspective on my journey on art
So glad, and thank you!
Hey man, I just want to say how much you sound like a version of myself just a few years older and wiser. I am very glad to have stumbled upon your TH-cam channel.
Listening to this story, reminds me of my experience with art teachers. They basicly all had the same cookie cut idea of what you should do. U gotta do realism. Yes i was very good at that even when i was only 10 but never made any more progress on that because they simply said you know it all we cant teach u anything new. So i basicly said well then i will just try all mediums, which didnt bring me any further because i was again great with all. Thats the only thing that happened all the time, trying and being great. They said you have talent. But because they never gave suggestions in any direction i was just rowing in my own lane completely lost of how to get anywhere. I didnt really know what to do to come to what i like which is illustrating cute things. I wish there was just 1 person Who would have said hey try this, instead of petting you on the back and say well done. Just because u have talent doesnt mean you dont need guidance.
You were probably less stressful for the teachers, and they put the time into students who were more needy. This is a struggle when acting as a teacher - every student deserves time, but some need it to simply hit a baseline of quality or knowledge.
Because art is never done or perfect, every one of us can be pushed to be better, to understand more, or to experiment and integrate more. You are correct, it would have been great to have someone push you toward new things.
What kind of artwork do you do nowadays?
@@zack_feldman i would have loved a teacher like you. But i understand why things happened as they did. I try to make small illustrations of cute characters or animals in mostly alcohol markers and pencil. Or watercolor and then pencil. But i still love all mediums so i tend to switch it up from time to time. Thats why i love Inktober yet again another medium. Im curious to see what comes out at the end of Inktober when you finish some of your story. It looks exciting.
I practiced and practiced and practiced...thank goodness it didn't take me so long as to see the heat deth of the earth to find my footing. Your community helped me find that and I am truly grateful 😊
I am glad too!
I wish there was some reality we could share with young artists...to let them know that it takes X amount of time if you do x, y, and z. Its just not simple.
Very eye opening and good for thought about practice vs projects.
I hope so! Have a good one!
@@zack_feldman Thanks! You too!
I think techniques can be taught. How to hold your brush, how much water to add to your paint, how to mix colours, and so on. But how to express yourself, what you see, is going to come from your own practice in applying and playing with the medium(s). Putting it into a project piece.
I would tend to agree. I think there is a subset of techniques that comes after basic things like that as well, that many think can be taught...and I'm not sure they can be. I think they can be demonstrated, but not learned unless they are actually put into practice. Shading might be an example here, or perspective drawing, or rotating forms. They can be taught...but no one understands or executes them after simply being taught, they require investment.
Whereas the vocabulary, art history, identifiers of medium or quality - those can be outright taught.
Its an odd and interesting thing. Much work...much practice...