If a person is older and they want to begin their creative journey then, by all means do Take Art Classes. More Artist's having fun. Thanks for your podcasts and videos.
I'm really enjoying your videos. Atm I'm watching this while sketching and having my morning coffee. A very nice experience. Also, I'm a fellow teacher. Science definitely requires more prep in advance 😂 but I can't imagine not getting exhausted running around doing a chemistry prac with a full class of kids. I haven't taught art, but one time when I poked my head in they were all painting and listening to the encanto soundtrack, it seemed like the best class ever, lol. Grass is always greener, I guess.
So much more prep!!! I had the pleasure of teaching some 5th and 6th grade science a few times, and what a blast. Science was always my favorite growing up, even considered going into entomology for a time at university. Once the kids are on a project, it’s smooth sailing. A good group of art students is perhaps the easiest thing to teach (besides perhaps upper division literature where the students literally do it all by themselves.) It’s the younger art classes that require a lot of attention, and boy do they demand it!
digital brushes def dont matter as much as people think it does, but saying that i do have brushes i prefer over others due to the textures they make learning art to the skill level a person wants to be at, can take sooo long and that is what causes so many people to give up :/
i think they do matter a lot if youve developed a style using certain brushes. changing brushes i find myself unable to make drawings on par with ones prior until i find a way to use the new brush. even if its just small differences in the brush. probably doesnt affect skill tho yea
What advice do you have that just started drawing/colored pencils/watercolor a few weeks ago at 56 years old? I’m having fun and doing fairly well considering but I feel like I want to get better and create anything that pops into my head but I realize I don’t know how yet and I work full time so attending classes isn’t realistic. So far TH-cam is my teacher.
Welcome to drawing! So glad you have decided to take it on! I took a little while trying to figure out how to respond to this. Its a serious question, and I wanted to treat it seriously. My advice takes two different avenues. The first of which is simple: find what brings you joy now, and invest half your art time in that. The things that are fun, that are play...keep at those. The habit of drawing is ingrained by this manner of thing (drawing here including watercolor as well.) The second piece of advice specifically pertains to trying to draw from your head (ie. from imagination.) You have to learn to think about the actual 3d form of an object in order to do this, and you have to practice. So try drawing from your mind. Pick simple things at first: a human face, an apple, a fish. Once you've tried, then look up a picture, and try to see what went well, and what didn't, adjust and repeat. All in all, if you find a way to enjoy most of your art time and focus on learning the other half of the time, you will keep growing. Peter Han is an amazing artist who teaches a lot on drawing from imagination in a really manageable way. Here are some of the videos I would recommend: th-cam.com/video/eaif0PpNMas/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/TiVxL9iLNGA/w-d-xo.html Hopefully those links will work! If they don't light up, you should be able to copy and paste them. Good luck!
@@zack_feldman thank you for your thoughtful response. I’m definitely enjoying the process. I’m much better when I use a reference but I’m working on using my imagination.
One issue I have as an artist is not considering myself a true artist until I'm making money doing it. But also trying to do every style of art at once and wondering why I don't get much accomplished because of it. Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it! I would encourage you to work on that notion. If you only call yourself an artist once you are making money, try throwing that into other realms. Only a basketball player once you make money? Only a writer once you've published a book? Only a... Very little if anything will change from the moment before you sell art, to the moment after you do. You will be the same person in those two instances, so the actual selling will not change you. Now, you could say "I am not at a professional art level yet" and that might be a more fair, and less judgmental way of self evaluating. I would just caution you to avoid labeling yourself unnecessarily. Have a good one!
Interesting as my opinion is almost the opposite. Making money, especially as a goal, rides a line of making a product, not art. Maybe professional artist isn't a good title for that but for me a true "artist" is a really rare thing and i dont think ill ever become one, especially if i am trying to become a true artist. all just my opinion ofc
@@cnut7383 I ran into this a lot in college...the idea that a "real artist" is one who works for themselves only. These kinds of thought problems are full to chew on, and contrary to some beliefs...I don't find them a waste of time. Assuming everyone is kind about it, haha!
I really like your podcasts. Thanks for the thoughts and experiences you share with us
So glad you like them!
If a person is older and they want to begin their creative journey then, by all means do Take Art Classes. More Artist's having fun. Thanks for your podcasts and videos.
Art classes are great if you can afford them! I've loved some over the years, especially as an older adult.
You are quite welcome!
I'm really enjoying your videos. Atm I'm watching this while sketching and having my morning coffee. A very nice experience.
Also, I'm a fellow teacher. Science definitely requires more prep in advance 😂 but I can't imagine not getting exhausted running around doing a chemistry prac with a full class of kids. I haven't taught art, but one time when I poked my head in they were all painting and listening to the encanto soundtrack, it seemed like the best class ever, lol. Grass is always greener, I guess.
So much more prep!!! I had the pleasure of teaching some 5th and 6th grade science a few times, and what a blast. Science was always my favorite growing up, even considered going into entomology for a time at university.
Once the kids are on a project, it’s smooth sailing. A good group of art students is perhaps the easiest thing to teach (besides perhaps upper division literature where the students literally do it all by themselves.) It’s the younger art classes that require a lot of attention, and boy do they demand it!
digital brushes def dont matter as much as people think it does, but saying that i do have brushes i prefer over others due to the textures they make
learning art to the skill level a person wants to be at, can take sooo long and that is what causes so many people to give up :/
i think they do matter a lot if youve developed a style using certain brushes. changing brushes i find myself unable to make drawings on par with ones prior until i find a way to use the new brush. even if its just small differences in the brush. probably doesnt affect skill tho yea
What if I've already picked up a Gollum on the side of the road?
Make sure you have a good Sam, then.
What advice do you have that just started drawing/colored pencils/watercolor a few weeks ago at 56 years old? I’m having fun and doing fairly well considering but I feel like I want to get better and create anything that pops into my head but I realize I don’t know how yet and I work full time so attending classes isn’t realistic. So far TH-cam is my teacher.
Welcome to drawing! So glad you have decided to take it on!
I took a little while trying to figure out how to respond to this. Its a serious question, and I wanted to treat it seriously.
My advice takes two different avenues. The first of which is simple: find what brings you joy now, and invest half your art time in that. The things that are fun, that are play...keep at those. The habit of drawing is ingrained by this manner of thing (drawing here including watercolor as well.)
The second piece of advice specifically pertains to trying to draw from your head (ie. from imagination.) You have to learn to think about the actual 3d form of an object in order to do this, and you have to practice. So try drawing from your mind. Pick simple things at first: a human face, an apple, a fish. Once you've tried, then look up a picture, and try to see what went well, and what didn't, adjust and repeat.
All in all, if you find a way to enjoy most of your art time and focus on learning the other half of the time, you will keep growing.
Peter Han is an amazing artist who teaches a lot on drawing from imagination in a really manageable way. Here are some of the videos I would recommend:
th-cam.com/video/eaif0PpNMas/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/TiVxL9iLNGA/w-d-xo.html
Hopefully those links will work! If they don't light up, you should be able to copy and paste them. Good luck!
@@zack_feldman thank you for your thoughtful response. I’m definitely enjoying the process. I’m much better when I use a reference but I’m working on using my imagination.
One issue I have as an artist is not considering myself a true artist until I'm making money doing it.
But also trying to do every style of art at once and wondering why I don't get much accomplished because of it.
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I would encourage you to work on that notion. If you only call yourself an artist once you are making money, try throwing that into other realms. Only a basketball player once you make money? Only a writer once you've published a book? Only a...
Very little if anything will change from the moment before you sell art, to the moment after you do. You will be the same person in those two instances, so the actual selling will not change you. Now, you could say "I am not at a professional art level yet" and that might be a more fair, and less judgmental way of self evaluating.
I would just caution you to avoid labeling yourself unnecessarily. Have a good one!
Interesting as my opinion is almost the opposite. Making money, especially as a goal, rides a line of making a product, not art. Maybe professional artist isn't a good title for that but for me a true "artist" is a really rare thing and i dont think ill ever become one, especially if i am trying to become a true artist. all just my opinion ofc
@@cnut7383 I ran into this a lot in college...the idea that a "real artist" is one who works for themselves only. These kinds of thought problems are full to chew on, and contrary to some beliefs...I don't find them a waste of time.
Assuming everyone is kind about it, haha!