I barely had one good art teacher in my education. In high school I had one that was so terrible and demotivating that he told me not to go to art school because you don't want to be a starving artist. If I think how nobody told me about all the possible art career that actually exist, I feel so mad. Probably I wouldn't have gave up on art after one disappointing year at Fine Arts Academy if I realized that there were other options rather than being a fine art painter.. Ahhh I feel so mad. But it was also my fault, I gave up too soon. Now I'm 30 and I'm starting again, teaching my self, restoring my dream to be an artist and hoping to be one day a full time illustrator. Anyway, I loved this video very much, thank you for sharing and inspiring us! Your sketches are amazing. Cheers :)
i hear so many of these horror stories and I just can't wrap my head around how an art teacher could say that to a student >< unless it was some super harsh "tough love" method/reverse psychology haha. Thanks so much for watching and best of luck on your journey!
When I had art in elementary and junior it was always about craftsy sort of "do whatever you want" classes. We never learned anything, no fundamentals which was awful since I was contemplating taking art seriously. Even in HS my first year, it was "do whatever you want" so without putting in much effort I got high scores. So I didn't continue taking art classes but I wish I did because it turns out the next year they had an actual art teacher who taught the fundamentals and was a harsh grader. I could've learned a lot
I would love to see teaching videos! You seem to have such good knowledge of technique, terminology, color theory, etc that I would love to see you teaching through a painting, or how you draw these face sketches, maybe one painting in several techniques/mediums to teach the differences... There's just so many things I'd love to learn from you!
Aaah this reminds me of my two favorite art teachers. Mr. François and Mr. Ian. They were very funny while being strict during class. They taught us academic perspective, watercolors, realism, anatomy, crafting a tiny room with recycled objects... gouache... the list goes on! I am not afraid to say that I was one of their favorite students along with some of my friends. Probably because of our attitude and how we took art seriously compared to the other students taking the art option only to talk and fool around. They believed so much in me and my talent that I don't think I would be where I am today without them. Anyway, it's 3 am, why am I being nostalgic now? XD
I never had an art teacher besides in elementary, curse being in a small town! I'm in college now, training to be an art teacher, and classes with real teachers at first made me feel bad because of how behind I was. Over time though, they helped me improve far faster than I could have on my own!
When I saw the title I knew the had to be good, and I was right! Honestly I’m so excited right now that I still need to finish watching the video but wanted to comment first. I had been to the United States when I was very little and lived here for a couple years but when I was 6 is when we permanently moved. I recall that the only reason I was willing to give up family and move was to see snow. Though we landed in Washington the air gave me a wonderland feeling and at school it literally felt like hogwarts ( it was super fun!) in India our teachers were never this caring and only cared about grades but here, my teachers loved me and always had chats about my art and my work… they encouraged me every single day which is a feeling you will only understand if you immigrated. Nowadays, my 6 year old sister’s teachers aren’t as caring as mine were and there is a lot more competition even in middle school art. We moved to Texas an year back and I was so attached to Washington that I cried fir hours… but of course I’ve come to find good things in Texas, but I will always have an attachment to my first home in the U.S 💖 your art is as always amazing and the stories are fantastic!
Art teacher discussions always get me so on edge..when I was young it was great but high school I stopped caring about school as much and was very moody but I did enjoy my art classes but my teachers always seemed to have favorites and focused all their effort on them. Even had times where they would compare you to these kids which for a long time really has held me down making me think I'm not good. They don't realize they can have a huge impact.
I had an amazing art teacher in high school. She was supper supportive of eveyeryone and if you where willing to learn she would be super nice. She let us push the boundaries and experiment. Really I couldn't have asked for a better teacher
I was really luck to have two really great art teachers in middle and highschool who exposed us to all different kinds of mediums and elements in art history. I did oil painting in highschool, our art 4 class was 3D art which i was initially annoyed about but now I'm grateful for the experience with architecture, and wire sculpture, quilting/sewing, we even got to do installations around the school! In college I was surprised to hear from many of my art friends that they did almost nothing in art class highschool, or the teachers let them do what they wanted.
The most memorable and best teacher I have ever had was for grade 12 textiles. I had messed up my academics pretty bad as all of my high school years were spent heavily struggling with my mental health with the illusion of me “responsibly” doing my schooling online. For grade 12 I went back to public school to enter their program which specifically helps you regain missing credits so you’re still able to get your diploma and such. It’s a bit daunting to have four years of schooling to complete in all but a year, but I sure tried. Textiles was the only class outside of the program I was allowed to take and I didn’t expect much from it. There was so much weight I had put on myself to properly fix all the self sabotage I had done, I pretty much already was letting myself give up. My textiles teacher, god how I’m so grateful I had her in my life during that time, she was the most precious thing I’ve ever met, and somehow she had the magic to get you to keep trying. Even though I didn’t talk much in her class, she could tell when things weren’t the best for me. Each time she’d just sit next to me and chat about the most random things or rave about the kookiness of my apparel. She knew I had a lot on my plate and she basically told me, even if I didn’t turn in a single assignment, this class can just simply be a place for me to take a break from it all. I did, at least, turn in a few assignments. She pretty much saw something in my work that I didn’t. She adored the way I saw things and my way of going about it with medium, she constantly had a smile on her face whenever she saw anything I worked on. I was by no means the best artist in the class, I had pretty low confidence in all my art of any form, but for some reason she always raved about what I did. Maybe it was just simple encouragement, maybe there really was something there idk. But she always encouraged me to explore any and every idea I had, and I’m very grateful for that. On top of just creating a joyous and creative atmosphere you thrived to be around, she always was there to talk to. This is sad, but there were times that just because she cared and always offered to listen, I’d just kinda crumble right then and there when she’d say anything to me. No matter how bad of a state I was in, she always continued to encourage me and be proud of the fact I was even trying. She’s literally the reason I haven’t given up, and the reason I fell back into my connection with drawing. And probably the reason I like yellow so much now tbh. All in all, she did so much more for me than she probably know, and I’m really glad that was the only teacher led class they let me take. Definitely wouldn’t have made it this far without her morning class.
It is interesting to hear how your art teachers and the techniques you were taught helped shape you as an artist. I can remember that as a kid I really enjoyed my outside of school art classes, where I actually got taught all kind of techniques and materials. Later on my first few years at middle school (age 11-14) I had a very strict teacher who taught me a lot and I actually started to think about being an artist as a career. But then I changed schools and my new teacher was a very traditional oil painter and pastel portrait artist who absolutely hated my ink works. He would actually fail my works based on the style or materials even when we were given the choice what we wanted to work with. My teenage me thought this meant that I was bad at art, but now I can see that my teacher just graded me on his own personal opinions about what art is supposed to look like. Also we barely did any drawing, most of our classes were 3D art which I didn't like at all. Around that time I stopped doing art, thinking there was no career in my drawing interests. I'm glad I picked up art again about a year ago, but I sometimes wonder if a different art teacher that wouldn't have demotivated me that much would have made a difference
What you described as helpful is what we learn here too (luckily): the foundation, the computer work (adobe illustrator) , contour drawings, blind, drawing from life, ropes, graphic design
I am going through the same thing in highschool in parts: absence and being cold or mean just because I felt like I didn't fit in or deserved anything :( Teachers simply try to help often, and I was moody for no reasons. Many don't take the classes very seriously either over here. They want to do as they please, directly going into detail ... and neglecting the techniques or advices. I do have my temper but some are also quite lazy and childlike as well.
6:19 great chart for beginners! Immersion in these elements of art are soo important. Thanks. When that popped up, I was taken back to my art class in HS. You had some amazing teachers and are lucky to have had such inspiration at a young age. Some teachers just don't get it either, they are just there to get through their day. It's great when the gems can see through our teenage moodiness :) Now at this age, we all have each other :)
great story! i remember very vividly certain art teachers who gave me certain types of advice as well. good and bad. I'm in school to become an art teacher actually and I really hope to touch some students in the same way you and I were! ....when i'm old and can no longer feed myself with my art, lol.
My experience was very similar. Best thing is you had art mandatory until 8-9 grade only which was the same case with me. Albeit, my teachers were just nothing more than normal teachers. We were told to paint a color wheel at the start of the drawing book but were never taught the importance of it, how to mix colours, complimentary, homogeneous colours nothing at all.
I remember art class fondly. It was my favorite class. But we only had it in elementary school. Once we reached middle school (grades 6-8), we had to choose an elective and I chose music. I’m not even sure if art was an option. I don’t regret choosing music but I wish I also took art.
It is so nice how your teachers and classmates all helped you grow as an artist though love! Yeah, I started taking art seriously out of spite- someone told me my art was bad and she started erasing it without my permission in order to fix it. About half the class joined in, in fact and I just wanted to prove them wrong. Also a friend who was into art. Yeah, so our artist origin stories couldn't be more different haha
I never really learnt anything in art class in school. At most, i consulted the teacher for some ideas for exams, and the rest was thru self experiment. Nice thing bout the class was that alot of students stayed back till late on alot of days trying to complete their artwork for the exam. Being surrounded by passionate people(to get good grades at least) pushed me to do better and improve. Learnt more about "art" after moving on to tertiary school enrolling in course not about "art" =/
This was really cool. Thanks for sharing. Love your sketches. You stories sounded very familiar. I stood out as well in art class. I grew up in the french community in Toronto and often got picked for special workshops at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Despite my skills I was encouraged to get a "Real Job". Which I did becoming a nurse. I'm now retired and doing art daily. I don't regret my choices but always wonder what could have been. My grade 9 art teacher (amazing) always gave me 9.5 out of 10. When I asked her why not 10 she said if she gave me 10 I would be teaching the class. I think there was a compliment in there.
Emma, I grew up in Toronto, too. I’m 65 now. In Grade 13, at least half of the art class students were taking art to get an easy credit. We were able to get “extra credit” with additional assignments, which I did. So, I ended up finishing the last term with 100%😁.
@@sabineleppanenart3014 So cool. Are you doing art now? I moved to Nova Scotia 20 years ago when I retired. I've learned a lot about art through UA-cam and paint daily now. Hope you're well.
@@BabySquirrelBeading I took a lo-o-o-ong break after high school and started doing art again in Oct 2016, not every day but I usually have something going. I have an instagram account under sabineleppanen_art, where I post pictures.
Had art classes in seventh and eighth grades. Eighth was the best. After that it was mostly self taught on a haphazard basis. I wish I could get my human sketching abilities back, especially heads and faces. Heads/faces are not what I want so I keep trying and I keep getting disappointed. Your head sketches are really good. I know you have practiced for years because it shows. Landscapes and urban sketches seem to be my forte. I wish I had taken more art in high school and college.
I kinda wish my college instructors had been more strict. For the most part, they were of the "it's self expression, anything goes" mentality. I felt unprepared for the intense competition of the illustration and comic industry :/ But I got some good art skills and techniques so no real regrets!
I’m left handed but it’s great seeing someone hold pencils like I do lol. My teachers hated how I held my pencil! Even tried to get me to write with my right hand haha
im currently in 8th grade and I have a milder version of your 12th grade teacher; no one takes her seriously, and while im glad i won't be stuck with her for high school and enjoy the basically free period, im still disappointed. but it's all good, the internet works almost as well for gaining that Art Knowledge
Please do more of this if you have time~~~ so inspirational to watch you draw!!! Is your paper smooth? How can you capture so many details while drawing this small?! OwO
I signed up for an art class in fourth grade and they were having me shade spheres and things like that and I was so frustrated because I knew I was more advance than that. I didn’t take an art class again until high school and my teacher knew some of us were gifted so he would challenge us. I learned so much and I’m thankful for him actually even though he was a weirdo 😂
ive always been the art kid...still am...but it's kinda the only way im able to make friends in school lol. But rn, in my new school, i can't find any other 'art kids' ...kinda feel lonely
I really feel the same. During years in school i was the one in my class with the best drawing skills (i was even doing my elder brother art assigments). We always had the same teacher and at some point all got boring and crafty :/. However in high I hadn't any kind of art class because at least in Spain when i was teenager you had to go to a special high school for it ;_;. At the end i started studing ancient History in University but i expended most of my classes painting the tables XD so i changed to Art degree after two years XDDD. And here I am trying to do my path watching your videos and feeling encourage :D
The school system pretends the student to specialize pretty early their study paths. So if you wanted art classes you needed to go to a High School specialized in arts and it could happen your town or city didn't have one (my case, closer high was 200km away).
Okay I had TWO art teachers in my life time. One from elementary, and one from middle school to highschool, since he kinda went with my class. The first one, Ill call... Mrs. M, she's your typical cranky old lady. Skinny, white hair, and could easily have been mistaken for a smoker. She was also pretty cruel in a sense, I don't think she ever liked me. In fact the majority of our 5th grade portfolio... mine was "I will not talk" (I was the silent child fearful of everyone.) or things like "I will not sharpen my pencil" weird things like that. She had a pet peeve of sharpening pencils calling it wasteful and they should be used down to the wood. She also didn't like cartoony styles, or overly saturated pictures. I was still learning at the time and she was often frustrated that I couldn't copy the reference exactly, while her favorite could. Mind you, the kid she used as the class example, was always called up and she'd loudly announce how we should take after him. I had nothing against the kid, although it always sucked I was called next and told I should try harder, and stop wasting her supplies. You could tell who she liked and thought had potential because she'd sit them at another table together, allowed them "talking time" as well as premium and new supplies. I now look back at her grading rubrics as an adult and yeah, my drawings suck for being 10 but I could tell she really didn't try to grade by the rubric if her advice was "try harder" in red letters. So that was my first experience with an art teacher. My second art teacher I would have until I graduated, he was chill... Had no art degree.. or actually any education in art, but he was serious about helping those who wanted to learn, so he learned with us and taught us the basics. I can really say he ego boosted me and made me feel good about going at my own pace. Mr. G was lit and always played weird music while we worked. Alot of his younger students didn't like him though since he preferred silence while we painted or work. I was okay with it though, and he never graded too harshly, and still managed to leave constructive notes. Thanks to him I had a portfolio ready for art school. (I didnt get in but still felt nice to try.)
i don´t remember my teachers from first level of elementary school (grades 1-4), because it was probbably the class teacher and she just gave us a theme and supplies, not giving any advices. At second level (grades 5-7,9), it was a bit different. We started receiving marks for art and the teacher gave advices here and there. She even tried to actually teach us something (i remember one still-life at 7th grade). But then she got pregnant and we didn´t have art class at 8th grade. Last year of elementary school was great. We got new teacher, that actually studied art. My classmates didn´t like her, because she was taking art seriously. She made us really study art, learning about the styles, artists and history at one lesson, and making us draw something in that style next one (okay, starting with surrealism wasn´t the greatest idea). She was critisizing what we were doing and made us tell why we drew what we drew. She even tried to help me get to art high school (i ended the tests at 2nd place, but chose other school). And now, studying at 1st grade at high school, we don´t even have art class (nor english, german, history, geography,..). I really hope we will have it in the second grade along with the other classes. But at least, my other teachers finally gave up and let me draw on their lessons (they finally realised that i pay attention when i´m drawing)
because i´m on bilingual high school, and that means i have 4 lessons of italy daily, and 3 other lessons (can be slovak, math, sience, physics, biology, sport and religion). We will have other classes in next 4 grades, but most of them will be teached in italy. Having all clasic classes would be too much to learn at once
yes and no. First year students concentrate to learn the language and other subjects are there just to not forget them. And other 4 years, everything except PE and other languages is in the main language. At least my school work like this, but maybe bilinguals that teach language that is normally in schools (like english and german here) simply starts teaching everything
11:00 didn't even have to stylize that portrait photo of that girl with ginger hair and the black rose cos it was already in Chris'' her style almost XD
Hi Chris! I am an art teacher myself now and I remember the one art teacher I had who totally inspired me to be better in art. I do not really remember my other teachers to be honest. But at Uni I did appreciate each and every lecturer I had for different skills we were learning- even though it was independent learning, their tips and approach were key to me being able to progress. As an art teacher now, I knew I wanted to deliver what I never had at school. I hope I am doing a good job. On my channel here on youtube I do not really showcase my art as I started youtube as a crafter but slowly I want to bring more fine-art content. I have to tell you that you have inspired me to go back to sketching and make art- I spend so much time lesson planning that I hardly draw or paint anymore . Somehow watching your videos and listening to you has inspired me greatly and wanted to say thank you. You are doing a great job. Keep it up! So excited to catch up on all your videos and to see your upcoming one . X
Seeing as this video has been posted months ago I won't be hopeful of any replies but I just wanna ask what's that thing you use to blend/smudge the pencils to make that shadow effect? I've only recently got myself to learn more about art after doubting myself all of these years.
Idk if this is weird but you hold your pencil exactly like I do 😂 people have always made me feel weird due to the fact that when I hold my pencil I put my thumb under my index finger 😭
10:30 ha... ha... unfortunately i draw better than my art teacher... my art teacher draws stick men... not kidding.. i'm fully relying on youtube and instagram to learn art😂
I barely had one good art teacher in my education. In high school I had one that was so terrible and demotivating that he told me not to go to art school because you don't want to be a starving artist.
If I think how nobody told me about all the possible art career that actually exist, I feel so mad. Probably I wouldn't have gave up on art after one disappointing year at Fine Arts Academy if I realized that there were other options rather than being a fine art painter..
Ahhh I feel so mad. But it was also my fault, I gave up too soon. Now I'm 30 and I'm starting again, teaching my self, restoring my dream to be an artist and hoping to be one day a full time illustrator.
Anyway, I loved this video very much, thank you for sharing and inspiring us! Your sketches are amazing. Cheers :)
i hear so many of these horror stories and I just can't wrap my head around how an art teacher could say that to a student >< unless it was some super harsh "tough love" method/reverse psychology haha. Thanks so much for watching and best of luck on your journey!
Thank you Chris!
Wow!I clicked on your channel and your art is really good, you should definitely keep pursuing art to fulfill your illustrating dream job!
I never forget the comment my art teacher wrote on my assignment: "Ruler is not allowed" and minus my grades.BUT the thing is I DIDN'T USE RULER!!
it's a common rule for art school...
Jon Snow but she didn’t use a ruler..
When I had art in elementary and junior it was always about craftsy sort of "do whatever you want" classes. We never learned anything, no fundamentals which was awful since I was contemplating taking art seriously. Even in HS my first year, it was "do whatever you want" so without putting in much effort I got high scores. So I didn't continue taking art classes but I wish I did because it turns out the next year they had an actual art teacher who taught the fundamentals and was a harsh grader. I could've learned a lot
Please do more videos like this where you doodle real quick with the reference so we can practice with you😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I would love to see teaching videos! You seem to have such good knowledge of technique, terminology, color theory, etc that I would love to see you teaching through a painting, or how you draw these face sketches, maybe one painting in several techniques/mediums to teach the differences... There's just so many things I'd love to learn from you!
Watching this masterpiece after 3 years. Thank you UA-cam!
Aaah this reminds me of my two favorite art teachers. Mr. François and Mr. Ian. They were very funny while being strict during class. They taught us academic perspective, watercolors, realism, anatomy, crafting a tiny room with recycled objects... gouache... the list goes on! I am not afraid to say that I was one of their favorite students along with some of my friends. Probably because of our attitude and how we took art seriously compared to the other students taking the art option only to talk and fool around. They believed so much in me and my talent that I don't think I would be where I am today without them. Anyway, it's 3 am, why am I being nostalgic now? XD
Value and skill is a pretty great combo nation and that’s what your art is and that’s why it’s epic
I never had an art teacher besides in elementary, curse being in a small town! I'm in college now, training to be an art teacher, and classes with real teachers at first made me feel bad because of how behind I was. Over time though, they helped me improve far faster than I could have on my own!
When I saw the title I knew the had to be good, and I was right! Honestly I’m so excited right now that I still need to finish watching the video but wanted to comment first. I had been to the United States when I was very little and lived here for a couple years but when I was 6 is when we permanently moved. I recall that the only reason I was willing to give up family and move was to see snow. Though we landed in Washington the air gave me a wonderland feeling and at school it literally felt like hogwarts ( it was super fun!) in India our teachers were never this caring and only cared about grades but here, my teachers loved me and always had chats about my art and my work… they encouraged me every single day which is a feeling you will only understand if you immigrated. Nowadays, my 6 year old sister’s teachers aren’t as caring as mine were and there is a lot more competition even in middle school art. We moved to Texas an year back and I was so attached to Washington that I cried fir hours… but of course I’ve come to find good things in Texas, but I will always have an attachment to my first home in the U.S 💖 your art is as always amazing and the stories are fantastic!
I love your head studies! I would enjoy seeing you do a formal figure drawing or two in the same manner.
your art is lif to me and from listening, you had a great time making the video keep up we love you.
thanks for watching and listening! :)
Art teacher discussions always get me so on edge..when I was young it was great but high school I stopped caring about school as much and was very moody but I did enjoy my art classes but my teachers always seemed to have favorites and focused all their effort on them. Even had times where they would compare you to these kids which for a long time really has held me down making me think I'm not good. They don't realize they can have a huge impact.
I had an amazing art teacher in high school. She was supper supportive of eveyeryone and if you where willing to learn she would be super nice. She let us push the boundaries and experiment. Really I couldn't have asked for a better teacher
I was really luck to have two really great art teachers in middle and highschool who exposed us to all different kinds of mediums and elements in art history. I did oil painting in highschool, our art 4 class was 3D art which i was initially annoyed about but now I'm grateful for the experience with architecture, and wire sculpture, quilting/sewing, we even got to do installations around the school! In college I was surprised to hear from many of my art friends that they did almost nothing in art class highschool, or the teachers let them do what they wanted.
wow i wish i was introduced to oil painting that early! (i can understand why it's not though XD)
there was this horrifying barrel that we dumped all of the turp and linseed oil in just chilling in the room. i still don't know what he did with it
I love every single one of these little drawings ♡
The most memorable and best teacher I have ever had was for grade 12 textiles. I had messed up my academics pretty bad as all of my high school years were spent heavily struggling with my mental health with the illusion of me “responsibly” doing my schooling online. For grade 12 I went back to public school to enter their program which specifically helps you regain missing credits so you’re still able to get your diploma and such. It’s a bit daunting to have four years of schooling to complete in all but a year, but I sure tried. Textiles was the only class outside of the program I was allowed to take and I didn’t expect much from it. There was so much weight I had put on myself to properly fix all the self sabotage I had done, I pretty much already was letting myself give up. My textiles teacher, god how I’m so grateful I had her in my life during that time, she was the most precious thing I’ve ever met, and somehow she had the magic to get you to keep trying. Even though I didn’t talk much in her class, she could tell when things weren’t the best for me. Each time she’d just sit next to me and chat about the most random things or rave about the kookiness of my apparel. She knew I had a lot on my plate and she basically told me, even if I didn’t turn in a single assignment, this class can just simply be a place for me to take a break from it all. I did, at least, turn in a few assignments. She pretty much saw something in my work that I didn’t. She adored the way I saw things and my way of going about it with medium, she constantly had a smile on her face whenever she saw anything I worked on. I was by no means the best artist in the class, I had pretty low confidence in all my art of any form, but for some reason she always raved about what I did. Maybe it was just simple encouragement, maybe there really was something there idk. But she always encouraged me to explore any and every idea I had, and I’m very grateful for that. On top of just creating a joyous and creative atmosphere you thrived to be around, she always was there to talk to. This is sad, but there were times that just because she cared and always offered to listen, I’d just kinda crumble right then and there when she’d say anything to me. No matter how bad of a state I was in, she always continued to encourage me and be proud of the fact I was even trying. She’s literally the reason I haven’t given up, and the reason I fell back into my connection with drawing. And probably the reason I like yellow so much now tbh. All in all, she did so much more for me than she probably know, and I’m really glad that was the only teacher led class they let me take. Definitely wouldn’t have made it this far without her morning class.
The videos just keep getting better and better!!!
It is interesting to hear how your art teachers and the techniques you were taught helped shape you as an artist. I can remember that as a kid I really enjoyed my outside of school art classes, where I actually got taught all kind of techniques and materials. Later on my first few years at middle school (age 11-14) I had a very strict teacher who taught me a lot and I actually started to think about being an artist as a career.
But then I changed schools and my new teacher was a very traditional oil painter and pastel portrait artist who absolutely hated my ink works. He would actually fail my works based on the style or materials even when we were given the choice what we wanted to work with. My teenage me thought this meant that I was bad at art, but now I can see that my teacher just graded me on his own personal opinions about what art is supposed to look like.
Also we barely did any drawing, most of our classes were 3D art which I didn't like at all. Around that time I stopped doing art, thinking there was no career in my drawing interests.
I'm glad I picked up art again about a year ago, but I sometimes wonder if a different art teacher that wouldn't have demotivated me that much would have made a difference
Hi! I’m still in high school and just hearing this... it feels like you’re telling my life’s story minus the good teachers
What you described as helpful is what we learn here too (luckily): the foundation, the computer work (adobe illustrator) , contour drawings, blind, drawing from life, ropes, graphic design
I am going through the same thing in highschool in parts: absence and being cold or mean just because I felt like I didn't fit in or deserved anything :( Teachers simply try to help often, and I was moody for no reasons. Many don't take the classes very seriously either over here. They want to do as they please, directly going into detail ... and neglecting the techniques or advices. I do have my temper but some are also quite lazy and childlike as well.
6:19 great chart for beginners! Immersion in these elements of art are soo important. Thanks. When that popped up, I was taken back to my art class in HS. You had some amazing teachers and are lucky to have had such inspiration at a young age. Some teachers just don't get it either, they are just there to get through their day. It's great when the gems can see through our teenage moodiness :) Now at this age, we all have each other :)
I remember in sixth grade one of my art teachers wrote "no tracing allowed" because he thought I traced the image we were supposed to replicate
oh boy XD
It happened to me too but my friend told me that instead of my teacher lol
GIRL THAT DRAWING WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL?! YOURE DAMN AMAZING
Wow great video
great story! i remember very vividly certain art teachers who gave me certain types of advice as well. good and bad. I'm in school to become an art teacher actually and I really hope to touch some students in the same way you and I were! ....when i'm old and can no longer feed myself with my art, lol.
My experience was very similar. Best thing is you had art mandatory until 8-9 grade only which was the same case with me. Albeit, my teachers were just nothing more than normal teachers. We were told to paint a color wheel at the start of the drawing book but were never taught the importance of it, how to mix colours, complimentary, homogeneous colours nothing at all.
I remember art class fondly. It was my favorite class. But we only had it in elementary school. Once we reached middle school (grades 6-8), we had to choose an elective and I chose music. I’m not even sure if art was an option.
I don’t regret choosing music but I wish I also took art.
It is so nice how your teachers and classmates all helped you grow as an artist though love! Yeah, I started taking art seriously out of spite- someone told me my art was bad and she started erasing it without my permission in order to fix it. About half the class joined in, in fact and I just wanted to prove them wrong. Also a friend who was into art. Yeah, so our artist origin stories couldn't be more different haha
I never really learnt anything in art class in school. At most, i consulted the teacher for some ideas for exams, and the rest was thru self experiment. Nice thing bout the class was that alot of students stayed back till late on alot of days trying to complete their artwork for the exam. Being surrounded by passionate people(to get good grades at least) pushed me to do better and improve.
Learnt more about "art" after moving on to tertiary school enrolling in course not about "art" =/
since i live in the silicon valley there's tons of competition from the start itself
This was really cool. Thanks for sharing. Love your sketches. You stories sounded very familiar. I stood out as well in art class. I grew up in the french community in Toronto and often got picked for special workshops at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Despite my skills I was encouraged to get a "Real Job". Which I did becoming a nurse. I'm now retired and doing art daily. I don't regret my choices but always wonder what could have been. My grade 9 art teacher (amazing) always gave me 9.5 out of 10. When I asked her why not 10 she said if she gave me 10 I would be teaching the class. I think there was a compliment in there.
Emma, I grew up in Toronto, too. I’m 65 now. In Grade 13, at least half of the art class students were taking art to get an easy credit. We were able to get “extra credit” with additional assignments, which I did. So, I ended up finishing the last term with 100%😁.
@@sabineleppanenart3014 So cool. Are you doing art now? I moved to Nova Scotia 20 years ago when I retired. I've learned a lot about art through UA-cam and paint daily now. Hope you're well.
@@BabySquirrelBeading I took a lo-o-o-ong break after high school and started doing art again in Oct 2016, not every day but I usually have something going. I have an instagram account under sabineleppanen_art, where I post pictures.
Had art classes in seventh and eighth grades. Eighth was the best. After that it was mostly self taught on a haphazard basis. I wish I could get my human sketching abilities back, especially heads and faces. Heads/faces are not what I want so I keep trying and I keep getting disappointed. Your head sketches are really good. I know you have practiced for years because it shows. Landscapes and urban sketches seem to be my forte. I wish I had taken more art in high school and college.
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I kinda wish my college instructors had been more strict. For the most part, they were of the "it's self expression, anything goes" mentality. I felt unprepared for the intense competition of the illustration and comic industry :/ But I got some good art skills and techniques so no real regrets!
Make more portrait videos, they are so cool!
I’m left handed but it’s great seeing someone hold pencils like I do lol. My teachers hated how I held my pencil! Even tried to get me to write with my right hand haha
im currently in 8th grade and I have a milder version of your 12th grade teacher; no one takes her seriously, and while im glad i won't be stuck with her for high school and enjoy the basically free period, im still disappointed. but it's all good, the internet works almost as well for gaining that Art Knowledge
Con you do a tutorial of hair drawing
Leafmon! He's adorable.
looked up leafmon, not it, so did some digging, and it was actually bubbmon! :D close though hehe
How do you prevent smudges on your pencil drawings?
just try and be careful XD and move from left to right and down (since i'm right-handed), but some smudging is inevitable ^^;;
Please do more of this if you have time~~~ so inspirational to watch you draw!!! Is your paper smooth? How can you capture so many details while drawing this small?! OwO
I signed up for an art class in fourth grade and they were having me shade spheres and things like that and I was so frustrated because I knew I was more advance than that. I didn’t take an art class again until high school and my teacher knew some of us were gifted so he would challenge us. I learned so much and I’m thankful for him actually even though he was a weirdo 😂
Thank you for inspiring me! : )
ive always been the art kid...still am...but it's kinda the only way im able to make friends in school lol. But rn, in my new school, i can't find any other 'art kids' ...kinda feel lonely
I really feel the same. During years in school i was the one in my class with the best drawing skills (i was even doing my elder brother art assigments). We always had the same teacher and at some point all got boring and crafty :/. However in high I hadn't any kind of art class because at least in Spain when i was teenager you had to go to a special high school for it ;_;.
At the end i started studing ancient History in University but i expended most of my classes painting the tables XD so i changed to Art degree after two years XDDD. And here I am trying to do my path watching your videos and feeling encourage :D
so interesting to hear that in some other countries' high school systems, there are no art courses o_o!
The school system pretends the student to specialize pretty early their study paths. So if you wanted art classes you needed to go to a High School specialized in arts and it could happen your town or city didn't have one (my case, closer high was 200km away).
I am so late, but as always I loved this!
thank you Jenni! :)
Okay I had TWO art teachers in my life time. One from elementary, and one from middle school to highschool, since he kinda went with my class.
The first one, Ill call... Mrs. M, she's your typical cranky old lady. Skinny, white hair, and could easily have been mistaken for a smoker. She was also pretty cruel in a sense, I don't think she ever liked me. In fact the majority of our 5th grade portfolio... mine was "I will not talk" (I was the silent child fearful of everyone.) or things like "I will not sharpen my pencil" weird things like that. She had a pet peeve of sharpening pencils calling it wasteful and they should be used down to the wood.
She also didn't like cartoony styles, or overly saturated pictures. I was still learning at the time and she was often frustrated that I couldn't copy the reference exactly, while her favorite could. Mind you, the kid she used as the class example, was always called up and she'd loudly announce how we should take after him. I had nothing against the kid, although it always sucked I was called next and told I should try harder, and stop wasting her supplies. You could tell who she liked and thought had potential because she'd sit them at another table together, allowed them "talking time" as well as premium and new supplies. I now look back at her grading rubrics as an adult and yeah, my drawings suck for being 10 but I could tell she really didn't try to grade by the rubric if her advice was "try harder" in red letters. So that was my first experience with an art teacher.
My second art teacher I would have until I graduated, he was chill... Had no art degree.. or actually any education in art, but he was serious about helping those who wanted to learn, so he learned with us and taught us the basics. I can really say he ego boosted me and made me feel good about going at my own pace. Mr. G was lit and always played weird music while we worked. Alot of his younger students didn't like him though since he preferred silence while we painted or work. I was okay with it though, and he never graded too harshly, and still managed to leave constructive notes. Thanks to him I had a portfolio ready for art school. (I didnt get in but still felt nice to try.)
i don´t remember my teachers from first level of elementary school (grades 1-4), because it was probbably the class teacher and she just gave us a theme and supplies, not giving any advices.
At second level (grades 5-7,9), it was a bit different. We started receiving marks for art and the teacher gave advices here and there. She even tried to actually teach us something (i remember one still-life at 7th grade). But then she got pregnant and we didn´t have art class at 8th grade.
Last year of elementary school was great. We got new teacher, that actually studied art. My classmates didn´t like her, because she was taking art seriously. She made us really study art, learning about the styles, artists and history at one lesson, and making us draw something in that style next one (okay, starting with surrealism wasn´t the greatest idea). She was critisizing what we were doing and made us tell why we drew what we drew. She even tried to help me get to art high school (i ended the tests at 2nd place, but chose other school).
And now, studying at 1st grade at high school, we don´t even have art class (nor english, german, history, geography,..). I really hope we will have it in the second grade along with the other classes.
But at least, my other teachers finally gave up and let me draw on their lessons (they finally realised that i pay attention when i´m drawing)
Now I'm curious...what do you mean you are in HS and have no Geopraphy or history or languages?! O_ö
because i´m on bilingual high school, and that means i have 4 lessons of italy daily, and 3 other lessons (can be slovak, math, sience, physics, biology, sport and religion). We will have other classes in next 4 grades, but most of them will be teached in italy. Having all clasic classes would be too much to learn at once
Oh...I thought in bilingual schools you have all the subjects but simply in another language.
yes and no. First year students concentrate to learn the language and other subjects are there just to not forget them. And other 4 years, everything except PE and other languages is in the main language. At least my school work like this, but maybe bilinguals that teach language that is normally in schools (like english and german here) simply starts teaching everything
Man, other countries' school systems are SO different from what I'm familiar with! XD
Through elementary middle and high school I think the last time art was mandatory was in 6th grade for me
Green blob with a yellow binky digimon? Sounds like Pabumon. I'm glad I'm not the only one QvQ
I love your art so much
11:00 didn't even have to stylize that portrait photo of that girl with ginger hair and the black rose cos it was already in Chris'' her style almost XD
Hi Chris! I am an art teacher myself now and I remember the one art teacher I had who totally inspired me to be better in art. I do not really remember my other teachers to be honest. But at Uni I did appreciate each and every lecturer I had for different skills we were learning- even though it was independent learning, their tips and approach were key to me being able to progress.
As an art teacher now, I knew I wanted to deliver what I never had at school. I hope I am doing a good job. On my channel here on youtube I do not really showcase my art as I started youtube as a crafter but slowly I want to bring more fine-art content.
I have to tell you that you have inspired me to go back to sketching and make art- I spend so much time lesson planning that I hardly draw or paint anymore . Somehow watching your videos and listening to you has inspired me greatly and wanted to say thank you. You are doing a great job. Keep it up! So excited to catch up on all your videos and to see your upcoming one . X
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Wow..your teachers are pretty young though..btw she looks like lisa from blackpink at 4:19
Seeing as this video has been posted months ago I won't be hopeful of any replies but I just wanna ask what's that thing you use to blend/smudge the pencils to make that shadow effect?
I've only recently got myself to learn more about art after doubting myself all of these years.
They're paper blending stumps.
*Chuckles*
I'm in danger of being a cartoon artist
This is a meme I used from dank doodle memes
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Idk if this is weird but you hold your pencil exactly like I do 😂 people have always made me feel weird due to the fact that when I hold my pencil I put my thumb under my index finger 😭
haha i know i hold my pencil weirdly >< i just don't know how to hold it any other way!
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I grew up in the islands and they are pretty harsh on kids too...it just seemed like there was no moral support...its worst in high school...
where do you mean when you say "the islands"? :)
how to find the model picture ？thanks
10:30 ha... ha... unfortunately i draw better than my art teacher... my art teacher draws stick men... not kidding.. i'm fully relying on youtube and instagram to learn art😂
unfortunately here art classes at schools aren't mandatory so schools can choose not to invest in it, like in my case
WHO THE HECK DISLIKED THIS I WANT ANSWERS NOW OR ELSE I’M GETTING THE BROOM-
haha XD when there are some likes, there are bound to be some dislikes to balance it out.. !