If you create a composition using photos as a reference and it creates a new visual experience and doesn't replicate someone else's work that's not a problem.
Thank you sooo much for this video my stress levels have gone down so much xxx Now i have just a repeating reminder on my phone with just the word Art. So i just do something artful that day, look at artists, read a bit, doodle basically anything i feel like without the stressful time blocking other artists on youtube say you must have 😊
Many of these myths sounds like artists or even art professors that project their industrious personality and are less open to creative technical pursuits. Graduated from my BFA in May 2023 and was job hunting since. Still looking. Pursuing my MFA in the summer of 2024. I didn't draw a dang thing since I graduated from my BFA.
6:43 am If an individual wants to develop their skills, the more practice, the better. But, you don't have to do it every day to do that It depends on what you're developing. I don't believe putting restrictions on learning how to be creative is realistic and makes sense. I think most of the time, priorities are established based on the art instructors' art preference and not on the artist.
I laughed when you brought up the idea that using reference photos is cheating, because I encounter this all the time with the elementary-aged children I work with. As much as I try showing them how you can take parts of reference photos to help with your own work and still make something original, they still seem to see it as copying and cheating!
I taught foreign language. Progress IS mesures in number of hours & regularity of use. As a beginner artist, I apply same rule: below 40-60 hours, no progress to be expected. Not losing sight matters too. Not every day necessary but no "long holidays" off or nearly everything is lost. Practice: one "be accurate", one "whatever". One day, proportions, next day tonal values, next, whatever you want...
In middle school I painted a mountain landscape for my grandma. she was grateful but she said something like" Well,I hope you looked at a photograph and NOT another painting as reference!! Like ,right out of the gate as an artist I was suspect??! Did I cheat?? It's really kind of sad.
When it comes to cheating- as a (also) musician- starting with playing other people's music- IS the way to get better... as long as the composer is acknowledged. So- if i emitate others- as long as i dont claim the art as my original is learning tool. Using tracing line to strengthen my eye-hand skill is the same as playing mozart to get better with scales without getting bored... Looking at others and using "their" method is using their wisdom and techniqud they got along their journey- wheather it was 400 yrs ago or 5yrs... learning to write also starts with tracing lines- to know to produce the same shapes. Its just like a 3rd wheel for a chilids byke- you dont need it after you master the craft...- same way- i could call digital computerized oainting as cheating- the computer did 2/3 of the work no splashes no erasing marks etc.... but its normal for us. And thats ok...😊
Cheating is plagiarism, using tools isn't. I've ran into this all the time myself. I think people try to shame us artists because of jealousy in some cases, pure ignorance in others. Nothing is ever truly black and white.
"the role of the Artist is to reveal mystic truths" Bruce Nauman... I tell students skill and talent is an unfair advantage... do what you gotta do to achieve your desired result... intentions are meaningless... the thing is the thing...
I think we subconsciously try to make an interest or a talent into something like religion . Like you have to prove your dedication to be worthy of success. Let that go! We don't need to prove anything!!!
I’m glad at least one person seemed to know what I was talking about. Thank you. We even have terms like “ religious dedication “ and religiously. I think subconsciously we expect this of ourselves.
Drawing everyday should not be about a challenge, but rather forming a habit. Success is achieved in any human activity through formation of habits and if you want to get better at drawing you must form that habit first and foremost. If you're drawing once a month for 5 hours you're not improving or forming a habit.
“When Clara mentions that she doesn’t want to do her best every single day.” What exactly is doing our best Deliberately doing hard things or put ourselves through unnecessary suffering just to prove ourselves to ourselves. Even though it may not profit a much of fruit. (That sounds very catholic monkish btw) Or is it’ working smarter and not necessarily harder Or is it just doing the right thing. But granted each of us moral compass is a little different And for some of us “the right thing “ may be putting ourselves through useless suffering. And for others it’s something lighter
for me it's really challenging myself, doing something that doesn't come easily to me! Depends on the artist, everyone has a different version of it. -Prof Lieu
Hi there got a question about cheating, as a graphic designer i often work against time, and sometimes some works need certain illustrations; for example stitching illustrations. While I don' copy and paste the illustration (often downloads) as a whole, I take parts of it or erase parts of it to make fit with other elements, does this implies cheating?
Copyright is definitely an issue, and every case is different. We have streams on copyright in this playlist: ruclips.net/video/hawLAMQW-5Q/видео.html -Prof Lieu
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If you create a composition using photos as a reference and it creates a new visual experience and doesn't replicate someone else's work that's not a problem.
Thank you sooo much for this video my stress levels have gone down so much xxx Now i have just a repeating reminder on my phone with just the word Art. So i just do something artful that day, look at artists, read a bit, doodle basically anything i feel like without the stressful time blocking other artists on youtube say you must have 😊
I love this entire concept!!! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Drawing from memory. 😅 Right!
Many of these myths sounds like artists or even art professors that project their industrious personality and are less open to creative technical pursuits.
Graduated from my BFA in May 2023 and was job hunting since. Still looking. Pursuing my MFA in the summer of 2024. I didn't draw a dang thing since I graduated from my BFA.
6:43 am
If an individual wants to develop their skills, the more practice, the better. But, you don't have to do it every day to do that
It depends on what you're developing. I don't believe putting restrictions on learning how to be creative is realistic and makes sense. I think most of the time, priorities are established based on the art instructors' art preference and not on the artist.
Yes, if I had to draw daily I would be soooo stressed out! -Prof Lieu
I laughed when you brought up the idea that using reference photos is cheating, because I encounter this all the time with the elementary-aged children I work with. As much as I try showing them how you can take parts of reference photos to help with your own work and still make something original, they still seem to see it as copying and cheating!
I taught foreign language. Progress IS mesures in number of hours & regularity of use. As a beginner artist, I apply same rule: below 40-60 hours, no progress to be expected. Not losing sight matters too. Not every day necessary but no "long holidays" off or nearly everything is lost. Practice: one "be accurate", one "whatever". One day, proportions, next day tonal values, next, whatever you want...
In middle school I painted a mountain landscape for my grandma. she was grateful but she said something like" Well,I hope you looked at a photograph and NOT another painting as reference!! Like ,right out of the gate as an artist I was suspect??!
Did I cheat?? It's really kind of sad.
When it comes to cheating- as a (also) musician- starting with playing other people's music- IS the way to get better... as long as the composer is acknowledged. So- if i emitate others- as long as i dont claim the art as my original is learning tool. Using tracing line to strengthen my eye-hand skill is the same as playing mozart to get better with scales without getting bored...
Looking at others and using "their" method is using their wisdom and techniqud they got along their journey- wheather it was 400 yrs ago or 5yrs... learning to write also starts with tracing lines- to know to produce the same shapes. Its just like a 3rd wheel for a chilids byke- you dont need it after you master the craft...- same way- i could call digital computerized oainting as cheating- the computer did 2/3 of the work no splashes no erasing marks etc.... but its normal for us. And thats ok...😊
yes, I was a classical musician for many years, and that's a big part of studying! -Prof Lieu
Cheating is plagiarism, using tools isn't. I've ran into this all the time myself. I think people try to shame us artists because of jealousy in some cases, pure ignorance in others. Nothing is ever truly black and white.
Yes-- there's always nuance in conversations like this! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
"the role of the Artist is to reveal mystic truths" Bruce Nauman... I tell students skill and talent is an unfair advantage... do what you gotta do to achieve your desired result... intentions are meaningless... the thing is the thing...
I think we subconsciously try to make an interest or a talent into something like religion . Like you have to prove your dedication to be worthy of success. Let that go! We don't need to prove anything!!!
I’m glad at least one person seemed to know what I was talking about. Thank you. We even have terms like “ religious dedication “ and religiously. I think subconsciously we expect this of ourselves.
Drawing everyday should not be about a challenge, but rather forming a habit. Success is achieved in any human activity through formation of habits and if you want to get better at drawing you must form that habit first and foremost. If you're drawing once a month for 5 hours you're not improving or forming a habit.
“When Clara mentions that she doesn’t want to do her best every single day.”
What exactly is doing our best
Deliberately doing hard things or put ourselves through unnecessary suffering just to prove ourselves to ourselves. Even though it may not profit a much of fruit. (That sounds very catholic monkish btw)
Or is it’ working smarter and not necessarily harder
Or is it just doing the right thing. But granted each of us moral compass is a little different
And for some of us “the right thing “ may be putting ourselves through useless suffering. And for others it’s something lighter
for me it's really challenging myself, doing something that doesn't come easily to me! Depends on the artist, everyone has a different version of it. -Prof Lieu
very good ,i love your videos .thank you
Glad you like them! - Mia, Art Prof Staff
Hi there got a question about cheating, as a graphic designer i often work against time, and sometimes some works need certain illustrations; for example stitching illustrations. While I don' copy and paste the illustration (often downloads) as a whole, I take parts of it or erase parts of it to make fit with other elements, does this implies cheating?
Copyright is definitely an issue, and every case is different. We have streams on copyright in this playlist: ruclips.net/video/hawLAMQW-5Q/видео.html
-Prof Lieu
I love this discussion! Thanks, girl!