#Art school

[digitalnewberry]

Say you're an artist...

... but you have a day job, so you take an evening class at the Art Institute, but it's the early 1890s which is pre-indoor lighting technology, so you can't draw the human figure from live models. What would you do??

That's right -- you'd probably start a Sunday morning art class just down the street from the Newberry, and call it the Palette & Chisel Club. And now, 130ish years later, we're both still going strong -- they continue to teach art classes, we're digitizing their archives and adding handwritten items to Newberry Transcribe, our transcription crowdsourcing site. So please stop by and browse their first scrapbook (1895-1906) at our digital collections site, or transcribe it to create searchable text documenting drunken art student shenanigans Chicago's early art scene.

[cosmadd]

had to make a hypothetical google doodle about friendship day with the style of two different artists and i ended up making a bunch bcs i’m a try hard also it’s fun

[turtlesystem]

I GOT INTO MY DREAM SCHOOL WHILE READING A BAGGINSHIELD FANFIC HOLY FUXSIIKSJSNSJKS

[thekingofyolks]

2025.03.18

[foldingfittedsheets]

When I was a TA for the freshman art class in senior year my students really adored me. It was so sweet. I’d had classes that were more ambivalent toward me but these guys were all about me.

I loved working with that teacher too. He was the kind of crunchy art nerd whose own kid didn’t know what candy was, who loved bird watching and wearing tweed. We’d chat while they worked and it was just a three hour pleasure rather than work.

When the class switched from charcoal to gouache a devil medium, the evilest watercolor, the students struggled. We’d have in class painting where they’d spend the whole time trying to mix one color instead of just accepting something as good enough and trying to practice other skills.

So one day I showed up to my shift and announced, “I have stickers. If you get color down for the whole composition, you get a sticker.”

They wanted. The stickers. So bad. Students who had agonized before about keeping lines neat and perfect plowed ahead. The first student to call me over I tsked at. “Putting grey on everything doesn’t count,” I chided, “I asked for colors on each object.”

The classroom worked in furious joy, young adults who had seen my bird and cactus stickers and gone feral. The teacher was flabbergasted. “Why do they want stickers? They could just buy stickers…”

I held up my water bottle and showed him a tiny 3D bubble sticker the program director had brought to my game teams space last week. “You never grow out of wanting to earn a sticker.”

By the end of class everyone had a sticker. There was more visible improvement in the work too, which surprised them since they’d been rushing. “Gouache looks terrible before it looks good. It’s okay to start messy and then refine.” The teacher had said the same thing but looking at their frantic sticker paintings they finally saw the truth of it.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[hollis-art]

contradictions in art school

[fashion-from-the-past]

Annika Caswell a student from the Wimbledon School of Art wardrobe department, dressed as Catherine Parr, next to her portrait attributed to Master John, c. 1545 in the National Portrait Gallery, London. * The students are recreating portraits dating from the Tudor period to the 19th century which have been inspiration for their lavish costumes . (Photo by Rebecca Naden - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)

[rufinoniku]

[sugas6thtooth]

This is at AUB (Arts University Bournemouth). Hold your educational institutions accountable for funding and platforming programs that support genocide. Boycott Stratasys. Flood their emails telling them to take accountability. Take action.

It is an unfortunate trend for colleges to silence the voices of their Pro Palestinian student body. We've seen it with Columbia University. Why aren't we holding these schools accountable?!?!

[mjhartwork]

acrylic painting of a hydrothermal vent with an abyssosaurus

[poppyflavour]

If you've ever wondered how it is to be in an art school

Like that

[sparklemaia]

I'm two full weeks into comic book school now (spoilers: it is E V E R Y T H I N G) but here's a lil journal comic about the move from west coast to east coast I drew a coupla weeks ago 🌕

if you wanna see art from life at Comic Book School (omg) plus early access to comics like this, you can sign up (it is free!) for my substack, which will send emails full of my drawings right to your very own inbox!! (there's also a $5/mo option to get Extra Secret Content but like 80% of my posts are free and publicly available because ily)

[mudqin]

for an school assignment i made an animation for a theoretical title screen of Pressure since im a little autistic about the game (less now than before but i was hyperfixated on it heavy for a couple weeks)

programs used: aftereffects (for the 3d modeling, tweening and finalized animation) and procreate (for creating texture assets and frame animation)

queued 10/20/24

[lilliangst]

here’s a series of illustrations i did for my junior thesis last semester, based on the book “This Is How You Lose the Time War” that I had made into a physical book 👉👈

i also made a character sheet — i understand that the book is kinda meant to be pretty abstract, so red and blue arent really supposed to have fixed forms. but i had to come up with something to draw for my style of illustration 🫠 i hope i did them justice somewhat

i didnt have time to finish the last illustration which was a shame bc i felt like it would have wrapped up the series perfectly, but heres the sketch of what i planned for it to look like