#artschool teacher

[alphazed]

Paul 'doomed by the narrative' Atreides

[icharchivist]

Your playtime of and love for FFVII transcends time, you heard it here first folks

Obviously 😎

though you jest but i still think a lot about the fact i replayed Crisis Core so many times on different PSP, knowing i usually take ~80 hours per playthrough, but unable to tell you how many times i played this game, so in fact my hours poured into ff7 are in fact transcending time completely because god knows how many hours i played that game. not me!!!! for sure!!!

[eelslippers]

In hindsight I do think it's really weird that my high school art teacher dedicated an entire art lesson to erotic flower imagery as a metaphor for human labia's but at least I can say it isn't as weird as the time my high school photography teacher made us photograph our feet

[psychojetcocktail]

urge to put fanart in my portofolio…. i mean i have basically nothing else so i might as well?

[mushed-kid]

im so fucking sick of school architecture SUCKS

[rayjeff]

the good artist must suffer, be hungry and be depressed. This is when they create 'good art'.

~ my artschool teacher

literally everyone else in the room:

[tizeline]

Was scrolling through your blog cuz it's been awhile since I checked up on tumblr, and then I found this:

And this:

And this is absolutely hilarious to me because wdym you've done years of art school and still can't explain how you draw things???? XD

wheeze

Honestly same, though. No art school for me but I've been drawing for two decades and I can't explain how I do it either. And yet I would also start infodumping about my process if given even half an opening haha

ig it's just an artist thing lol

NOT THE CALLOUT-! 😭😭😭😭

LMAOOO okay but lemme clarify, from my point of view there are at least two different ways of explaining my art process. There's the tutorial, where you explain the technique and instruct others on how to replicate that, you teach others how to draw, and that is what I'm bad at. The thing is I never had to teach others how to draw in artschool cuz ya know... that's the teacher's job, not mine!

The other way of explaining my art process is explaining specifically my thought process when creating the art, justifying what desicions I made and such. That was something I did all the time in art school so that the teachers would understand my art better, which is why that is what I actually know how to do.

So yeah, that first screenshot if from a post where someone asked for art tips which I am alas very bad at providing unless I'm helping a complete amatuer XD And the second screenshot is from a post where I was explaining my thought process while drawing one of my comics, it wasn't intended to be a tutorial (though if people learned anything from it then that's always a fun bonus)

I hope that clarifies it! ^^

[eraldkarma]

Okay so you're telling me that out of the main four green lanterns are veterans, one a social worker and the other is... a artschool drop out?

Okay but imagine this conversation between the four of them.

John:so what branches of the military did you two serve in?

Guy: wtf are you talking about?

John: what branch did you serve in? I was a marine, hal was air force what about you.

Guy: I didn't serve in the military, I was a gym teacher for special needs children.

John: really?

Guy: yeah and before that I was a social worker for children with special needs and parolees.

John: huh, I wasn't expecting that from you.

John: what about you Kyle?

Kyle: *swallows nervous* I went to art school before dropped out to design greeting cards.

John and guy: ...

Kyle: I don't why I'm here either! I guess it was just slim pickings for veterans and over worked social workers!

[sarcasticscribbles]

Artschool Dropout

I made a thread about how and why I became an artschool dropout, and want to share it here too. Storytime! It's mainly a highlight of parts I despite in the art worlds; capitalism and superiority. My experience was affected by the environment, and hell was a bad environment

Back in the distance year of 2019 I went to an(community) art college in like the *fancy* part of my area. I lived across the lake on the countryside, so I was not prepared for this environment. Rich people cosplaying poor is the best description. Fancy clothing made to look dirty and no-one wore shoes. It was very networking-vibe, with "omg we HAVE to talk more later" but never doing so. Like nurses energy. To be fair I became more and more non-approachable as time went on.

A good note is that Swedish education is normally free, even uni degrees, but this one cost money. It was that was never addressed or mentioned when I applied; that's on me maybe, but the few friends I had didn't know either. A lot was beaten around the bush when it came to expenses. A big draw for the school was a trip they made to Berlin during a film festival. Once the time came around they mentioned the cost for the trip (which was not mentioned before, I thought it was included) and kinda of shamed people if they wouldn't pay and go. Saying how its a highlight of the education and the few staying behind just watch movies for a week. In addition, the film festival wasn't included in the price, and we would have to pay extra to go. It was supposed to be a week, but two days was for travelling by train.

The price was something I would rather use for a private Berlin trip. It wasn't a lot, but I refused to do it, mainly for how indirect they were with everything. A friend and I said we wouldn't go and a staff complained how they would have to keep the school open just for us.

My classmates weren't an issue, it was the teachers and system, which all just felt like a money laundering scheme. One day we travelled to Stockholm, and we were tasked to go four hours alone, sit and stare at an object and think what it made is feel. Those were the instructions.

Four hours. Alone. Then home.

I and one other instead went to grab a coffee and trash talk. Once the time was up, I just made up on the spot "what it made me feel" and he gave me a job well done. I understand the assignment, but the execution from the teacher was all wrong.

It wasn't my crowd tho, I came from a gaming development High school while these people were like, social studies. I'm used to a nerdy crowd, is what I'm trying to say.

I have two funny examples:

I was talking to some guy during a break the ice get together with the whole school (very small school) and I explained I studied video game development before, and he said "omg that's so cool!!" And I answered, "yeah! Do you play?" And he said "yes, the piano :)"

And other time we were talking about painters, and when they asked me who my favourite was, I thought I would joke and said "oh, donatello :) because I love purple" and NO ONE got my tmnt ref and instead thought some Italian Renaissance was my favourite artist.

But back to the main issue, it was the school: First day our teacher handed us supplies from a closet and I was like "wow! Thank you! When these run out (BECAUSE WE'RE FKN ARTISTS) can we grab new ones in the closet?" And she said "no :) this is for the two years you are here" Like eight different hardness pens and a block of paper.

My worse experience was that every Tuesday was lecture day (although we didn't have grades nor exams) and all students gathered in a dark room to look at a PowerPoint about culture and people.

Fun in theory, but again executed so badly. My last lecture one teacher said "oh, and we gotten complaint not everyone can take notes during the presentation, so we thought one from each class could take notes and share with everyone else later :)! Any volunteer?"

Like ??? What? I raised my hand and said "you have a PowerPoint there? Why can't just share the presentation with everyone if they want to go back later?" AND SHE ANSWERED "that is a great idea, but unfortunately that would take weeks. So this is a better alternative:)"

TO THIS DAY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE MEANT BY THAT

Smaller details ; expensive lunch, creepy teacher keeping images of women's privates on screen (and I'm an artist I don't mind nudity) pointless activities and little progression. I can't give it a fair judgement, I only lasted three weeks but jumped in the opportunity to leave.

Cherry on top was I had communicated in private with my mentor about quitting and the day it was decided I had to go back to get my stuff and have one last day and the teacher (not my mentor) exclaimed in the shadiest way "Sophie? I thought you quit" I hadn't told my friends yet.

Last day I replaced all my supplies with new from the fancy closet, and me and my friends stole coffee from the cafeteria during lunch (it was only included if you bought food) to celebrate my time. We all hated the system of the school, but all of us loved art.

My experience is mainly the environment the school was located in; upper-class pretending not to be. The people were alright and i got a few friends before quitting. It was also traditional, general art when I prefer digital art. The school, system, and teacher were hell, which is a shame because it took something I loved and turned it into all the things I hate. i don't regret going and I don't regret quitting when I did. Best thing to come out of it was my literal label Artschool Dropout

[hansoeii]

Hii :) I don't know if anyone asked this bevore, but I wanted to ask what exactly you are studying and if you can reccomend it. I'm currently a bit lost because I'm going to graduate from a artschool (FOS) next year and I don't know what I want to do with my life. I'm personally thinking about graphic design (eventhough "production design" is my dream) because I live in Germany. And do you have any job-plans for the future? (Or something you can recommend an artist in a similar situation)

I absolutely love your art (I know this is a bit off topic, but do you use a specific app/website to create your reference sheets?)

Thank you !!

Hey! I don't think I have answered this one on here before!

I always wanted to study illustration, but couldn't really find a good school for it here in germany and I didn't want to study overseas. So instead I went for communication design. It's basically a big mix of everything. Bit of illustration, photography, after effects, 3D, film and a bunch of editorial and graphic design. Most people that study this end up in an advertising agency. That's also what most teachers prepare us for.

Do I recommend it? I gotta be honest with you and say no. But that's mostly because I do not like my school very much. In general it's actually a pretty cool thing to study since you learn SO much from so many different areas, but overall it's quite a headache for me now since I know I wanna work in illustration and not at an agency, but none of my classes really focus on it. I mostly just design ads, posters, websites etc. which isn't what I enjoy doing. It is quite useful to know because it helps me with building my own brand as an illustrator, but besides that it's just a bit...ugh. Unless you actually enjoy graphic design like some of my close friends, then this might actually sound fun to you!

For the longest time I wanted to work as a character designer and work for video game companies and such, but now I've realized that I enjoy illustrating a lot more and I managed to build an audience over the last few years that allows me to go freelance once I'm done with school next year. So my plan is: Go freelance, open a proper shop, attend conventions and do commissions! I'd also love to give illustrating book covers a go if the opportunity ever comes up!

I'm not sure if any of this is helpful to you, but feel free to send me a private message if you want to know more I'm happy to help since I know how stressful it is to not know what you want to do :')

Oh and I just create my reference sheets with clip studio! I just throw all the pictures in there, haha.

Thank you, have a great day!

[rknchan]

i love catcf :cccc

picture 1. writing translation:

on the left, above wonka: sweet deaths in different places

on the top right: everything is okay charlie <3

on the bottom right: teacup hat? what next?

picture 2 these are sketches for the final composition that is needed for my artschool graduation

my teachers might not like it tho and tell me to do another compositions (i have another options too its an illustration with narodnaya volya, and with raskolnikov & sonya)

[icharchivist]

That's so funny

In like seventh grade I got really into watching Anime online and it was easier to find stuff in English so I had no choice but to get good at English. My English teacher was really happy about that because I got really good at grammar and vocabs and since he then assumed that I would just know the answers to all his questions, I basically got to chill throughout the lessons and still got good grades

Good times

While I didn't play video games in class like you, I may have read books under the table. I don't actually remember all that well

helppp

i also got good at English because i wanted to find translations of manga and stuff and i found the french fan translations too slow -- i then joined english roleplaying communities and ended up honing it there. In highschool i had pretty much the same experience as you, but there i wasn't allowed to do something as big as play video games lmaooo. I was reading fanfictions in class tho as long as i tried to act stealthy the teacher was willing to ignore me.

Artschool was just particuliarly funny to me because i had the console out and in fact was kinda grumpy i couldn't change the subs to english for proper immersion. And also because it was REALLY beginner English, like, back to middle school english, which was, to me, at the time an English Litterature Uni Drop Out, was just agonizing.

but yeah 🤝 on bilingual kids overshot a bit as they wanted to read about their fav animanga and now they have to chill in english class to let other people learn.

[idlyingabout]

I spent some 10 months working in this retail supermarket shop that's close to home and after quitting the only experience that's stayed with me is those rare few times when i would see other queer people just existing in public. Maybe it's because I'm kind of a coward and could never be that openly out, or the environment in this area of the city that I know is very christian and very hostile (the things that i've heard my coworkers saying...) but I came to treasure those rare moments in a very special way. It can feel kinda lonely here, where sometimes it seems like it's just me and the friends I met in artschool and the people in other areas that i see on instagram, weirdly far away from me, and knowing that it'll be decades before we achieve anything meaningful in this country, but seeing someone being so open and brave like that makes me wanna keep going y'know? Maybe someday I'll live in a future where my teacher from artschool didn't have to travel to the USA to get married, and I can go to the beach with my friends and have twin scars on my chest.

[wonderful-meganekko]

i think my favorite thing about House M.D. is that it often starts episodes with the daily life of the patient which, if you didn't know what show was up, would absolutely fool you into thinking this was literally anything else. "huh so she's a teacher at an artschool and- no hold on this is the medical malpractice show again"

[maleloli]

I love artschool teacher told me to just draw furries instead of trying to make something correct and serious

[lovingnutpirate]

real events happening at my artschool #1:

Class: *wants to leave*

Teacher: *enters class*

A whispers: should we? *Gestures* should we leave?

B: *gestures* idk

A: *opens door*

B: *sprints out the door like there life dependeds on it*

A: *chuckles* HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHI HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHI HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHI HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHI HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHI

*Go down one floor*

A: *calms down a little*

B:*still running*

Random woman: You ran away?

A: *trying to not chuckle and very unconvincing* ..No..

B: *facepalms* vey convincing