Category: Education
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【Unlearning A Toxic Art Education】- 【The Ultimate Excuse For Toxicity】
There’s always an excuse for bad art education/teacher behaviour that I always end up hearing from the exact same kind of educators throughout my education. This is it.
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【Unlearning A Toxic Art Education】 – 【The Identity Crisis】
How do you unlearn a toxic art education? I talk about how your identity as an artist/creative creator is important, in order to feel like you are not an imposter and actually deserving to be part of the creative community. How this identity can be taken away by a toxic art education and how it […]
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Ask Your Art Lecturers For THIS!
If there’s one thing you should ask of your lecturer, its this basic (at least I think its basic) thing.
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“Tearing Artwork” In A Digital Age | How and Why Can It Help?
In art education, you may have heard of the horror stories of teachers tearing artwork in front of the very student that drew them. How and why should we do something with similar goals but not the same method in the digital age of art?
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Online Art Schools/Mentors VS Brick And Mortar Art Schools (3 Rounds!)
In this day and age, when people want to start a art education, want to start to learn more about art and get better at their craft, they face a problem. Do they go with tremendously cheaper, more accessible, possibly with online forums to support each other in your journey, and more practical online art […]
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3 Methods to Develop A Critical Creative Eye
As you get started in your creative artistic journey, you will over-time develop your taste, your standards, your goals, your style, etc. The artist you liked at the beginning of your art journey, you may end up not liking/moving after you get more experience/seen other artists. Stuff like that, you evolve as you grow as […]
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3 Ways For Artists To Practice Mindfulness
Mindfulness is practiced by many people in many ways, to elevate themselves, for self-improvement, etc, it is used even in sports practice to be better at their chosen sport. Being mindful can also help artists to center themselves and improve themselves in their own chosen craft. You don’t want to be literally slapping yourself in […]
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4 Ways Of Checking Your Artwork For Mistakes
Hello, JR here. Today, I want to talk about how to check your artwork for mistakes. There are quite a few methods of doing so, if you feel that even with the methods, you can’t tell what is wrong yet, overtime you can train your eye to see the mistakes more easily with the methods. […]
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Why The ‘Spartan’ Approach To Art Doesn’t Actually Work
Introduction When the online art community started to grow and discuss practice methods early in the hay day of the internet, a lot of them even now still champion this frankly Spartan like approach method of practicing art, mainly concept art or illustration, i.e the commercial arts. What is this method/approach? Much like Spartans where […]
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