Category: Education
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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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Singapore Art Stores: Quick Pros And Cons Reviews
Introduction Depending on your country, you will have various options for purchasing arts and crafts. From having a lot of options, not just store wise but material wise, like the United States to sadly very little if you are not in a developed country. Singapore is a developed country and it has its own art […]
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The Weird Bias Against Burne Hogarth
I remember when the online art community was beginning to get together and become an actual online community, they also started pooling resources, what is good, what isn’t, who is offering what classes, are they good, how much were they, which artists were the up and coming ones, etc. Beginner Guides were being set up […]
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Supplementary #3 (Loomis: 3/4 View) Solving Problems
Introduction Hello! This is the third post of my Supplementary series where I do my best to research and address certain issues I have found with different art instructional/educational methods. I then post my conclusions and findings in this series to hopefully help others who are having the same issues resolve them and move on […]
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Art Is A Sport: How Do You Commit?
Introduction This is an artist’s attempt on an artist take, on some of the concepts from the lecture series: “Psychology of Performance” by Dr Eddie O’Connor mainly aimed at Sports Psychology and Performance. This chapter is about Commitment. I was inspired to do this after seeing how related to art it can be, after Marshall […]
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Art Is A Sport: How To Accept Criticism?
Introduction This is an artist’s attempt on an artist take, on some of the concepts from the lecture series: “Psychology of Performance” by Dr Eddie O’Connor mainly aimed at Sports Psychology and Performance. I was inspired to do this after seeing how related to art it can be, after Marshall Vandruff mentioned it so many […]