STAFFERS OF DRAWING AND PAINTING ON THE NETWORK AND WORKSHOPS
When you start in this of drawing and painting, many times it is desired master it all.
Learn to handle perfectly the means, oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, pencil, ink.
We are driven by the ambition to be better every day, which is very good.
I still remember that feeling of wanting to handle everything perfectly, in a few days or months and the anger that gave me to try again and again and things resisted me.
Imagine something, or try to copy something, clearly see the image in my head, but when I take it to paper, no way; I was unable to draw what I had in my thought.
I decidedly lacked technique.
One of the reasons of why I do this blog, is the tiredness of seeing how people are scammed in many drawing and painting workshops.
I have seen many, and only a very few, might be recommended.
Basically, it's not taught. There is talk of art, of artists, of sensibilities, of creativity…
And they are applauded for the bad and ignored for the good.
Son workshops where mediocrity is taught and as far as you can "learn", it depends on the ego of whoever is at the head of the business.
That is, there are many "art gurus" who force their students to do what they do, as if they were going to "create school" for posterity.
Instead of teaching the basics of drawing and painting, the techniques focus on instilling in their students what their ego dictates: Draw and paint like them "who are geniuses of art"
And if he stands out, the "teacher" may feel threatened and forced to "teach" something that would directly harm his interests..
It is not uncommon to see in these "workshops" people who have spent years drawing the same thing, without a single explanation, stuck in the same thing. Changing models over and over again, but in essence, in the background, repeating over and over again the same drawing.
Very often, they are also seen painting, without receiving a single teaching about color theory, composition, texture, rhythm, shadows…
In conclusion: When we are children, our parents give us colored pencils, waxes, markers, to entertain us, leave them alone or that we experience something that distracts us and give them a break.
In these "workshops" the same thing happens, pure entertainment, as in a nursery; that yes, paying, and in some, paying very expensive.
To art, the self-proclaimed "artists and their work"«, as it is popularly said: It's to feed them apart
The Self-Defined Artists
A few years ago, many people "learned" that they could easily call themselves insulting. ‘artist’ or ‘plastic artist’ It sounded more bombastic, and this disease, instead of shrinking, is on the rise.
Cries who, because they drew their first Goku, talk about their "art" and their "work" until old people, who think that the "salvation of humanity is in their art"
The evil of the Bachelors of Fine Arts
I don't know very well why, but to the "Bachelors of Fine Arts" make them think they're something like Dalíes or Picassos, freshly out of the oven, Whom the world will venerate and devour ‘work’ for their "particular and brilliant interpretation" of what surrounds them.
But in reality that "work" will end up in its vast majority, being part of the family furniture, or at a friend's house, who feels some apprehension about throwing it in the dumpster.
This happens, because who really should have taught him, He didn't.
Dialogue with an "artist" fresh out of the oven
A few years ago we were at a meal, and a newly "sculpture graduate" began to draw an eye on the tablecloth.
When I saw him, I said:
– That's how you draw an eye?
-Yes – answered me.
But you're not a sculptor?
Of course, I've recently graduated.
Well, you'd have to draw an eye, a thousand times better than I would. You dominate the third dimension and I don't..
-Good is that in sculpture with new materials, and new trends, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, bla
–Everything you want to tell me. But you don't know how to draw an eye.
Artist since the age of six and the other since the age of three
I also met someone who told me I was an artist since I was six years old.
But his brother, he was an artist before, since he was three. And they really believed it.
I have already told you this in this note: BEING BORN WITH THE "DON" OF BEING AN "ARTIST" OR "THE STUPIDITY IN A PURE STATE"
There is no other way to progress in drawing and painting, other than learning technique.
But when no money to pay a good teacher, you can look for alternatives, and here we enter the great and wonderful world of the internet.
A good teacher of art, it would shorten the way for us. On the other hand, when you are self-taught, you have to seek the solution, to the obstacles that we are encountering.
Self-taught
Luckily on the net, you will be able to find many, and when I say many, there are many, a lot of free download technique books, which will serve you to advance your purpose. It's just searching, downloading and practicing with them.
The self-taught, is not a being "intuitive who was born with art, nor divine gift" Here the gods or demons, have nothing to do, do not intervene.
A self-taught is someone who learns on his own, which involves him, striving harder, than someone who goes to a school, searching and searching through books, watching tutorials, analyzing, self-criticizing and never settling for what has already been learned.
And yes, if possible, having a Spartan behavior and being self-taught. get a great technical level.
I usually watch a lot of tutorials on the internet. In Youtube There's a lot of them.
I look at them to learn how other people solve, a specific situation. Anatomy, portrait, movement…etc
There are some great, good, bad and there are others that are just a "hook" for a scam.
Circus attractions, clowns and trills
Characters who sell their great trajectory (which I do not doubt that they have it) their titles (which I do not doubt that they have them) and who claim to do ‘art criticism’ defaming great painters and cartoonists, great masters of art history.
On the net we can find everything. There are those who do tutorials, some very good and others not so much, but all are valid.
Others who directly sell us their courses, or through a platform, of which I bought one a long time ago. It was eight or ten videos about a watercolor course.
When I went to see him, the first two videos were of the one who gave the course, talking about his achievements, titles and how magnificent a painter he was.
I never saw how such was the course, after those first two videos I discarded it completely.
Methodology: The clown system
There are also people on the internet talking about Art History, or doing Art Criticism.
Some who do it seriously and with them you learn a lot and others , who use it as a means of making money, no matter what.
The Clown System has a very simple methodology, and any of us can do it.
This is a modality to sell mini courses or "craft classes", which, however small and cheap, are totally useless. The worst thing is that they also attract people to their "workshops" to perform a continuous scam.
AND THIS WORKS SO:
1 – Choose a great artist (especially one you will never become) to revile, disparage, defame, and apply a good dose of hypocritical morality.
2 – Read something about his life and work. Nothing important, except some retail where to nail the dagger incisive, which here is about drawing blood. And don't forget to be a moralist: That if this one was drunk, if the other one was drugged, that one liked the money … The more rubbish you spread, the better, that this is not about talking about painting or drawing; you have to prove "how great you are"
3 – Record a video with that, making some "clowns" to fall nice.
4 – Upload it to Youtube along with the links, where you sell your "courses" and wait for the first unwary ones to fall.
You can also make money with your "video junk"
Some of these have thousands of followers blind, unconditional, drooling at videos, without realizing that, decades or hundreds of years ago, it's in the books. But to know, you have to open one.
Paper accordions
The scam comes later, when they sneak us their "cursito" or "mini course" where you will learn to make a portrait as they do, or paint so many pictures in so many days, as if with that we learned to really paint (if you need to decorate your living room, maybe they will serve to save you on buying some) paper accordions, in order to have an "artist's notebook" As in parbulitos, but without the macaroni necklace.
Paying of course, too low a price to become a cartoonist or painter overnight, but paying in short.
Every scam is based on blind ambition, and every blind ambition needs get things inmediatace, fast, immediacy, does not seek, does not analyze, does not think, is vague, lazy, It does not require efforts, not even that of reasoning and having criteria of its own.
Thinking takes a lot of work and requires a lot of effort.
Those who don't cheat us.
I also found videos of real masters and courses or mini courses, given by great painters and others where you can see how they develop their technique, and are free.
In particular it caught my attention, that one of them did a tutorial on the technique of the grisalla.
But these do not promise or insinuate, that you will be something like "artist", once the video series is finished.
In reality they will explain and you can see as they do their technical development, far away from those who say this color here and this one there, or give classes of various "manchurrios", But giving a high-sounding explanation of how soiling a canvas or paper would serve as something.
But how do you know who you're in front of?
Very easy, look for images of your work and be very critical of what you find, compare, look for the best.
The other day, I saw a video where one of these Youtube buffoons, he theorized, he explained, the deep meaning of the crap he had painted.
Here's a great sign:
When what is painted or drawn, needs great and high-sounding explanations, (as one of these said, who painted a botijo, because inside the botijo, there is water and water, it is fundamental to life) all these masturbations, they are indicating to us, that it is useless, that it is garbage, that it is worthless at all, and that We're dealing with a gross scam.
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