[ SECRET POST #186 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #186 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Early-early 'cause I've got stuff to do later. ):

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 164 secrets from Secret Submission Post #027.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 ] broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] personal attack.
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4, where I go TL;DR

[nashidesei.livejournal.com]

The short version:

ILU HAVE MAH E-BABEHS ♥

The TL;DR version:

In my AP Art class in high school, I was told that nothing I drew was allowed to be in an anime style, because that would just be me copycatting someone else's work.

There was another girl in the class who drew and painted everything like the works of Salvador Dali. Same manner of shading so almost everything attempted to look vaguely metallic, same surrealist air, even the same subject matter in some cases. (She actually painted one of the long-legged elephants from this painting (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Dali_Temptation_of_St_Anthony.jpg) as a standalone piece at one point during the course.) Her skills weren't up to par with his, of course, but she really wasn't bad. She just couldn't draw or paint anything on her own. She HAD to have a Dali reference.

When I finally got fed up and brought this up with my teacher, he told me that mimicking a "master painter" was fine, because doing so would actually "teach the painter to do something entirely unique." When I asked why I couldn't draw in my style, then, which I'd taken years upon years to work out, his response was that "Well, it's anime. We're expecting you to do real art in this course, not follow some little pop phenomenon."

The funny thing is, after that I reverted to my style for the rest of the course, and my portfolio got a higher score than the Dali girl. Only marginally so, I guess--the difference between a 2 and a 3 doesn't seem like much to most people--but it made me laugh so hard.

Not real art my ass.

Art is art. And we're artists, no matter what anyone says.

So...ILU HAVE MAH E-BABEHS ♥

Re: 4, where I go TL;DR

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

AP Art? Okay, I think is a sign the whole AP / IB thing has gone a little too far. How does a person objectively grade the most subjective of all subjects? ... You have my sympathy for going through that.

Re: 4, where I go TL;DR

[vzg.livejournal.com]

I think the idea is just to have a course that will better prepare you for Art in university. Basically, if you were interested in going into it as a major, AP was the idea in the same way that anyone who wanted to go into a chemistry-related field might've taken AP Chem. Also, credits!

At my school it was like that, anyway. That and it was a double-period class and had HUGE-ASS assignments that would've made me faint as soon as I was told they were do X days from then.

Re: 4, where I go TL;DR

[theladytrinity.livejournal.com]

SIGNED!

I had the IB Art Teacher From Hell who didn't like me, didn't like cartoons, and didn't like my work. She played favorites real bad, so it could easily have been personal, but she was not keen on my being a cartoonist. She shafted me in the senior art show, stuck my cartoons in the back, and ignored hell out of me all night; then invited me in specially to talk to the rising senior class about being creative and individual or some bull and forgot I was there until about five minutes before class ended. If only I'd painted or made crappy masturbatory self-congratulating videos to pass off as art like the good little conceptual drones instead of doing what I loved, I'd have been set.

Bitter much? Yes. And oh, it did not get better in college. What makes art teachers insane?