docvalentine:

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it worries me that people graduate high school without learning this stuff?? basic perspective knowledge like this shouldnt be a “neat trick” skfjaskl

while i agree and i feel like i personally have known this forever,

it is surprising how many artists don’t

i think a lot of people’s foundations lie in portraiture and they may never have learned to draft?

I didn’t take art classes in high school, but middle school art never taught us fundamental stuff like this. I learned this kind of thing from How to Draw books when I was younger. It’s not surprising at all that people don’t know this stuff. Public school art classes, even if taken, are rarely that useful. For us it was always still lifes of cowboy boots and glass bottles, so the school could enter them in the Houston Livestock show and Rodeo art gallery and hopefully win some cred. I think the only thing I really learned in all my years of art class is that art teachers hate the color black, and that you should always cover all the white on the paper.

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   MIND BLOWN. Just looked up the x-method. They didn’t even teach this at my school! (Art College. :| Yeah I’m payin’...

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   I took Visual Art 1 in HS which was essentially “Free elective class.” The teacher really tried, loved art and was...

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   I didn’t know there was a trick to perspective until I took a class on it in college, and even then instead of the X...

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   well we certainly didn’t learn anything. i went to a state school and they never ever invested any money or supplies...

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    I didn’t take art classes in high school, but middle school art never taught us fundamental stuff like this. I learned...

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