/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Before you start doing whatever dumb shit these ngmi are saying do the actual fubdamentals.
Contour drawings, negative space, value studies. This will teach you how to draw what you see.
After that you can learn about, anatomy, perspective, composition.

>>4870004
>maybe American education should give a shit about educating art skills into youth if you want better art.
Hijacking this point with no survivors.
I recall way back in elementary school, I tried applying for "Advanced art classes." I was told by all my classmates I was the best artist in the class and they all went "Wow cool!" When walking by me while I worked. So I tried applying and got told off because of two reasons.
1. My grades weren't good enough.
2. My family couldn't afford it.
Point 1? Arguably legitimate. Maybe I would have even bothered fucking improving my other subjects if not for the fact that point 2 basically said "No matter what you're not getting in here."
It's from this point early on you learn that people don't actually give a shit about art or artists.
Then in highschool I tried applying for drawing classes and oh, what do you know, immediately all full. Didn't get a single in. Why? Because art classes are dumb fuck easy and don't actually judge your skills to get in.
The worst part is Universities.
Recently I scoured as much as possible through the internet to find talent based scholarships.
Guess what. Not a single one. No where. In all these prestigious circlejerks not a single one said "We invite you to come in and practice with us if you're good enough." Why? Because they want money. These people probably know too many people would be applying for such a thing if given the chance. So at the end of the day not only is technical art skill sparse, it costs a fucking fortune.
And that's why art is dead. No one really gives a shit about you or your ambitions. They just want money, and if they can buy some low effort duct tape with shit spread across it by a chimp to evade taxes they will, actual skill and ambition be damned.