As anybody who’s been enrolled on a drawing course will probably already know, your ideas about what to expect from your art classes can often be much different from reality. Maybe you enrolled because you wanted to sketch men and women sculpted like Greek Gods and Goddesses, yet ended up drawing people who looked like nude versions of your grandparents. Or perhaps you wanted to learn how to draw a beautiful tranquil landscape while perched on a rock in the countryside, yet actually ended up soaked in rain and battered by the wind. Check out these hilarious comics created by Cassandra Calin for Collegehumor for more funny examples of how a drawing course often fails to match your expectations.
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I don't like the figure one. There's just as much art and beauty to be found in drawing someone fat and hairy as drawing someone smooth and muscly. Hell, some artists even choose the former.
It's about expectations, not what is good/ beautiful.
Felicia, you are talking about an artist. They girl portrayed is simply a student whose expectations are way too high or let's better say to unrealistic (too cliché) and maybe she has the wrong idea about studing art. To me, the message these cartoons convey is that being an artist isn't only about talent but also about discipline, knowledge, insightfulness, and risk-taking (I mean: hard work and thinking out of the box).
Felicia Luca. I think that this drawing is actually very realistic and truthful itself. Sure, in a perfect world, an artist aiming for a professional level will want to draw various kinds of body types, but in the world where we're living now, a young and immature girl and aspiring artist (so not yet an "actual" one) most likely doesn't fantacise about a man looking twice her age while drawing nudes. She might even be dreaming of a possible potential romance with the model by default, because somehow that's what our heads are majorly filled up with.
There's definitely an implication that the latter is superior.
An actual artist would not have those expectations. And art is more about truth and richness of life, than beauty.
The expression on the artist's face strongly suggests that the fat, hairy man is horrifying and gross. This comparison drawing is the reason that I'm not sharing this link.
Agreed
An Art student is expected to learn to draw all the muscles. When the models have a lot of body fat, that's impossible. Of course you also need to draw all kinds of body types, but that model wouldn't work for anatomic drawing.
Yeah, but who wants the taint-view seat?
Why are you always acting like little pussies?
Why do you have to imply that a pussy is something bad?
Maybe nudity can be embarrassing when you face a "real" man (with all the hair and the fat and non of the glamour) showing his crotch and you have to draw it.
That's a matter of taste.
I agree with you. This is modern media - men have to be in shape AND hairless. The assumption being that fat and hairy is something disgusting and creepy.
I did a figure painting in watercolor once for a class. The painting had been commented about positively by a few people, saying how I captured the model's youth and beauty...which I then have to explain is why my painting sucks. When I came to the class a bit late, I thought there was a young teenage boy as a model. When I saw the model from the front, I realized it was an older woman, very lanky and wrinkly. i think it's good to learn to draw/paint different body types, but my painting was nothing like the real thing. Ha ha...
as an art student now I am hoping that the difference between the H and B pencils will not be the only thing I can take away from it :D :D but otherwise pretty accurate
After years of Art School, all I really learned was that while I entered for cartooning, the school does not recognise cartooning as art.
So sadly true
yeah that's unfortunately true :/
Well, the artist certainly took advantage of the drawing classes.
That's what I was thinking
I don't like the figure one. There's just as much art and beauty to be found in drawing someone fat and hairy as drawing someone smooth and muscly. Hell, some artists even choose the former.
It's about expectations, not what is good/ beautiful.
Felicia, you are talking about an artist. They girl portrayed is simply a student whose expectations are way too high or let's better say to unrealistic (too cliché) and maybe she has the wrong idea about studing art. To me, the message these cartoons convey is that being an artist isn't only about talent but also about discipline, knowledge, insightfulness, and risk-taking (I mean: hard work and thinking out of the box).
Felicia Luca. I think that this drawing is actually very realistic and truthful itself. Sure, in a perfect world, an artist aiming for a professional level will want to draw various kinds of body types, but in the world where we're living now, a young and immature girl and aspiring artist (so not yet an "actual" one) most likely doesn't fantacise about a man looking twice her age while drawing nudes. She might even be dreaming of a possible potential romance with the model by default, because somehow that's what our heads are majorly filled up with.
There's definitely an implication that the latter is superior.
An actual artist would not have those expectations. And art is more about truth and richness of life, than beauty.
The expression on the artist's face strongly suggests that the fat, hairy man is horrifying and gross. This comparison drawing is the reason that I'm not sharing this link.
Agreed
An Art student is expected to learn to draw all the muscles. When the models have a lot of body fat, that's impossible. Of course you also need to draw all kinds of body types, but that model wouldn't work for anatomic drawing.
Yeah, but who wants the taint-view seat?
Why are you always acting like little pussies?
Why do you have to imply that a pussy is something bad?
Maybe nudity can be embarrassing when you face a "real" man (with all the hair and the fat and non of the glamour) showing his crotch and you have to draw it.
That's a matter of taste.
I agree with you. This is modern media - men have to be in shape AND hairless. The assumption being that fat and hairy is something disgusting and creepy.
I did a figure painting in watercolor once for a class. The painting had been commented about positively by a few people, saying how I captured the model's youth and beauty...which I then have to explain is why my painting sucks. When I came to the class a bit late, I thought there was a young teenage boy as a model. When I saw the model from the front, I realized it was an older woman, very lanky and wrinkly. i think it's good to learn to draw/paint different body types, but my painting was nothing like the real thing. Ha ha...
as an art student now I am hoping that the difference between the H and B pencils will not be the only thing I can take away from it :D :D but otherwise pretty accurate
After years of Art School, all I really learned was that while I entered for cartooning, the school does not recognise cartooning as art.
So sadly true
yeah that's unfortunately true :/
Well, the artist certainly took advantage of the drawing classes.
That's what I was thinking