Confessions on Yik Yak | Sometimes I doubt whether or not I'll be a good art teacher. I didn't grow up learning the principles or making meaningful paintings. I doodled and made characters. My own art teacher never cared for my own original art. Even now, I draw fanart-

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Confessions 6d

Sometimes I doubt whether or not I'll be a good art teacher. I didn't grow up learning the principles or making meaningful paintings. I doodled and made characters. My own art teacher never cared for my own original art. Even now, I draw fanart-

Anonymous 6d

As a character designer/digital focused illustrator who dropped out of an art education major, the fundamentals/principles of design ARE essential and if you aren’t well versed on those you should study them more. You have the potential to be a great teacher with the skills you have but those skills are the most important and what every student, regardless of the medium, needs to learn first

Anonymous 6d

And do character design. That's my main medium. Digital character design. Sometimes I wonder if I should have done animation but I burn out easily and need to be able to take breaks- like replacing that time to teach. But I feel like I don't even compare

Anonymous

OP 6d

And yet at the same time, I want to encourage the art that I do. I want to teach lessons on character design and uplift my students when they show me a doodle of a character they like from some book or show. I want my future students to know that our kind of art is real art. I hate the idea that good/real art needs to be something that you might find in a museum one day. I look at my old deviant art page and want to encourage this kind of creativity.

Anonymous

#1 6d

I'm pretty well versed in them now, at least I understand them and I've been able to teach them in lessons. Just feels weird cause most of my peers have all of this experience from hs classes while I was taking culinary in hs😅 the intro classes were just review to them, but I was learning all of this new stuff since I hadn't been in a formal art class since 8th grade.