Is distance learning effective for drawing?
I mean specifically individual online training with a teacher, if I have little experience. Graphics.
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In any educational process, there are two goals: obtaining skills and knowledge and professional socialization. Distance education and self-education does well with the first task and slightly worse with the second. If you want to learn how to draw for yourself and if you want to become a professional, it's important to have an environment and community around you. In order to learn, you need other people: friends-students help you not to quit classes, teachers show you what career paths open up for you, and the creative environment helps you formulate your own view of painting and your taste. But not everyone can drop out of business and enter the Moscow Art Institute or Saint Martins – I try to reproduce the experience of classical education at home.
Disclaimer: I'm not a professional, but a very mediocre drawing enthusiast. I draw all my life and sometimes devote more or less time to it, drawing for me is a hobby, not a profession, the purpose of my classes is to enjoy the process.
Base:
It is not enough just to hold a pencil confidently to draw well, you need a lot of observation, you need to see how others drew. To have your own style, you need to see the style of others. I know artists I like, and the first thing I did was buy their albums, books, and biographies. I read, considered, thought, as from their biography. Make a list of five artists that you like. Read about them or watch biopics (films based on their biographies).
Make yourself a list of 5 artists that you like, a collection of drawings, write about each of them, what interests you, watch one movie-biography of this artist, read the wiki about him, and if you are interested further, find out what else is written about him in books.
Wednesday:
Find the artists you like and the people you want to be like on Instagram. Subscribe, look at the tags under their posts, and use the tags to find other people who do what you like. Subscribe to your teacher's Instagram and make sure that you like not only the way he draws, but also the way he thinks, speaks, and writes. Choose courses that have an online community of students, and these are the people who will motivate you to continue. You will be able to compare your work with the work of other people who are taking the same course as you. Find professional painting schools in different countries, see how the training program is organized in these schools, subscribe to students of these schools (students of the Moscow Art Institute, for example, can be found by reading the comments on the institute's Instagram). Surround yourself with people who are learning the same business as you.
Tools:
There is a lot of craftiness in drawing, but just because you can draw with a ballpoint pen doesn't mean you can draw with ink. Mastery means fluency in the entire range of instruments. See what the people you like draw with, and try to buy everything gradually. Start with cheap options (do not immediately buy 100 squirrel brushes and paper for 100 rubles/sheet), get used to it, you will buy more expensive tools. It's like driving a car: if you learned to drive a car without power steering and a manual transmission, then switch to hydraulics with an automatic transmission and feel great.
Practice:
You'll have to work hard. Set aside time when you will be engaged 6 set a class goal (I want to draw this house as a result, for example, now I can't draw it , but in a month I will learn), try not to give up, even if drawing is a hobby, draw regularly.
Check:
The artist does not draw what something looks like, but how the viewer sees it. Painting and drawing are impossible without a spectator, a drawing becomes a drawing when it is looked at, without a spectator it lies and is nothing. It's scary to show your work, but until you show it, it's not finished. Get yourself an Instagram and post everything you draw there.
Links:
1) Playing to the Gallery, Grayson Perry – книга
2) Surviving Picasso, 1986-film
3) The Art of Sketching, Mattias Adolfsson – курс
4) Abstract: The Art of Design, Netflix – сериал.
5) Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts-an annual exhibitiona
Yes, it is effective if you choose the format of training courses correctly. There are some big advantages to distance learning::
Minuses:
Therefore, in order to develop your drawing skills in a comprehensive way, I recommend alternating between distance and offline learning.
I think that at the initial stage, without a base and at least some knowledge in the subject, such classes will be very productive. You need to gain some experience in the classroom with a teacher. They will explain the basics and set up guidelines. He will put his hand and eye. Drawing is like music – you can't just learn it remotely. You need to understand what to learn, and for this you need a good mentor.
A professional artist, of course, can improve the skill remotely. He understands what he wants to learn. What knowledge will the remote program provide?
I want to add that at the initial stage, nothing will replace live communication. The teacher should see “live” how you conduct your work. This will give a much better and faster result. But this is ideal.