Tuesday, February 12, 2013
As being an artist becomes being an art teacher...
...and the dangers of digital art, okay not dangers, just... well let me explain... I can appreciate and have many times made art completely digitally, and could teach classes on the Adobe suite of programs, photoshop, illustrator, flash, indesign, etc, and because I can, I likely therefore will. I hope (and it might truly be against hope) that I get to teach 2D basics too. In a world increasingly CGed I think it is a genuine concern, so I will continue to keep astride the current design tech, for both in my civilian ID and teaching guise, but I will champion the way of the pen for as long as I can.
I have been an 'artist' for a while now, I love it. I love it more than I can express in any other way than simply making the art I love. Lines and areas of black, shapes and color combinations, style with substance, all of those things I love. Watching an artist work is endlessly fascinating too me. I simply love process. I want to pass that on to the next generation, the love of line, the beauty of the hand drawn, there is something about lines on paper that just makes me smile.
So in the end if i must teach tech art, I will try to make it have the heart of a pen on paper, and I will teach and focus on the basics of the tactile sensation of feeling the pen on the tooth of the paper, there really is nothing quite like it.
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Hi Jason,
ReplyDeleteI love that you are in touch with both digital art and paper art. I am confident that both of them will be a great asset to you in your teaching career.
For some students, I think working on the computer in and of itself is a motivator. I have never felt as though I were good at drawing, but I really like photography. I think that, if I had had options to take photographs and do things to them using digital platforms, I would have been less intimidated by art class. So I think that--in all ways--one important key to good teaching is always variety. In your case, that could be a variety of mediums and a variety of genres.
Thanks for your posting! :)