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New painting I made!!

Kai C

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That's toxic as fuck! Totally not how you reach a student, she definitely didn't get neither art not teaching!
 
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Donovan Etue

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    The art teacher I had for the one year I did art in school was nowhere near that bad but I gained nothing from it either haha. I took art in 7th grade in my tiny school of at max 130 K-12 students. That year no one in Jr High took the class so I was thrust forward into the advance class with the high schoolers which most had been drawing since they were 6 or 7 so 8-10 years already while I had only really drawn what interested me for 6 months to a year at most. The teacher never gave me any basic lessons, rarely came over to help me out and would take what seemed like forever to come over to help me when I had a question because she was busy visiting with the most talented artist in the class who's parents were both talented tattoo artists and she had learned to draw very well starting from a very young age. I basically was thrown into the pool to sink or swim and I sank hard haha. Grades came out terrible and she was confused why I couldn't do some of the projects she had given out that were pretty intricate. Quite a few of the early lessons were replicating pretty detailed drawings ranging from a subway with trees and a neighborhood in the background to our school mascot which was a pretty detailed image of a lion. That class killed like 95% of any interest I had left in drawing. The classmates I had were cool and super friendly but god did I hate the projects I was given and not care for my teacher. She's a nice lady outside of school but damn did I not like her as an art teacher.
     

    Kat the metalhead

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    So a recent goal of mine has been to draw the musicians that inspire me. So that would start with Syn, Hendrix, and David Gilmour.
    That’s awesome!!! I mainly draw and paint the people that inspire me, like In my living room I have a painting of lady gaga cuz she has been one of my favourite artists since I was 6. When you finish them send me pictures id love to see!!
     
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    Kat the metalhead

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    That’s horrible! My art teacher did the same she gave extra attention to the most talented people also! But I’m extremely lucky that the 12 of us in that class were so close to each other the whole 4 years. since the teacher didn’t do shit we all would give each other tips and helpful criticism.

    We all took the 4 years cuz if you took all 4 years you’d get a certificate and something on your diploma which I can’t remember. so we all struggled through the class just to get a certificate.

    all of us even met up after class to plan a day to all give notes to the prinipal of all the bad stuff she has done, which was a lot I literally wrote on 2 pages front and back.

    some of the stuff she did was crazy!!
    She faked a car accident and claimed she hurt her arm cuz she didn’t wanna draw, we found this out cuz we saw her drawing with the hand she claimed hurt and when we told her she fake screamed, the whole class pitched together to buy stuff for a family in need before Christmas and when we gave her the stuff to bring to the office she said she bought all the stuff and we wanted nothing to do with it, when in fact she didn’t wanna do it. She’s thrown clay and chairs at people, made fun of people with disabilities and so much more!

    She was such a bad teacher that I had to go to the vice principal to bump up my art mark cuz she gave me 50’s just because she didn’t like me when the rest of the class got 95 to 100 and some how she still has a job at the school, I literally warn people that go to the high school not to take art because of how bad she is

    highschool was so tough for me especially music cuz again rude teachers and I got bullied like crazy! So happy it’s done and over with!
     

    Donovan Etue

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    Holy fuck! She sounds like she'd be miserable to be around for longer than 30 seconds on a great day let alone any other day that happened to end with Y. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'm glad you had a group of friends that were close to help endure years of that. I'm curious about how the hell she still has a job after all of that. You'd think a dozen different students going in with the same complaints would rule for someone actually looking into the complaints. I'm sorry to hear that your high school years were fucking awful. You didn't deserve that! I'm glad those days are over with and that hopefully way more sunny days are yet to come!
     
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    Manvir B

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    Art always confused me because it's so objective, especially in school. How the fuck are you gonna tell me if something is good or not with a grade based on YOUR opinion. It's literally 70% luck that you get a examiner that likes your piece.
     
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    Kat the metalhead

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    Thanks so much! I’m just so happy I found an amazing art teacher after high school and I’m so happy I found this site everyone here has helped me so much!
     
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    Kai C

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    Do you ever wonder if @Syn Gates thinks it's weird that we're drawing him or has he just accepted long ago that it's happening? In interviews from the Waking the Fallen / City of Evil days Shads was like "holy shit people are getting our band tattoo'd on them" (paraphrasing a little). So maybe it's the same feeling.
     

    Kat the metalhead

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    Honestly I bet he’s used to it and probably is honoured or amazed that people paint or draw him. that’s just my guess. Like I’ve had people draw me while I was minding my business in school or public and I was so amazed that people wanted to draw me! Cuz why me There’s so many other things to draw People have even asked my to design tattoos for them and I feel so honoured when people do!
     
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