Feedback is essential to learning, especially the creative skills. Practice on their own can allow students to develop their technique, but valuable feedback is how they learn whether the work that they’re doing is effective or not. Positive critique encourages students to…
Observation is the basis of all artistic growth, and it’s what everything else rests upon like a house built on a foundation. What you see in accurate service equally with, perchance even more than what you do. The power to perceive fine…
We tend to think of creativity as this kind of uncontrolled, enigmatic gift. But it grows best in a labored and prized garden, with attention clashing the logic against the imagination. For academic drawing, it’s a structured way of striking a balance…
Academic drawing is the foundation of visual arts; it is a structurally sound way for teaching students how to draw forms, perspective, and proportion. Unlike the casual sketching seen in old drawings, academic drawing values precision and purposeful practice– it enables…
