>>3813246>>3811985I had a art teacher telling us about some foreign students that took her class. They far excelled everyone in skill and technical prowess, producing pieces that were extremely advanced even for college students. BUT, they're pieces were also very boring, the subject matter always just some highly detailed figure standing in a highly detailed background in black and white. Was it well done? yes. Was the anatomy and perspective good? yes. but was it interesting or inspiring? No.
The point being that these foreign students had been taught all of this pragmatic way of studying art which trained them to be highly technically skilled, but left them with no creativity. They could draw really well, but didn't know WHAT to draw. In other words, they were hardly artists. They were just photocopying machines who could reproduce light and figures from memory. That's what these courses will teach you. They won't gift you with creativity, or make you create awe-inspiring works. They'll just teach you how things look, how they aught to look, and how to recreate that look, line for line, detail for detail. It's why anyone can LEARN to draw, but not everybody CAN draw.
