>>114591495I don't think unlearning would be the correct term here, sure when you draw using marble bust or straight from the reference material or capeshit that looks passably human, the figures mostly have european features, but the skill acquired, in term of anatomy, perspective, proportion, texture and light, they mostly transcend the particular instance of your drawing
agree or disagree, the artist's criticism isn't unfounded, but the approach could be more focused towards people should practice with all kind of people as reference, for artistic versatility, and maybe the curriculum should facilitate that, otherwise you end up with same face, framing the issue into antagonizing white people will throw people off, like shit, old masters who came up with systematic way to draw things or people literally happened to be white, they didn't know they have to account for the minority in their references, drawing minority is probably advanced topic back in their time because of how difficult it is to hire one as a model
