>>5928643A beginner trap is art advice that hinders a beginners skill development. That could mean it discourages them and they give up or gives them false beliefs that will make their art stagnate. Since learning and teaching art is so hard and subjective, everyone learns differently and at different rates. Telling a beginner use a permanent medium like ink could one beginner but discourage another. Telling a beginner to grind 250 boxes could lead to improvement in one artist but could lead to bad practice in another. Good art advice builds on top of other skills and snowballs into even better art skills. Teaching a beginner how to teach themselves is crucial to long term art development.
Good art advice takes the artists skill level, temperament, learning style, art goals, time, money etc. into account. Without all these prerequisites art advice will be too general and people on the edges (a lot of people here) will get advice that doesn't help them in the long run.
The major problem with this board is that people here are extremely gullible. Threads calling Da Vinci and Michelangelo /beg/ are obviously jokes or trolls but many people here take it seriously. Due to the fact that this board is slow and filled with a few bad actors, the gullible newfags take everything literally and often threads slide off topic. People will jokingly give the exact opposite advice just to confuse these people. If you are unfamiliar with this board or this site in general, I advise you browse for two years before posting and take everything here with a grain of salt.
