TOP 8 WORST ART ADVICE. EVER.

EVER.

[samdoesarts]

What's the worst art advice YOU've been given??!!?!?!

[sunnyflix]

“dont use references” is just like saying “dont use a recipe to cook the food correctly. cook it from imagination” 😃

[bueprint]

I like how people say “art isn’t a real job” when literally everything we see around us is made off art??? From logos, commercials/advertisements, clothing designs, to our favorite shows… it’s all freelanced work done by an artist. Like hello?

[elizabethhasselbach]

“Don’t shade in black”

Me, a traditional artist who never uses color: *sweats nervously*

[AD-tsgq]

My high school art teacher not only believed anime WAS real art, but she was a HUGE Ghibli fan. She literally had a whole segment where she addressed how anime is real art, and all we did was watch ghibli movies. She’d point at the screen and go “see? It’s BEAUTIFUL!” And she was in her 50’s lol.

[libalarrr]

Unpopular art opinion: shading with black is okay if it’s the kind of style you’re going for. Example, superhero comic book styles, you can make your character look like they’re from a comic book if you shade with black. Like, if you have a detective character they might look really cool shaded like that.

Edit: okay maybe this opinion isn’t so unpopular if over 1k people liked it

[mayaga]

I used to think I’m “cheating” when I’m using references, but thanks to your videos I can finally draw better because I’m letting myself study and learn from references. So thank you❤️

[CrowleyA]

"art will not pay the bills"
I wanted to be an art teacher because i loved helping kids learn how to draw and that advice chopped my dream.
Now is too late to become one but i started practicing again!!

[dodoria]

For someone who drew on paper a lot trying to switch to digital, I have SO MUCH RESPECT for digital art artists. Digital art is so harder than some may think

[peeslosh]

Some girl in my art class claimed to be a professional commission artist. Her "advice" was to not use guidelines because it makes the lineart messy, and only use references when you've never seen something before. We compared drawings, and I admit that her shading and coloring were okay, but her perspective, anatomy, and understanding of physics was absolutely bongwater.

[kasketchee]

I've heard the infamous phrase "don't use references" here and there and it really put me in a place where I was hesitant to use them, but I'm slowly but surely growing more comfortable using them and they REALLY help 💕

[delphinebriand]

"stop drawing [a very specific cartoonish style]" is literally what a principal of an art school said to me when i tried to apply to his school. The whole point of wanting to go to that school was that i wanted to learn new things, but he still refused me "because i wasn't good enough for the school". This fucking hits right in my feels, man. I know i'm not that good at drawing, i'm self taught, i never had a real art teacher (besides from primary schools but those don't exactly count), and drawing/maybe becoming an animator has become my dream career but people around me are either "it's not a safe work" or the schools i want to go are way too expensive for me to attend, so i'm stuck with my depression thinking i'm as worthless as my art.

[zomxix]

"Stop drawing stuff so dark"
"That drawing looks scary"
"Your art is depressing"
"Can't you draw something more cute or fun?"
I love drawing monsters. I'm going to start a comic one day. I don't need other people to tell me what's 'wrong' with my art unless I ask them for critique. And no, I won't stop drawing what I draw. I'll continue to get better so I can create more beautiful, twisted masterpieces. Sue me.

[alexandra_reznikov]

"Real artists don't use erasers."
But I think, "Erasers are for those who make mistakes and agree to accept and correct them."

[Fruitykid]

The art advice some people give is just… traumatising.

[kasaneluvr_]

The battle of "never shade in black" and "use black for shading". I understand where both come from, but hear me out: i think it really depends on the style you're going for, there's a lot of comic books who's artists shade with completely black and it looks dynamic and cool, there's traditional art painted in grayscale with big patches of black color
I think to make black shading look good you just need to know how and where to use it

[AnastasiaAisling]

"Art baby" is the sweetest thing I could ever call myself as a fully grown-up woman who suddenly decided she wants to learn art.

[NanaSomebody]

To the people who say “digital art is not real art” or “digital art is so easy”: get a computer and cry figuring out how to change your brush and then spend another three days to figure out how to even make a new canvas and then return to us digital artists and beg for our forgiveness.

[sanvif_art]

When people say art can't be a job, makes me so mad. Some people already told me art should be free, they make you feel like sh*t

[foreverlotha]

“Digital art isn’t real art!”

That sentence has always been so funny to me. My sister is also an artist but works more in jewelry and acrylic, and she asked me to draw up something for her business. I showed her the process while making changes. Both her and our mother were laughing, looking so confused as I went through layers with multiply, color dodge, blend, getting fonts and fades. Both of them respect what I do and the work that goes into it.

Art comes in so many forms and everything is valid.