This may be a true thing that is happening to every child who learns to sketch, student A, when he was four or five years old, he was in the painting class after learning creative art, and his parents want their children to learn sketching, so that they can have a skill, and they can use art in case they go in the future. So I found a sketching class for my child near my home that looked good.
The child starts from practicing the line, to copying and painting the template, painting to high school, and then to the third year of high school to participate in the provincial art joint examination, and is admitted to an undergraduate college that everyone thinks is good. Along the way, the children's energy, parents' time and money were all invested, but in the end, after graduation, they found that they couldn't find a job and were forced to change careers. I am not exaggerating the facts, I am just telling the truth, and even deliberately erasing the various hardships of the learning process and the cruelty of society.
Does that mean that children can't learn to sketch? Don't go down the path of art? Walk the art and don't have anything to eat?
No, the problem is not that sketching is a way of painting, nor is it that society does not need art talents. The problem is that most children learn sketches that are [test-taking, technique routines are preferred], and the Academy of Fine Arts does not need such students, let alone society.
But most parents don't know about art, how to judge that what their children are learning is this kind of routine, technique priority, and more test-oriented sketching?
What's wrong with this kind of work? So much so that we feel like this is ruining some of the child's abilities?
At first glance, this kind of work feels that the contrast between black, white and gray is strong, and it is glamorous and beautiful. But when we look at the apples and interlinings he paints, they are actually the same technique, even the hard jars and interlinings use the same technique.
If our children start copying such pictures when they are just learning to sketch, then they will subconsciously think: this is the standard! In the long run, if you copy and benchmark according to such a picture, the child's perceptual ability will really be wasted.
Let's look at the picture again, the works from the high school attached to the **Academy of Fine Arts, you will find that these pictures are very different, they are thousands of people, in fact, we will think when we go to school in the attached middle school:
How do I convey this beauty with my feelings, with my perspective?
When people draw with this idea in mind, they want to explore their own way of expression and find the best angle for me to observe this group of still lifes and scenes. This state of painting is called "expression"! It's me who wants to feel it! However, the state of painting like Figure 2, called "conceptual tracing", is not aesthetically pleasing!
If each of your paintings is a depiction of concepts, without your own pursuit of beauty, and without being moved by beauty, then you will gradually lose the requirements of aesthetics, so don't touch works without aesthetics.