Art Diploma vs. Art Skills
Questions from Andy
I like what I see on the Drawing Academy website and would like to enroll. However, I have few questions:
– What your Diploma is about?
– How Drawing Academy compares to an art college?
– What art materials do I need?
– Will academy tutors critique my artworks?
Thanks,
Andy
Drawing Academy Tutors
Hi Andy,
Thank you very much for your questions.
The Drawing Academy Diploma of Excellence is to commemorate your course completion. It is not an official piece of paper that “gives a license to put any rubbish together and call it art”.
This is a quotation from one student about his official art college certificate, who wasted in a contemporary art college four years, graduated without drawing skills, and then come to us to learn how to draw.
Just ask any contemporary art college student: are their college teachers showing (by their own example) how to draw proficiently step-by-step from the beginning to the end? Do they give in-depth information on fundamental principles of drawing like constructive drawing, linear and aerial perspective, human body anatomy and proportions, golden proportions, rules of composition and so on? They don’t even show how to hold a pencil; and I’m serious about it, because we cover all this info in the Drawing Academy course.
Regarding art supplies. You are already fully prepared. A few cheap graphite pencils, eraser and paper are all that is required to fully benefit from the drawing course. Any other materials are optional.
So, it is up to you what you want to achieve – spent 4 years of your life and, in some cases, up to $100,000US for a certificate of some sort with no guarantee of your future art skills, or learn traditional time-honored drawing techniques at a miniscule price of only $257 for a lifetime membership and personal support from the Drawing Academy teachers.
Yes, you can send us your artworks for critique at any time. This service is unlimited and for a lifetime at no extra cost. Just tell me if there is any art college in the world that has the same offer – a lifetime membership for a one-time low fee. You can agree that the Drawing Academy is different.
Kind regards,
Natalie Richy and Vladimir London
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I have shared my view on my experience at a four year accredited University Art Curriculum result as a guest on this site.
I entered under the G.I. Bill, expecting with high expectations. I had some skills prior as a mechanical draftsman with a government contractor where I worked as an illustrative draftsman producing orthographic drawings using physical tools of the trade but fine art was my desire. My curriculum was drawing and painting with a minor in sculpture. I entered the University with minimal knowledge of Fine Art and exited four years later with no knowledge nor skills related to Fine Art. In truth the University catalogues never listed anything with the term “Fine Art” in it. Who would be wiser (circa 1970).
The art work of our professors hung in the University Art Gallery pre-exhibition in New York and etc. Their work was no different than “Congo’s”, a British Chimpanzee who’s work sold at 14,000 British Pounds over Renoir sculpture which never sold in the same auction. The examples can be found at this site http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140723-are-we-the-only-creative-species. Note specifically the term “Creative” and not “Fine Art”.