Art teachers and anime.

Sam Sam · Post by **Sam Sam** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:42 pm

What is with the art teachers aginst anime?!
I had so many teachers say that it isn't art, and it is a waist of effort. I find that comment ingnorrant and jugmental. I went thru high school proving to my art teacher that I can take anime and incorprate it in every assignment. I did and got an A in that class. Unfortunatly that did not change her mind.
I don't understand. There is so much creativity in anime. It is just as hard as other styles of art and it does produce creativity. It also gives you a basic lesson in anatomy as well as realistic drawings. Not to mention porpotions and angles.

Jebadia · Post by **Jebadia** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:56 pm

suggestion....get over it. Learn and study realism, make them happy, and do what ever the hell you want in your own time. Most art teachers find most highschool kid's anime renditions as shit, because they usually are, so you have to see it from their point of view. Your anime drawings probably look terrible, with huge anatomical errors that are not due to the 'style', but because you are trying to draw anime without any further knowledge of drawing like perspective, foreshortening, values, ANATOMY (this one is life and death).

If you want to attempt to wow your teacher with an anime oriented drawing, it had better be one hell of a composition. The only time I actually got recognition for an anime image I did, it was a remake of the X/1999 movie dvd cover done on matte board with ink and prisma markers. Took me a few weeks, I even added shit that wasn't on the dvd cover, like Kamui's face being reflected on the sword (that's not easy making it convincing with marker...well not at the time). The teacher decided to hang it on the wall.

Closest I came after that was a large matteboard picture of Spider-Carnage...completely stippled, in color. So no scribble of Kenshin is gonna impress your art teacher.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:14 pm

Since every third kid in art class from 7th grade up is probably obsessed with anime, they're probably just tired of it by now.

From what I hear, art school on the college level is much, much worse. All the other kids will probably hate you, too. So if you're determined, just don't worry about it. Do your thing and they'll do theirs.

OmniStrata · Post by **OmniStrata** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:20 am

Some suggestions I've got on studying extremely skilled artists would be:

Kazushi Hagiwara
Satoshi Urushihara
Hyung Tae-Kim
Masamune Shirow

These artists [well, save Shirow], aren't very well known outside certain circles but they have extremely well detailed and jaw-dropping art posters, pieces, anime, manga designs, and hell, Calenders!

By looking up the 'unknowns', you stand a far better chance at coming up with something very nice vs. the been-there-done-that group:

Akira Toriyama
Rumiko Takahashi
etc.

Some 'anime know it alls' are stupid enough to NOT know/care who the anime series art originated from or even the companies involved...

If you wish to prove you love your anime and respect its value, saying DBZ R0X0RS, GOKU'S THE SHIT [literally], etc. really doesn't do you much justice or help the anime at all...

I say, if you really want to know your anime and your art, you should study its origins, and not just its methods. Knowing how to draw anime is only a small section of what anime really is all about. For instance, did you know a very large % of anime is based on real Japanese Myth?

Consider looking for the book: Samurai from Outer Space. It'll give you some insight on not just how to draw anime, but also its history and well, you can be an anime as well as Japanese cultured person in short order...

And yeah, you'll probably get a better feel for anime character design if you know how/why anime is here...