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Re: can i get some advice?

Posted By: MACK!
Date: MON, 10/21/02, 6:14 p.m.

In Response To: Re: can i get some advice? (Jean)

Just to make it clear, I was surprised and flattered at the mention of me, not the assignment itself.
I do understand the practical value of this. When I was in college, some teachers had us do the same kind of projects in our drawing or painting classes. Not in reference to comic artists but other historical artists. It gives you a good jumping off point. And lets you get passed what you might percieve as the superficial aspects of one kind of painting or another. Lets you see it from the scaffolding up. I've done paintings "in the vein of" (as our teacher called them) other painters throughout art history. In my case, I think it broadened my perspective a bit.

: --I can't believe that Joe (Kubert), whom I regard highly
: as a comic artist, would actually give a lesson in
: "copying" another artists style.

: Its not as if this "practice" isn't done enough
: in this industry already (and at the professional
: level to)!

: Artists should inspire other aspiring artists and even to
: the degree of influencing them in their formative
: years. BUT just learing to copy them (I know this was
: just supposed to be a lesson....in...copying?) whats
: the practical use?

: Its like showing toddlers how to walk with cruches
: instead of on their own. Of course we learn by
: example. But if students should be learning by
: observing or studying the "why" of another
: artist's work. And then applying the information of
: what was observed to their own work.

: I know I may have gone on to long about this, but the
: notion of copying (especially at the level of a Kubert
: school) is very unsettling.

: sincerely, Toby

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