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Published: 2008-04-27 10:23:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 49038; Favourites: 6337; Downloads: 243
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My first stamp. Because sometimes art school doesn't happen.( and other times art class can't be tolerated. X3 )
*** 10/01/10***
Wow, this got a lot of faves/views! Now That I look back on it, it's an ugly stamp. xD I think there are prettier self taught stamps out there now. I should really update this thing. =O
THANKS GUYS! KEEP DRAWING OR ELSE!
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Heh,I'm a self-taught artist and I must say...
I still remember the time when I first got into art
MAN I was baaad...
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Art school didn't happen in my case because I didn't want to turn my hobby into a must.
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Yup, taught myself how to draw as well. :3
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I taught myself how to draw anime/manga and pixels 
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i personally think self taught is the best way to be taught
very good stamp
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ive always self taught myself to draw,i had a art class once,but i was drawing wayyyyy before. xD it didnt help at all.then i had a art teacher this year and all he could draw was bubble letters >.>
i <3 this stamp
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We aren't exactly teaching ourselves... We are also influenced by the artists in our community. They who give critiques help us learn. They who set an example help us learn. We really have been influenced by others instead of "teaching" ourselves.
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in my art class, we do nothing 8D so I learned this wonderfullosity of art...all by myself 8'D
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X3 It's nice to have these stamps out. ^^
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I have almost never been to an art class! and if I have, it never helped!
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sorry! I don't know how this comment got here!
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isn't it just annoying when people ask who taught you to draw? i always have to answer, MYSELF.
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i hate when people ask that
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It's the same with me. I figure out how to draw things on my own - no references, no tutorials, no art books, nothing. My work may not be as high-quality as something that was made by a person who took classes, but I'm still pretty proud of myself.
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what? why would you purposely not use references? that's only hindering you from improving.
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It's not that I purposefully stay away from them, I just don't find much need for them.
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Oh and I forgot: doing only in school is not enough, you gotta love it too and do it in your free time, which means basically teaching yourself.
AND NOT TO BE LAZY is probably the biggest point.
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Even if you took classes, it has to be in you, that ability, to notice things, and to be able to put them on 2D medium. School is not everything.
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Love this stamp 
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Never took a class.
I learned from observation and other artists I have been exposed to- I think every artist should learn this way
but you CAN ask for help
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Sometimes I regret it, though.
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DAMN STRAIGHT!!!! I have been taking art in classes all my life - most of i any ways - and I dont learn anything new!!!! SELF TAUGHT!!!
I went from stick people, to bubble people, to retarded I don't knows, to my current style today!!! All school ever taught me was to colour in between the lines.... and I would have figured it out eventually...
TALK ABOUT AWSOME!!!! 
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I HATE my art class.
Here's an example:
"Today we will be drawing windows, children!"
*20 minutes later when no one can follow him*
"ASDFGH YOU CAN GIVE ME ONE GOOD WINDOW OR YOU CAN GIVE ME GARBAGE! ASDFG!"
Its freaking absurd.
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I agree that some things you cant learn from classes.I prefer to learn myself as well.
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AYE!
I draw before I step on my first school.
STICK FIGURES FTW!
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Self taught since elementary school!
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I have been taught in elementary school, middle, and high, but now I continue on my own time.
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This is so me. Ilove the stamp.
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self taught photographer and creative writer...
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I saw my sister draw a unicorn eating a lion..o_o And that's when it all began!
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...And I don't think art school isn't happening for me: I want to be a math teacher... or chef! XD
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ILU.
I am mostly self-taught. And art class does indeed suck a lot.
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You! Why aren't you drawing this greek head no one cares about for the 54th time! I said 54, not 53!!
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EXACTLY. This is how my art teacher spazzes out at me right now.
He also has stripped me of any social life in that class.... OH WAIT. Today was the end of the semester. TAKE THAT.
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Same as me, just that the subject is geography xD. My art teacher was such a nub. Fortunately, I'm on summer holidays *epic pose*
Sometimes I thought he had some kind of fetish involving greek heads and vector-like shadows.
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i went from a-5-year-old-drew-this looking sketches to what i do now in less than a year xD SELF-TAUGHT FTW
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i don't see why quite a lot of the comments make art school out to be this torture chamber that everyone going to secretly hates, and that the only thing art students learn is landscapes and still lifes o_o im guessing everyone's just basing it off those dinky elective classes they had in middle school and high school but i will tell you for a fact real art classes and art schools do not run the same way.
:/ unfortunate everyone seems to have this generalization, because i love going to an art school and no one there "hates it" or thinks its "useless".
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Self taught!
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And therefor, not very good >3<
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Books don't really help...
So I teach myself =/
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And proud!
I went from stick figures to my current style over three years of hard work, with nobody but myself, deviantart and the occasional anatomy book giving me any help.
High school art class isn't very good for people who like to draw people and animals. It's all landscape, still life and learning about different media. Your style has to develp on your own sometimes, and I like the way mine is turning out. Still a work in progress, though XD
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