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Published: 2008-04-27 10:23:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 50069; Favourites: 6356; Downloads: 245
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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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aliciaxitachi
I'm self-taught too. In fact, I'm the only good artist in my family. I draw better when I'm looking at what I'm drawing. I do learn from my art classes, but I haven't been able to take them as often as I'd like, and I can't get a class that teaches me Photoshop until next year. I don't want to wait until next year to upload my art to DA. I mainly rely on technique books and observation, and I'm looking up Photoshop tutorials online.
This will be a fine addition to my stamp collection!
that's exactally like me!
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I taught myself to draw; before I went to art classes, but I didn't learn anything useful except for tracing. >.>
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Mind if I make an alternate color? 
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I've been drawing since I could hold a crayon.
I've only ever been in one art "class", in third grade, and I hated it so I don't take any more art classes. I figure if I want to learn how to do something, I can figure it out
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I taught myself how to draw as well. Sure, I take advice from people about my art, but I didn't go to any art classes to teach me how to draw.
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Last time I went to art class, it was in middle school, and all the kids were potheads, pregnant, or both. 
Anyway, love the stamp very, very much!
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well.. i learned how to draw myself.. before i had an artclass
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especialy when your parents think you got your art skills from them ...thats really annoying
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( and other times art class can't be tolerated. X3 )
AINT THAT THE TRUTH! D:<
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I think it's fine for people to be self-taught, but if they are looking into a career in art, they really need to take lessons and learn the basics. That will take you far.
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I'm kinda like that as well.
I have art class in my school. But I actually HATE it. There are so many rude students and many students doing it for the wrong reasons. And there is a lot of stress as well. Damn, they give WAY too much homework!
I did go to a Learn To Draw Manga workshop though. And it was for free which I really loved. And I actually learned stuff. I learned how to do good anatomy there! I thank the workshop!
But I really HATE the art class in my school. I would much rather teach myself art.
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I feel your pain.
I'm going into studio in art next year at school, but Iv'e asked around and there are WAY to many people who are taking it just for that easy A.
It frustrates me because people get the wrong impression about us who actually do care, thinking we just don't want to work hard. Like my friend's dad, for instance,made her sign up for music theory instead of art, because he thought it was just an easy A. (but shes much better at music, so she's getting over it).
I plan on working very hard in class and earning it because I like art, not like half the kids, who I am pretty sure will spend the time goofing off.
In times like that all you can really do is remember that when you go to college you will have the credits you need if you go for art school, and the people who are there for the easy A and not the art will have to deal with the fact that they didn't take buisness theory instead when they try to apply for a buisness college..
Sorry if I got off topic, i got angry there for a minute.
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Awww.
I'm glad someone else knows about my situation
I find it really annoying too. I think that people should just choose the subject they like best, instead of just to get an easy A.
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Me too.
Isn't that the point of high school?
Get credits to do something you like when you graduate?
I hate it when people waste their time for an easy A, but hey, their loss.
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I'm self taught and I think that is probably the best, but not the only way tp learn.. I'm sorry, I don't want to sound arrogant and that kinda came out as such...
Its just that I found my own style and what learning techniques work best for me, and I like the way I did it all. THough I believe you should not pass up the opportunity to take a real art class. You take what you learn there and integrate it into your own style, what I am looking forward to doing in studio in art next year.
As long as you do learn, it dosent really matter how...
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Down with art classes :0 !
I hate 'em art classes. They're practically useless. People are really better off learning how to draw themselves
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I taught mahself at age 7 or so. :] Art class only taught me "LINES ARE WHAT MAKE UP ART. VALUE IS BLAH BLAH BLAH. THIS IS A VANISHING POINT OMG."
....then again, there isn't much that middle school art can teach you. 
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People always ask me, "Who taught you how to draw?" And I mean, people ask me this several times. I basically just tell them that I taught myself - a self-taught drawer. I did, at one point, beg for someone to teach me how to draw, but I ultimately learned that the only way I would learn is if I did it on a regular basis and without someone leaning over my shoulder directing me.
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Self taught here. Love this stamp it's...PINK. Even better
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yus, i am a self-taught artist >8D
my ap art class(and my other art class) doesn't really help with my art whatsoever(except with expirementing with different media).
not only that, but my teacher only prefers traditional media and realism(no anime, photography, etc "photography isn't art!" is what she says) so she's definetely not any help.
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I take pride in the fact that I'm self-taught, but I'm not arrogant about it. I would kill to go to an actual art college. (I'm hoping to apply to one in the near future, wish me luck!)
I wasn't accepted into my high school's Commercial Art class (I went to a tech school) because all I drew (and still draw) is anime, the teachers didn't like me, and they also said I didn't show any potential.
Maybe that's why my friends in that class always came to me for help with Photoshop instead of asking their teachers.
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Love this stamp! I'm self taught, too!
I took art classes a few times but it was so useless and boring... They didn't show how to draw people/figures/animals, or whatever, it was just 3D shapes and shading effects. I hated it.
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The one year I tried to take art in high school, my teacher told me that anime wasn't an art style (and wouldn't let me draw it). So I never took it again .___<
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I taught myself to draw completely on my own ever since I was 2, and I still haven't taken an art class yet, nonetheless I have progressed at my own pace and I will continue to do so, for as long as I can ^^
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Being a self taught artist is nice and all , but i personally find that people who advertise this "self taughtness" is arrogant/vain. Just because we are self taught does not mean we are any more significant than others. Not saying that all people are like that, but ive noticed quite a few use this fact as something to show off.
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Self-taught artists ftw!
Guh. I had art classes this year, but they only taught about the HISTORY of art, and the terms for what people do in art. =n=' (It's kind of funny, though. At the beginning of the class, everyone had a pretest to test what they did or did not know. There were 55 questions. I got 50 right. Most of them were common sense, but I heard kids saying, "I missed 20. D':" and such. WTF.
Showing off how many I got right WAS fun, though.)
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I was begining to think that I was the only one. X3
I've always drawn, I didn't just, pick up a pencil one day and I had talent. That's why I hate when people ask me to teach them how to draw. I taught myself, therefor you can too.
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I agree with your last paragraph there.
THat pisses me off, because I feel like they need to know that nobody can teach them to pick up a pencil and draw well, as I certainly did not.
I give them a few tips, and then tell them that all they can really do is practice, and send them on their way. And if they don't believe me, I get angrier... it feels like theyr'e not acknowledging the years of hard work I put in to my art..
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So true. 
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This stamp is awesome, and yes, Art class never does really help with my artworks xD;
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Yaay! I like this stamp 8D
it gets annoying...when people are all li,ke, "OH WHO TAUGHT YOU HOW TO COLOUR?"
n im like...me? :'D
N THEY ARE ALL
OH COOL, SO WHICH SCHOOL TAUGHT YOU?
...
lol Dx <3333
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Well. I took a trimester of art once in 7th grade. I hated that class so much. XD I'm taking a Graphic Design class now, which I LOVE TO DEATH. My teacher is AMAZING and I've learned a LOT (mostly about Photoshop and composition of art, and stuffs) from her. So, I'm not ENTIRELY self-taught, but my drawing skills I pretty much developed on my own, inspired by other artists. 8)
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You just don't know how many people at my school ask me how I draw...and what do I draw.
Like, sometimes they can't see why there is one eye because theres HAIR over it.
aAgh, I'm rambling...but this stamp is awesome.
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Yeah, I'm a self-taught artist. :3 I've been drawing since I was, I dunno...around 3 years old? Then I just taught myself to get better...I only pick up a few useful techniques from art classes, the rest I just learn by myself. <3
Since I don't have a subby, I'll just fave this stamp instead for now. ^^
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YES!!! finally a stamp i can completely relate to!
People always ask me where i learned to draw, and i always tell them i've never taken any art classes in my entire life(until 8th grade but i already knew how to do everything we did.XD)
im blabbing, sorry.DX
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Yay for stamps. <3 I love this one, how it is set up. -faves-
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I almost always failed art class in high school because I never followed instructions.
I made art with my own creative twist, which to my surprise, did not fit into the criteria.
Love the stamp.
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Woo hoo!
I'm self taught....All thanks to Inuyasha XP
Me when I was five: Wow...That looks cool!
Then I taught myself to draw Inuyasha then I developed my own art style.
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wee!!! I'm a self taught too!! nobody in my house knows what a canon proportion means and I knew it since I was 9 years old (reading old books of art)
is always good to have a balance, cause art classes ( and I mean the REAL art classes where you draw naked figures) also makes you see the negative and positive of your style, and how can you improve it.
I SHALL COLLECT THIS STAMP AND WAIT TILL I HAVE A REAL SUBSCRIPTION!
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Hee hee agreed.
I taught myself most certainly because my art teachers made up practically trace things and here is no art school for me yet. ^_^;
*faved*
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does it count if I used some tutorials?
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people used to ask me if i'd 'teach them how o draw' and I'm like... it works better if you teach yourself!
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