HI One thing I need to add. Learning from people closer in skill to you can have more value than someone vastly ahead in skill. This is because they are closer to experiencing what they went through to get to where they are. The expert has already passed that and is working on something else.
I always found it helpful to set the goal for what I'm doing as time oriented, rather than product oriented. If instead of saying "I will finish the eyes today", the goal is "I will spend 1 hour drawing these eyes." Even if I finish the eyes to something I find happy, I will continue drawing something else with eyes so I will have always met my goal. It's always nice to leave of of a 100% completed goal with no product, then a 0.06% completed goal with no product.
Absolutely! When I was at Art School we had weekly Crit sessions as well as just generally always bouncing around helping each other. But, this doesn't mean you can't find feedback from others while being self taught! There are also ways to give yourself critique. Active feedback definitely exists! In areas where you can judge objective accuracy - like perspective or proportion, you can always find creative ways to critique yourself.
Don't think you can call yourself self taught when you use youtube online materials. Just because you don't go to art school, doesn't mean you're self taught.
You can use that definition of self taught, but it's your own. Autodidact is just the greek translation of self teaching, it does not mean "to use no outside resources to learn" it means to learn without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).
@@mykellederickpalad7883 While I can see what you're saying, and you’re right when you say that they're essentially online classes, you have to consider that a course is what we pay for when it comes to art school. And, as you already know, they're made up of more than several classes containing different methods and topics. That's a huge difference in comparison to sitting down at home, opening RU-vid and choosing an erray of videos that might only give you very limited information that allows you to scratch just the surface of, let's say, anatomy. The legs? Arms? Eyes? Muscle placement and bone structure? As a beginner, it's overwhelming and difficult to know where to start and how to conduct the way you study as well as practice, not to mention- effectively. There's only you, the student, and that person's video you're watching that doesn't know who you are and can't exactly push you in the right direction like a teacher and mentor would. So, I mean, in the end, you are self-taught because the free resources you have would still mean nothing if you don't know how to understand any of it. You're teaching your own self how to do that and I think that should be validated (as a self-taught artist). :)
