A slightly early post today, but this came to me while I was doing some artwork, and I realised some things linked.
In Bible School (where they train Christian pastors and theologians), there’s this understanding that you only get corrected for your sermons and teachings then. There are very few people who would come up to you after a church service and tell you how well or badly you did in your sermon, and where you could improve on. Most people would tell you everything was great, and they would try to make sense of it for themselves. The benefit of the doubt would be given for the pastor or bible teacher, because thye knew better. But in any case, very few people would correct you. Therefore, it was key to learn as much as you can in bible school, testing things out, being willing to be corrected, because there might not be another time after.
I find a similar situation in art, but in reverse.
In art, you go through a bunch of training, and personally for me, I was told art school was the best time to fail. Because after art school, if you failed it would just lose a lot of money and contracts. And the opposite effect it would have on people: everyone would tell you where you could improve on. Everyone would tell you what sucks, and what more could be done where, and honestly, not many even went to art school. But they would still dispense information freely.
Therefore, in art school, you might get critiqued, but at least your teacher is hoping you could improve in certain ways.
Be kind to the artists, please.
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