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@TheKakama: I think your work keeps improving dude. Very nice. Are you self taught or are you in art classes? Your going to melt my brain if you say self taught

Brain melt time: I'm self taught.
Although I DID attend art class tuition (which I stopped when I was 9), it was for pastel colours and paints, which taught me I suck at those stuff, and put me off drawing in colour for 5 years.

And I'm "attending" art classes, although that basically means I have to teach myself theory then do some exam (there is no art teacher because they only teach art for certain classes, and since I'm in Pure Science they don't teach art classes for me).
In fact, I only met the art teacher for about a minute, and all she said was I had to buy some book, and that my homework for the year was to draw stuff.

Nice homework

I know.Nice subject,art.XD

Agreed.

That's pretty cool man. I guess it shouldn't surprise me. My art classes in college were very "classical," so I learned a very intense structural system for drawing from observation, but in other ways it was so stressful that I lost a lot of control and inventiveness. I have too much expectation form my drawing abilities now, and it actually has stagnated some of my ability and desire to draw. Yet it has made me who I am, so I can't really be to frustrated. X) I learned to think very critically and structurally in a philosophical way largely because of those drawing exercises.

It's creativity and experience. You can't teach that.

That's very true

Right. The structure they taught me was a tool. The problem is that they... actually one teacher in particular, did so in a very stifling way. He was the best I've seen at this tool, but he was also a huge jerk. You can foster creativity and the capacity to observe, and you can teach a system of observation. But in the end, if your just teaching a system without fostering creativity, and are not letting experience inform the system, you end up with something like Bob Ross: an empty system. Zhi... my teacher... was a bit too harsh for it to be said that he fostered creativity. He did in word, (edit: and in his own work) but not in deed.

Of course, the biggest thing preventing creativity in my life right now is having the time for it.

Interesting... he has a wikipedia page. If your interested, try a google search for Zhi Lin, and do an image search too.

Edit:

Your art teacher is famous 0_o?
Cool.

And you're right, of course.This issue also happens in music and stuff like that too.

Famousish. Regional fame perhaps. His work definitely merits some level of fame.