What’s a Critique? · Painting for Drawing Dropouts

Michelle Cyr

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What’s a Critique?

I can tell you that it isn’t that shit that Ms Grimes did to me in my college art classes. 😡

A critique does NOT include public humiliation or beating yourself up.

It is simply a way to evaluate the painting and decide what to do next.

I ALWAYS critique my own work in between every layer of paint.

I try HARD not to mentally do it during the painting process however.

That is when I repeat the statement “Trust the Process”.

Here are the questions I ask.

What is one thing that you like about what you see?
Is the emotion being communicated? (In this case, calm, peaceful, relaxed and happy.)
Are proportions believable? (Is the drawing correct?)
Compare the reference and painting. Where do you see the biggest color difference?
Are the VALUES correct? (How dark or light something is.)
What is one thing that you would change?

Can you answer these questions for me?

Ps - there is no right or wrong answer here. This is simply an exercise of evaluation and interpretation. Everyone has a unique and different perspective and it’s SUPER important to embrace that.

Professional artists don’t paint perfect paintings. They paint, evaluate, make changes and keep going.

PREMIUM MEMBERS - see me whole critique uploaded to the classroom.

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What’s a Critique?