How can I impress my art teacher with a drawing or painting?

Answer 1

Personally, I don't feel that one should draw/paint just to impress. You should do it for your own joy. If there's one thing I noticed about art teachers, it's that they love to see students enjoy doing art rather than see them produce good art.

However, since that's not what you're asking, I'll try to provide some advice which you may (or may not) take into consideration.
Teachers like to see when students use the skills they learn. Try to create a piece that reflects all that you learned for the year. Use all of the design principles that you know of and make a nice piece to show off.

Another method(though not one reccommended) is to find out who your teacher's favorite artist(s) is/are. Try to make a piece that shares some similiarities to that artist. This seems to impress the teachers greatly for some reason. However, in my opinion, by doing so, you would be showing a lack of creativity. My animal drawings, for example, have been compared to this animal artist named Monroe something. I can't even bother to remember the artist's name. Though it may be taken as a compliment, it kind of makes me think, "Oh geez, I don't wanna be like someone else!" So think about it. Do you just want to impress you teacher? If you want to draw/paint something not just for your teacher, but for yourself as well, I think this won't be a good method.

Well, if anything, there's always abstract art! Abstract paintings tend to look really nice, and it'll be a good start if you wish to impress your teacher with something simple. If you wish to impress her with something complex, however, then you could go for a complex abstract drawing! Or, you could go for realism. The problem with realism, though, is that if you're aiming to impress, then the drawing/painting better be photo-realistic. If not, then umm... Well, it has to be pretty darn good.

If abstract or realistic art seems too much of a bore, then try something sureal. You could always paint things as you see them and not how they are in real life. For example, say you have a tremendous fear of umm... Pencils! Eh whatever, let's just use that as an example. If you have a big fear of pencils, then make something expressing that fear. Why do you fear it? Do you sometimes think of it and see something totally different? Ask yourself these questions as you paint/draw. You'll be sure to get an art piece that leads the viewer thinking, "hmm, I wonder what the message behind this piece was." It's always good to make an art piece that leaves the viewer thinking. Something that outright tells you what the meaning behind it was, tends to be quite a bore.

Well, good luck!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

In all honesty ther really are very few poeple that can create Artworks that have originality and form style and vision. Even the professionals are not always really creating, to everybodys eyes, things that could be clased as that good, even though they seem to impress the public in general. Even if you do come up with stunning originality (very rare) it could be that life stops you from really showing what you can do and the public might not know what you have got to offer. What you could do is wait until you are older and then hope you develope a real originality and vision in your work.
From a personal view I think if someone has got something to offer (extremely rare) it is often drowned out in endless attitude and enpty showing off that seems to exist now.

Answer 4

Try pulling from concepts that you learned (that your teacher taught to you) in class and apply them to a drawing or painting. Don't try too hard, just let the art take it's course.

Answer 5

Art is about expression. Show your teacher that you put yourself into your art. If you can give your teacher a great explanation of what the art means to you and what it is all about then I think that would be impressive.

Answer 6

Draw your teacher!
They would be impressed and honored!

Answer 7

listen really carefully to what they've taught you in lessons & put that into your picture
& maybe you could copy or do something in the style of an artist they like

Answer 8

Try an unusual perspective like extreme perspective, bird's-eye view, frog's perspective, or fish-eye distortion.

Answer 9

draw or paint a really good picture, duh. this has to be like a trick question or somthing right? If not, you need to try very hard to get out of special ed.

Answer 10

Make it angsty and bloody and.... umm... and NAKED!!!! original.... xD