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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Swirling_Insanity on 2025-03-23 20:12:03+00:00.

I am in college and studying for my extended diploma in art and design. I have a teacher this year who is all about conceptual art and has never drawn a day in her life. To keep this short I will just list the things she had done before: told me that my drawings are just copies and not real art, told me that “anime” isn’t art and I need to be more realistic, told my class to use AI art, told me that my portfolio for University was not enough of me and to remove some of my best work. To put it lightly, this woman gets on my nerves.

We were doing an industry linked project with a local business during our practice project before our final major. She had arranged a visit for the head of the company to come and see our artwork as we where in lesson. She spent 3/4 of an our looking at 2 people’s work in specific (there is 9 of us in that class) and then eventually came over to me and my friends.

We all specialize in character creation and concept art, looking at a lot of different animation and cartoons and using those styles. She brought over this woman and said “These are our character creators, they all really like anime but we’re trying to get them to move away from that and look at some real art”. We were shocked that she would just discredit our work in front of the woman who employed us to do work for her business.

I am now on our final project, she had told me multiple times on our previous project that " You can’t just do research on things you like, you need to broaden your research" so I decided to do just that. I made an entire research page on conceptual art and went into detail discussing an artists themes and exploring the style of her work and saying how to me it doesn’t make sence and that I don’t have the same love for it as it seems illogical. I used a lot of points to back up my views and made sure that she couldn’t turn it against me. We are also being taken on a trip to a conceptual art gallery that I will be doing the exact same with. She spent the first half of this year discrediting all my hard work and style, so now I will discredit hers.

She has seen the research page but didn’t even bother to properly read it, but she said how she likes that I’ve put myself more open to look at different artists. She had seen how I had spoken about it in her brief look over my work and quickly moved onto the next table. Completely forgetting to look at the others work on my table but they didn’t care and didn’t want to talk to her anyway. I hope she knows how much we all don’t like her way of teaching.