I AM FRUSTRATED (I need to talk about this with someone)
5yr
Ruth Salmun
I'm not only expecting Stan and Marshal to answer, thinking about this has made me a bit depressed. I don't know if someone can relate?
@Stan Prokopenko @Marshall Vandruff
So, I sent this message to the Proko email a few weeks ago (my grammar sucks, I'm not a native English speaker, sorry for the mistakes) along with the images I attached, and I believe this is how I got to the beta tester program:
Hi, my name is Ruth, I haven’t finished the anatomy course because I took a year to relearn my whole foundation and I’m finally back to studying anatomy once more. I really want to get some feedback, I made a lot of progress this year, but I choose a difficult pose. I’m taking a Michael Hampton’s course as well as Proko’s, and I’m going to take a CGMA
course as well, so my technique comes from various masters including proko and my mentor, but in the end, I developed it in my own technique overall, so I’m not really following a step by step. I’ve also watche a series of educational videos about anatomy including dissections’, I don’t dare say I have medical knowledge, but I have researched a lot and was oriented thanks to my mentor. I’m still in college but started freelancing to pay some of the new courses on my own, and even mentor some people a bit. I really really really want Stan and Marshall to give me feedback, I admire them and worked so
hard that it would mean the world to me.
So, first, Stan and Marshall, I am now relying my pleading message to you. As to why I'm frustrated: The proko Facebook page is of no help at all, all the past freaking year has been really hard, I've been working my ass all 2020 with at least 8 weekly hours of perspective plus other foundation (20 to 36 hours per week, plus school), I finally reached the point where I even started earning money for my drawings. If it weren’t thanks to a faithful encounter with my mentor I would still be stuck, I've been working really hard since 2019, but this past year has been my breakthrough. I've cried so much and put so much effort that I almost hurt my back and hands, now I need to do hand exercises every hour while I'm drawing. I'm also sick and tired of people that will constantly invalidate my progress and knowledge juat because I'm using digital tools, even if I'm not asking for such opinions. Really, who asked you, I don't care if you dont like my medium! They will adress me as if I'm some little girl and they are the grown ups. I can't even begin describing how upsetting this is. A teacher I admired disregarded all my effort and progress because of this as well. People at school will utterly ignore me in regards of my work, I feel like sometimes I cahe myself in this horrible toxic environment. Good things have also happened, plenty of then. But I am so tired and heartbroken by how progressing has led me to getting this response from people (I have also met amazing people, but fewer), sometimes really hurting me. I've worked really hard, and I'm saying all of this, first because it has been really hard and frustrating, second:
Please, STAN and MARSHALL, I'm just bothering you this once, I know you can't give your attention to thousands of users, but just this once, I really want feedback from 2 artists I admire. I know it's not a big deal what I have to show, I'm still on foundation stage, I added a mosquito drawing because it's a good example of my rendering skill and if you could give me feedback on that as well, I would be delighted. So please, just indulge in my request this once. I'm not adding my previous drawings so that the feedback won't be biased towards my progress but only focused on my actual skills nowadays.
