Questioning the teacher

For many of us, our qualms about our own drawing skills come from lessons about art (and who’s allowed to make it) that we were taught as we approached adulthood. For example, Cathy has a friend who was told he was a poor artist by his schoolteacher simply on the basis of how he’d drawn a hand. Of course that really knocked the wind out of him, and it’s hard for him to see why he should risk drawing as an adult. Was the teacher right? Or should we be thinking differently about everyone’s ability and permission to draw? This is how Scriberia’s founders Dan and Chris responded to the story of Cathy’s friend.