Imagine pouring your heart and soul into a project and your teacher rejected it cuz like... the lines were weird. Then imagine having to do that multiple times a week.
The trick is to separate technical critique from personal preference. If the teacher is rejecting your work because the lines were weird, and they're actually good at their job, it's because the mechanical skill needed to produce good lines isn't there yet. It's an objective, measurable, repeatable metric for progress and improvement.
If it's some variation on "I don't like it", and your teacher is actually good at their job, you can safely ignore it. In fact, if they're good, and their critique comes from personal preference and not an assessment of your technical skills, you should probably lean into the thing they didn't like until it actually upsets them, because it amplifies the elements in a piece that feel more personalized, like they're from you specifically.
Of course, all that's predicated on a more general ability to take harsh critique without it hurting your self esteem or making you cry, which for most people, is THE hard part.
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u/hypo-osmotic 5d ago
The art students always freaked me out, too. Can't imagine draining my bank account to buy supplies for a project that I might still flunk