ArtUp GR 1

Interviews

0) What is your experience in painting?
1) Do you want to learn to draw a new style?
2) If so, what is holding back?
3) How many hours a week you would have been ready to spend on learning?
4) Would you like to receive the training feedback from human or a computer?
5) Would you like to share drawings with other artists?

0) Art school almost 15 years ago, and some experience
1) If I like drawings made in this style
2) Time
3) A couple of hours a day
4) Human
5) With the artists - no, friends - yes

0) Experience ... Hmm, about 7 years
1) Yes, try different styles, always interesting
2) Usually have no time, because it is faster and easier to draw something in known styles
3) Two or three hours every day, if I had time. So at least half an hour a day, preferably more
4) Constructive opinion of another person - that's cool, but how can the computer evaluate the work adequately - I do not know, but I would like to see
5) Well, yes, because it is easier to get an objective opinion and advice from other artists, and recognition of your coolness by other artists - it's great.

0) 10 years experience in drawing
1) fun
2) 5hours
3) tempered by what I'm an architect and design itself is almost not used in creative concept.
4) Feedback from the computer? what are you thinking about? hardly. From person possible, but the opinion about art is extremely subjective. not from each person is ready to accept criticism. only if I respect creativity critics.
5) I do not know.

Survey

We made a survey, 48 people passed it.

About 1/3 of respondents consider themselves as having good drawing skills.

About 2/3 respondents want to learn a new style of drawing. The distribution of time which they are ready to spend on this is the following:

The results show that most of people are ready to spend at least one hour a week studying drawing. We tried to allocate barriers of learning new styles of drawing. The survey showed the following:

The most popular obstacles are lack of self-motivation and that private classes with professionals are very expensive.

User Classes

• Artists 
  • not professionals 
  • are able to draw in at least one of the styles
  • want to study how to draw in either one of the new styles
  • or to study how to draw like their favorite artist
• Characteristics
  • People who
    • can draw pretty well
    • don't want or have no opportunity to spend a lot of time on studying
    • probably bored reading a lot of information before getting to work
    • have no money for paying for expensive lessons
    • or have no time to go on this lessons
    • really want to study new drawing technique
    • or dreaming about drawing like his favorite artist

Needs & Goals

• Create interactive way of learning new drawing technique which:
  • will be really interesting to use (which means no boring readings, no boring understanding)
  • will be convenient to use
  • will allow to draw on a paper directly without trying to draw on web-site or in tablet while studying lessons
  • will provide precise and objective feedback