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17 years ago
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THE PEOPLE ON THE INTERNETS STILL NEED ATTENTIONS. HELLO.
Okay. I'm happy with all of my art freaking out-ness. I'm happy with my progress. I'd like to make more progress, but whatevs. I only get two or three days a week to work on art and I'm trying to make them count. I hate my job and I don't want to do it forever. Maybe one day I can do art instead.
But probably not :)
Man, sometimes I think, what if I could have afforded to go to art school? That would have been cool. I wanted to go really badly, but I was a fucking mess in high school and for several years afterward, so maybe it just wasn't in the cards no matter what. This is pretty much it.
I've finally got a nice work space at home, and I'm still working on getting it where I want it, but now I have a great desk, a TV, an awesome orange couch, and a surround sound system, so I can blast some NIN or something when my upstairs neighbor decides to wake up at 9 am on Sunday morning and bump the salsa music.
I can't wait. I will win the war of the speakers, hands down. After all, I have death metal and powernoise as my WMDs.
Okay. I'm happy with all of my art freaking out-ness. I'm happy with my progress. I'd like to make more progress, but whatevs. I only get two or three days a week to work on art and I'm trying to make them count. I hate my job and I don't want to do it forever. Maybe one day I can do art instead.
But probably not :)
Man, sometimes I think, what if I could have afforded to go to art school? That would have been cool. I wanted to go really badly, but I was a fucking mess in high school and for several years afterward, so maybe it just wasn't in the cards no matter what. This is pretty much it.
I've finally got a nice work space at home, and I'm still working on getting it where I want it, but now I have a great desk, a TV, an awesome orange couch, and a surround sound system, so I can blast some NIN or something when my upstairs neighbor decides to wake up at 9 am on Sunday morning and bump the salsa music.
I can't wait. I will win the war of the speakers, hands down. After all, I have death metal and powernoise as my WMDs.
are you serious?? you can't pay?? me either!!
seriously!1 i'm a mess in high school!1 i should have finished this year.. but i failed in grade eight.. so NEXT year is my third year AND i have to go into a fourth year.. and there were aloot of drugs involved in the past** huggs** it's lying there you can hug back if you wantt to lol*
i love nine inch nails : } korn.. orgy.. : } you know i'm sure.
also i'd love to see a picture of the couch and the rest of the place.
and your neighbor?? must be a jerk me and my mom had one like that.. stomped like an elephant when she walked.. lol..
blast some slipknot and korn and orgy and nin.. as you already said.
that upstairs neighbor will never know what hit them lol
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Yeah, art school is for rich people or people with parents who care. It is not for the likes of me. I don't know what your situation is, either, but shit. That shit is expensive. And artists don't really make a lot of money, right?
It's a RACKET, I TELLS YA!
Also, I'm pretty sure I just heard a pin drop. That's usually tough with the sound of all the PORN on this website...
been to art school - big disappointment.I went to like get better at drawing and be taught how to express my ideas better...and all the "best" work I did was out of class for myself. The classes I benefited most from were Life Drawing and such, which my granny takes a class just like for $25 a week held at the town community building. *sigh* So I paid extra for a room, crappy roommates (cept a few) and shitty food.
Also, art schools have arty snobs - they're like those elite-ist mac users but emo and complain that no one can get their art cause its so soul- whatever. pain in the ass, texting through my critic but flipping out if I say "hey your light source is off". But I'm old and bitter :P
But really I have found half the stuff I learned online or in cheap art books. You're really doing fine on your own, the only diff would be maybe more variety in the styles of those who comment and possibly a how-to-promote yourself class (btw, I could make copies of mine for you, it was mostly a handouts course with buying business cards) and my teacher got his illustrations in Rolling Stone Mag & Time.
*jabber jabber jabber*
Well, I didn't know what to expect from going to art school. I actually applied to some but I couldn't afford the application fees :/
I feel like I'm really off base with a lot of stuff that I could have learned in school, but since I didn't go, fuck it. I'm learning now. Like, my light source is off all the time :)
What's this how to promote yourself thing all about?
Well if you're feeling like you need help with light sources and figure stuff, my teachers were fans of Vilppu, and his books should cover that stuff. Do you really feel like having to pay back loans when you could buy the books for far cheaper? I;ve got $28,000 + $30,000 to pay back over...I dunno how long, and I wish I just did what the gran is doing for far cheaper - those kinda classes are usually taught by artists, and you can get the same level of advice
A friend of mine recommended life drawing classes, I just have to go. They're from 10-20 bucks a session locally, I just need to find the right place. I might be able to get friends to get together and just model for each other, but I know some art models, so we might be able to get people to model for us.
And I could start my own life drawing class :)
God, I think they'd kill me @_@
*licks knife, all Brock Sampson like*
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