I know *exactly* what you mean. I'm going through the exact same thing too. I'm only fifteen but everyone expacts me to have my whole future mapped out. I'd love to go to art school (in Glasgow) but I don't think I'm good enough. I swing between "I'd be fine" to "I'd fail horribly and forget how to draw one day then end up working in McDonalds". Then I'd like to be a psychologist or a journalist or a tight rope walker or I have no idea. It's scary we have to choose what we'll do for forty-ish years already.
I've been thinking about Glasgow too. I mean I was thinking until I remembered that I don't like Glasgow. I've now narrowed down possible universities to ones by the sea, preferably on the west coast of England or Wales. Personally I don't think you'd have anything to worry about at art school, you're brilliant at drawing. If I did art I'd be more scared about the people. I mean, art students always seems to be extraspecially cooler-than-you and that's just unfair. If I did art it'd be a good excuse to not go out and get a job and just paint for a good three years (or four) and what's wrong with that?
Thanks - if I could convince the wee voice in my head that tells me I have no talent, I'd be all set. Do you know what you'd do if you went to art school?
But Glasgow is great! Have you been to the West End? It's lovely. And friendly. You just avoid the not so friendly places. I hear the Glasweigans are friendlier than the Edinburgh..ians.. And the art school is one of the best in Europe! And it's designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh - the library and, well, everything is amazing. Apparently, according to my neighbour, the illustrator and this jewellery making teacher-wifey the people are friendly and ther isn't the whole snobby elitist thing. I don't know if I believe her, but she said it so convincingly - maybe their coolnesss will rub off on us. I'm trying to think of other things to sway your opinion of Glasgow.... eh.... the Botanic gardens are beautiful. I go there almost every month to take pictures - you'd love the picture taking possibilities. The modern art gallery is fairly crap, but the older one is great. And...yeah.
It's unfair, isn't it? We're at that stage where we need guidance but we don't want too much for fear that we'll lose our independance and be pushed into something we don't want to do. I have my GCSEs in like...a month or something, perhaps less than. I've done no revision and I am starting to secretly panic. I'm going into Sixth Form next year to do A Levels: French, English Lit, Theatre Studies and Product Design. After that I have no idea what I want to do. I might want to take a year out, but is that wise to throw away a whole year of my life and forget everything? Perhaps I'll want to work for a bit, but will it be to my disadvantage if I go to Uni a year later?? When I was a little girl I went through hundreds of phases of wanting to 'be' different things: Ballerina, Writer, Artist, Restaurant Owner, Interior Designer, Architecht, Argaeologist, Fashion Designer...I still don't really know what I want to do, but I think something to do with Designing stuff
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I probably won't be near you.. :( I've narrowed it down to towns which are smallish, near the sea and on the west coast. But still if you were to come see me there wouldn't be the boat trip.
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Personally I don't think you'd have anything to worry about at art school, you're brilliant at drawing. If I did art I'd be more scared about the people. I mean, art students always seems to be extraspecially cooler-than-you and that's just unfair.
If I did art it'd be a good excuse to not go out and get a job and just paint for a good three years (or four) and what's wrong with that?
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But Glasgow is great! Have you been to the West End? It's lovely. And friendly. You just avoid the not so friendly places. I hear the Glasweigans are friendlier than the Edinburgh..ians.. And the art school is one of the best in Europe! And it's designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh - the library and, well, everything is amazing. Apparently, according to my neighbour, the illustrator and this jewellery making teacher-wifey the people are friendly and ther isn't the whole snobby elitist thing. I don't know if I believe her, but she said it so convincingly - maybe their coolnesss will rub off on us. I'm trying to think of other things to sway your opinion of Glasgow.... eh.... the Botanic gardens are beautiful. I go there almost every month to take pictures - you'd love the picture taking possibilities. The modern art gallery is fairly crap, but the older one is great. And...yeah.
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