Oh yaaay! School! When is your first day? Did it already start? Are you going to carry around one of those big flappy portfolios? And tool boxes filled with paint brushes and glitter and elbow macaroni (or whatever artists put in them)? And stand outside of the art buildings smoking cigarettes and glaring at people? And weeping, on the inside??? I AM WEEPING ON THE INSIDE RIGHT NOW!! What a coincidence.
Seriously, though, I was totally frustrated for like 3 years, since most of the classes I was taking had nothing to do with computers, and the computer science classes were horrible, and I made no friends, and sdlkfjsdl but art school is probably a lot more fun. Especially the people. I am pretty much surrounded by a sea of indian/chinese/eastern european men, and also iMacs.
Most people started two weeks ago, but somehow I was permitted to be late. I carried around a lot of things proper persons wouldn't already, so a couple fancy pencils and a roll of tape don't make much difference. However, the giant paper is certainly a change, because that doesn't fit into the bag I already have. I will need to get a bigger bag.
The people, ehhh, I don't know about them. So much time has passed since I've been normal that I don't even remember what it's like to make friends. I don't know that I ever really knew. Typically, what few there have been came to me, and it will be hard to stand out when everyone dresses like a recluse and lugs huge sacks of paper around.
Maybe not Bat-Man, but you CAN draw The Orange Atom, Captain Smashelberry, Madame Omega Frootloop and D. Destructo. Those codices should be called "I can draw non-published public domain goofs wearing tight clothing who may or may not have interesting skills and talents, but I wouldn't necessarily want to." That would be difficult to fit on the spine, though. It might be interesting to look up the artists' names just to see what else sort of work someone in that position gets.
We should work on some comics together when I get famous for my crappy writing, or after i ever actually write my comics. :(
Anyway - things that suck about school. You are older than most freshmen yes? It'll probably be weird being in classes full of them. My friend Bradford went to art school a few years after highschool and just felt really awkward surrounded by freshmen, considering he was a few years older. So, I dont know. Advice Advice.
The only thing I enjoy about school anymore is going in knowing that I'm smarter than everyone, or at least feeling that I am. Its like a conquest. Every day you must slaughter everyone else.
I can barely draw my own comics; I have pages and pages worth of dialogue and action descriptions that I won't actually get to do anything with for months, possibly years, because the actual depiction takes so long. Somehow I doubt sketching naked people will improve that much. You have impressed me to some degree with your writing, but I don't know how to end this sentence
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I just wanted to add to this (unf unf) and say that it totally depends on the school. I go to a commuter school and there are a lot of older people in most of my classes. I think older students are actually better because they've had time to think about how to play the game of life better. And also they fart glitter dust, I've been told.
I feel like the school you go to after highschool is more like a gold star on a fourth grade report card than it is a pathway to success. Perhaps it had to do with his entreprenuering skills as a drug lord many years ago but, I was just staying with a friend in Calfornia whose father never went to college and became an electrical contracter/engineer and he works for famous peoples' houses like Robin Williams etc. and he is loaded now. The person that I will be interning with at RCA records for my label job once I'm in college this fall never had a degree even close to what he is working as now....so on and so forth. My point is, you are very talented at what you do, so if you just milk this school for all that it's worth and keep doing your own thing at home and whatever (despite what they might ask you to do as part of the core curriculum) you will gain a lot out the experience. It is shitty that formal education has become such a "must" in society, especially for someone like you who seems to have already found their niche as an
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That's the idea, yes, however flawed it may turn out to be. I just want to get out of there before they've made me buy every doohickey in their on-site art store. I also don't want to sculpt clay skeletons to sculpt clay muscles over, which will then be covered by clay skin. Again, why bother?
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Seriously, though, I was totally frustrated for like 3 years, since most of the classes I was taking had nothing to do with computers, and the computer science classes were horrible, and I made no friends, and sdlkfjsdl but art school is probably a lot more fun. Especially the people. I am pretty much surrounded by a sea of indian/chinese/eastern european men, and also iMacs.
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I carried around a lot of things proper persons wouldn't already, so a couple fancy pencils and a roll of tape don't make much difference. However, the giant paper is certainly a change, because that doesn't fit into the bag I already have. I will need to get a bigger bag.
The people, ehhh, I don't know about them. So much time has passed since I've been normal that I don't even remember what it's like to make friends. I don't know that I ever really knew. Typically, what few there have been came to me, and it will be hard to stand out when everyone dresses like a recluse and lugs huge sacks of paper around.
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Anyway - things that suck about school. You are older than most freshmen yes? It'll probably be weird being in classes full of them. My friend Bradford went to art school a few years after highschool and just felt really awkward surrounded by freshmen, considering he was a few years older. So, I dont know. Advice Advice.
The only thing I enjoy about school anymore is going in knowing that I'm smarter than everyone, or at least feeling that I am. Its like a conquest. Every day you must slaughter everyone else.
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