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I made this comic solely to explain how the interview went, so please ignore how ugly it looks. This was easier than trying to just write it down for me.

I am a very emotional person especially when I’m nervous, so this event hit me quite hard.

More news soon.

Oh honey. Oh god. I’m so sorry.  Okay. This is not a school you want to associate with. These are bad people. They are not better than you. I don’t care how prestigious they think or say they are. Going there would have been a waste of your time, because you are so much better than anything they could offer you and they do not have a fucking clue what they are talking about. Trust me. I struggled through a college full of people just like that, and got nothing out of it but wasted time and resentment. All they did was tell me I was phony and a failure for wanting to actually learn how to draw and paint, and that is all kinds of backwards. All that self-important grandiose bullshit about illustration and technical skill not being “art” is just hiding the fact that they can’t paint or draw for shit. They live in an echo-chamber, and they only worship the absolute newest trends in the handful of areas of modern art they deem worthy, to the exclusion of all else. That is NOT art, that is elitism and egotism, pure and simple, and that sure as hell does not help the students. They are NOT better than you. Your beautiful artwork and expressiveness and illustrative style are powerful and important - everyone’s is. Saying someone’s work is “not art” and therefore not important is not a critique. It’s an asshole thing to say, and offers absolutely nothing of importance or value for potential students.

Now, that isn’t to say there is no value in modern and post modern and abstract expressionist etc. art - on the contrary. The more inclusive you can be in your influences, and the more you can look at and study, the better. (Branching out is always a healthy thing to do!) But if that’s ALL a school has to offer, if an art school tries to tell you that technical skill and illustration are invalid or unimportant, if they try to tell you that Rembrandt and Van Gogh aren’t worth looking at or studying because they are dead, if they dismiss artists they don’t approve of as “kids who like to scribble,” if they tell you that you don’t have a place there unless you conform exactly to what they want, then you need to avoid that place like the plague, because they are not there to help you, they are not there to teach you,  they are there to find people who can make the school look even more self-important than it already is. 

Sorry for the rant. XD I’m still haven’t quite gotten over how crappy my art college experience was. (For those interested, the crap school in question was Sacramento State University. After I left, I attended a handful of classes and workshops at the Academy of Art University in SF and Watts Atelier in Encinitas, CA ,which helped me SO much more, as the teachers were interested in actually helping students learn the skills that art schools are supposed to teach you. You know, painting and drawing and inking and sculpting and all that good stuff.) 

Uh, so yeah. >_> Basically look for schools with a good technical program that stresses life drawing, painting, drawing. Art is one of the few careers where people care about your portfolio more than where you got your degree (unless you’re gearing up to work for a Pixar or Dreamworks or something, in which case it does help). So find a place that will help you be the best you can be, and don’t worry about how prestigious or fancy they think they are. <3 

Echoing Julie’s remarks here. I spent my college years at an institution like the one in the comic that valued ~soul expression~ and AbEx over developing technical skills. At the time, I thought it was all peaches, because I was (and still am) super into making and observing AbEx art. Fortunately, I was required to take classes in Photoshop and Illustrator— without those, I would not have gotten a job after college.

I graduated without having learned ANYTHING about drawing, about color theory, about perspective or line weight or form. At thirt*coughcough* I’m still drawing like a high school kid and trying to make up for the damage of those wasted years.
Fuck “real art”, fuck “high art”, fuck “low art”. Learn, develop, grow, evolve, create.

I don’t often reblog stuff, but this comic and the commentary are incredibly important.

A lot of people ask me about college, expressing fear and nerves about whether or not they’re “good enough” or doing “the right art” to get in/do well. Fuck that, kids.

Find a school that will help you grow, no matter what art you do. Be open to criticism, yes, but if the school you’re talking to talks down to you or says that what you’re doing isn’t ~*~*~*”REAL”~*~*~ art, tell ‘em to fuck right off and walk the fuck outta there. That attitude is wrong. THEY are wrong.

You deserve to have an environment that nurtures your art and your skills and offers classes that will help you the very most that they can. Nothing will hurt you/your art more than cutting off the corners of your square peg to fit into a round hole.

/raises fist in solidarity

/extends middle finger at art elitist assholes

I just had to reblog this.

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I got a little behind with these, HW school crap, and life. » I had the lineart done just finally got around to coloring it today. My scanner and PS doctoring didn’t do justice to how it came out color wise but can’t help it I guess. /:

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So this 4th one I did, I had the line art ready for a day or two but wasn’t able to color it due to other things I had to do. I went with an original character I designed myself and did some heavy experimenting with color mixing and such, and it came out pretty well. Though I was a little sad that it kinda looked like one of my other original character designs but I guess that just means I need to work on that aspect. /: Anyways, I used Margret’s official art from Persona 4 to help reference how to shade some of this, Margret actually was kind of the character that inspired the creation of this character.

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So I did this with the intent on coloring it when I started this but I ended up leaving it black and white cause it looked nicer like that. I left it so you can see the stroke marks and such, I could of scanned it so it looks completely black and white.

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So this one the second one I did was on Lon’Qu based on his official art. I wasn’t able to quite get the colors I wanted when I was doing this. I was able to get some nice shading and gradients going. I did make some minor edits to this, things like colors that got colored outside the lines. Still trying figure out how to mess with ways to mess with skin tones.

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So I started doing this sorta daily one or twice inking and copic practice cause I haven’t done it in a while. Cause I haven’t done it in awhile it was sort of a rough start cause I got used to doing things like undo and digital layers. d: Anyways I’ll be trying to post these daily if I can.

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Forgot to upload this here on my tumblr I seem to forget I have a tumblr…

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I didn’t want to draw her armor out or anything cause I haven’t done any studies on it at the time I did this. Her face came out a little weird but the rest of it came out alright (cept for the hands, gotta work on those again). I haven’t done any lineart stuff in a while cause of how long it used to take me but I got the line art done faster than I usually would cause of my new Tablet ~ Yea so be expecting more lineart type works down the road, I’ll be flopping back and forth between that and my line-less style of painting also. 

Oddly by the time I was done I was a littttttttlllllleeee reminded of Aerith(Aeris depending on her preference). As to why those clothes, on the wiki, there was a picture in the gallery of her armorless so I just used those clothes.

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My painting teacher didn’t like the idea I did “anime” type work when most people in my class seem to be fine with it… I dunno this is why I don’t like most school art teachers. » It seems like my Tablet display and computer are displaying the saturation levels differently, if it looks really desaturated let me know cause I really can’t tell with the way displays are these days… I took it with my camera so I dunno if its just my computer. »

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Alrighty, I scrapped my first Yiynova paint test I was doing, wasn’t coming out well but it gave me a pretty good idea of what to expect from it, shortly after I started working on this, I just kinda worked on it on and off just cause school can be a pain. » I was gonna go and wrap up my painting for my class but I’m gonna be doing that later, I needed a break from all my school stuff cause I was getting fatigued with all of it.  So why Noel Vermillion from Blazblue, I dunno haven’t really done anything Blazblue related in awhile, still waiting for BBCP to be announced for console (hopefully not as a new gen….) and I have done a few sketches on this version of her (just never uploaded them cause they where just minor stuff to see how the design worked) but never did anything more finished. I’m glad it came out alright, cause they first time I was working on this it wasn’t working out but I got it to work after cooling my head off. I just made a random background cause I felt like the neutral gray background I was using or a transparent one would of been, I dunno kinda boring I guess. *shrugs* 

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