hahah i have been and i, much like everyone else, fell right in love with it
it's right next door to the old home country too, so i'll probably swing by and visit the fam.
so more info on the italy thing:
there is one academy that offers a year long intensive drawing program which costs a little over 13k USD
that's about the same as it'd cost for me to go to university here and would probably benefit me waaaay more
so i'm thinking of applying to that
still haven't heard anything about the cost of the month program
will keep you guys posted.
here's the year long program one: http://www.florenceacademyofart.com/
it's actually 3 years. first is drawing, second is painting, third is...crazier painting haha
but you get a certificate after all three years and can choose how far you want to go based on what you want to do with it all.
here's the year long program one: http://www.florenceacademyofart.com/
it's actually 3 years. first is drawing, second is painting, third is...crazier painting haha
but you get a certificate after all three years and can choose how far you want to go based on what you want to do with it all.
Oh! I'm almost positive one of my professors took a course there...the summer course for "Figure Drawing, the Academic Method". He said it was absolutely fantastic, and everybody there was incredibly talented (and I thought he was a really excellent professor, really talented too. I'd trust his judgment! )
PS: this summer i might be getting a job at iD Tech Camps in the bay area teaching snot nosed kids how to use photoshop and "make" video games, which includes teaching them the Spore Creature Creator engine...
Whatever though.
Should be cool.
I've already had an interview and she sounded like she liked me so lets hope i get it!
Once I become rich making games, I might go to school so I can teach science to kids.
If you're doing it right, they'll be too wrapped up in your games to learn anything.
Actually, the main purpose of me going into games is to build entertainment software that is also educational.
It makes me wonder how you can set a game like Assassin's Creed in so rich a time period for history, and not actually teach anyone anything about the time period.
I've got more than I thought I had (though a cerulean blue gouache is leaking...)
In oils:
Yellow Ochre
Quinacridone Red
Cadmium Red Medium
French Ultramarine
Titanium White
Zinc White
Burnt Sienna
and I must have been rich when I bought it, because I've also got a tube of Cobalt Blue (a 1.25 oz tube cost $17)
It's like Christmas, only better, because I didn't get any presents for Christmas. That's nearly everything I need to do my PA contest project...I just need to pick up some cadmium yellow at some point
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Once I become rich making games, I might go to school so I can teach science to kids.
If you're doing it right, they'll be too wrapped up in your games to learn anything.
Actually, the main purpose of me going into games is to build entertainment software that is also educational.
It makes me wonder how you can set a game like Assassin's Creed in so rich a time period for history, and not actually teach anyone anything about the time period.
It'd be awesome if it wasn't the ham-fisted, boring shit that most educational games are.
abloo abloo, please don't even reply to this, let alone read it, I just needed to post it on the internet
I feel like nobody is going to hire me as a Concept Artist, or even an intern for anything, ever, because I don't know that many software packages, my GPA won't be a goddamn 4.0, I don't have that much portfolio work to actually show, etc etc etc I'm not as good as some of the people I've seen who know a billion software packages, have a perfect GPA and like 3 internships under their belt and 10 different achievements
I should have never gotten into the fucking Illustration department, it's so completely pointless, I've learned absolutely nothing and I'm paying out of the goddamn ASS
The only time I've ever learned something is when I've taken electives in studio courses or in another department
This is such bullshit and oh god oh god I suck so bad why can't I know everything and have a huge solid portfolio full of amazing work and get an A in every single class and CARE OH SO MUCH about all these bullshit assignments and the Illustration professors that keep thinking everybody wants to go into the "standard illustrator" thing and do editorials and book illustrations and everything...and I've gotten multiple people in my classes telling me my fucking critiques are too harsh for them so I just end up shutting my goddamn mouth and then the professor complains that I'm not participating enough recently so now all I can do is give one-sentence praises or critiques for people where it doesn't help them in the slightest, especially when some professors are all like "yeah! I like this! I think this is working!" and I have to keep quiet the entire time because I entirely disagree but oooh noooo I can't disagree with the professor because that would make me look egotistical
and I can't get it out of my head that if I don't get an internship I completely fail at life
and my roommates are the most fucking idiotic, unsanitary, whiney bitches in the world
I just need somebody to pay for me to live by myself for a year, with a dog, so I can learn all these different programs, work on my portfolio without paying for some class in which I learn nothing, and then be the very bestest person for the job! And not talk to my father the entire time! And not have nagging insecurities about my life in the back of my head! And not worry about money! Or loans! Or my health! And not have total freak-out moments like this where I feel like I've spent the past 22 years slacking because I'm not as good as / don't know as much software as / don't have a huge of a portfolio as / don't know as much as THIS OTHER GUY!
/AAAAAAAUGH
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abloo abloo, please don't even reply to this, let alone read it, I just needed to post it on the internet
I feel like nobody is going to hire me as a Concept Artist, or even an intern for anything, ever, because I don't know that many software packages, my GPA won't be a goddamn 4.0, I don't have that much portfolio work to actually show, etc etc etc I'm not as good as some of the people I've seen who know a billion software packages, have a perfect GPA and like 3 internships under their belt and 10 different achievements
I should have never gotten into the fucking Illustration department, it's so completely pointless, I've learned absolutely nothing and I'm paying out of the goddamn ASS
The only time I've ever learned something is when I've taken electives in studio courses or in another department
This is such bullshit and oh god oh god I suck so bad why can't I know everything and have a huge solid portfolio full of amazing work and get an A in every single class and CARE OH SO MUCH about all these bullshit assignments and the Illustration professors that keep thinking everybody wants to go into the "standard illustrator" thing and do editorials and book illustrations and everything...and I've gotten multiple people in my classes telling me my fucking critiques are too harsh for them so I just end up shutting my goddamn mouth and then the professor complains that I'm not participating enough recently so now all I can do is give one-sentence praises or critiques for people where it doesn't help them in the slightest, especially when some professors are all like "yeah! I like this! I think this is working!" and I have to keep quiet the entire time because I entirely disagree but oooh noooo I can't disagree with the professor because that would make me look egotistical
and I can't get it out of my head that if I don't get an internship I completely fail at life
and my roommates are the most fucking idiotic, unsanitary, whiney bitches in the world
I just need somebody to pay for me to live by myself for a year, with a dog, so I can learn all these different programs, work on my portfolio without paying for some class in which I learn nothing, and then be the very bestest person for the job! And not talk to my father the entire time! And not have nagging insecurities about my life in the back of my head! And not worry about money! Or loans! Or my health! And not have total freak-out moments like this where I feel like I've spent the past 22 years slacking because I'm not as good as / don't know as much software as / don't have a huge of a portfolio as / don't know as much as THIS OTHER GUY!
/AAAAAAAUGH
To quote futurama: So what? We all feel like that, all the time!
abloo abloo, please don't even reply to this, let alone read it, I just needed to post it on the internet
I feel like nobody is going to hire me as a Concept Artist, or even an intern for anything, ever, because I don't know that many software packages, my GPA won't be a goddamn 4.0, I don't have that much portfolio work to actually show, etc etc etc I'm not as good as some of the people I've seen who know a billion software packages, have a perfect GPA and like 3 internships under their belt and 10 different achievements
I should have never gotten into the fucking Illustration department, it's so completely pointless, I've learned absolutely nothing and I'm paying out of the goddamn ASS
The only time I've ever learned something is when I've taken electives in studio courses or in another department
This is such bullshit and oh god oh god I suck so bad why can't I know everything and have a huge solid portfolio full of amazing work and get an A in every single class and CARE OH SO MUCH about all these bullshit assignments and the Illustration professors that keep thinking everybody wants to go into the "standard illustrator" thing and do editorials and book illustrations and everything...and I've gotten multiple people in my classes telling me my fucking critiques are too harsh for them so I just end up shutting my goddamn mouth and then the professor complains that I'm not participating enough recently so now all I can do is give one-sentence praises or critiques for people where it doesn't help them in the slightest, especially when some professors are all like "yeah! I like this! I think this is working!" and I have to keep quiet the entire time because I entirely disagree but oooh noooo I can't disagree with the professor because that would make me look egotistical
and I can't get it out of my head that if I don't get an internship I completely fail at life
and my roommates are the most fucking idiotic, unsanitary, whiney bitches in the world
I just need somebody to pay for me to live by myself for a year, with a dog, so I can learn all these different programs, work on my portfolio without paying for some class in which I learn nothing, and then be the very bestest person for the job! And not talk to my father the entire time! And not have nagging insecurities about my life in the back of my head! And not worry about money! Or loans! Or my health! And not have total freak-out moments like this where I feel like I've spent the past 22 years slacking because I'm not as good as / don't know as much software as / don't have a huge of a portfolio as / don't know as much as THIS OTHER GUY!
/AAAAAAAUGH
Become a carpenter. It's very fulfilling work.
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abloo abloo, please don't even reply to this, let alone read it, I just needed to post it on the internet
I feel like nobody is going to hire me as a Concept Artist, or even an intern for anything, ever, because I don't know that many software packages, my GPA won't be a goddamn 4.0, I don't have that much portfolio work to actually show, etc etc etc I'm not as good as some of the people I've seen who know a billion software packages, have a perfect GPA and like 3 internships under their belt and 10 different achievements
I should have never gotten into the fucking Illustration department, it's so completely pointless, I've learned absolutely nothing and I'm paying out of the goddamn ASS
The only time I've ever learned something is when I've taken electives in studio courses or in another department
This is such bullshit and oh god oh god I suck so bad why can't I know everything and have a huge solid portfolio full of amazing work and get an A in every single class and CARE OH SO MUCH about all these bullshit assignments and the Illustration professors that keep thinking everybody wants to go into the "standard illustrator" thing and do editorials and book illustrations and everything...and I've gotten multiple people in my classes telling me my fucking critiques are too harsh for them so I just end up shutting my goddamn mouth and then the professor complains that I'm not participating enough recently so now all I can do is give one-sentence praises or critiques for people where it doesn't help them in the slightest, especially when some professors are all like "yeah! I like this! I think this is working!" and I have to keep quiet the entire time because I entirely disagree but oooh noooo I can't disagree with the professor because that would make me look egotistical
and I can't get it out of my head that if I don't get an internship I completely fail at life
and my roommates are the most fucking idiotic, unsanitary, whiney bitches in the world
I just need somebody to pay for me to live by myself for a year, with a dog, so I can learn all these different programs, work on my portfolio without paying for some class in which I learn nothing, and then be the very bestest person for the job! And not talk to my father the entire time! And not have nagging insecurities about my life in the back of my head! And not worry about money! Or loans! Or my health! And not have total freak-out moments like this where I feel like I've spent the past 22 years slacking because I'm not as good as / don't know as much software as / don't have a huge of a portfolio as / don't know as much as THIS OTHER GUY!
/AAAAAAAUGH
Become a carpenter. It's very fulfilling work.
Why? So she can have the same fucking doubts about her abilities with even more debt, time wasted in trianing, and a brand new career path to hate?
abloo abloo, please don't even reply to this, let alone read it, I just needed to post it on the internet
I feel like nobody is going to hire me as a Concept Artist, or even an intern for anything, ever, because I don't know that many software packages, my GPA won't be a goddamn 4.0, I don't have that much portfolio work to actually show, etc etc etc I'm not as good as some of the people I've seen who know a billion software packages, have a perfect GPA and like 3 internships under their belt and 10 different achievements
I should have never gotten into the fucking Illustration department, it's so completely pointless, I've learned absolutely nothing and I'm paying out of the goddamn ASS
The only time I've ever learned something is when I've taken electives in studio courses or in another department
This is such bullshit and oh god oh god I suck so bad why can't I know everything and have a huge solid portfolio full of amazing work and get an A in every single class and CARE OH SO MUCH about all these bullshit assignments and the Illustration professors that keep thinking everybody wants to go into the "standard illustrator" thing and do editorials and book illustrations and everything...and I've gotten multiple people in my classes telling me my fucking critiques are too harsh for them so I just end up shutting my goddamn mouth and then the professor complains that I'm not participating enough recently so now all I can do is give one-sentence praises or critiques for people where it doesn't help them in the slightest, especially when some professors are all like "yeah! I like this! I think this is working!" and I have to keep quiet the entire time because I entirely disagree but oooh noooo I can't disagree with the professor because that would make me look egotistical
and I can't get it out of my head that if I don't get an internship I completely fail at life
and my roommates are the most fucking idiotic, unsanitary, whiney bitches in the world
I just need somebody to pay for me to live by myself for a year, with a dog, so I can learn all these different programs, work on my portfolio without paying for some class in which I learn nothing, and then be the very bestest person for the job! And not talk to my father the entire time! And not have nagging insecurities about my life in the back of my head! And not worry about money! Or loans! Or my health! And not have total freak-out moments like this where I feel like I've spent the past 22 years slacking because I'm not as good as / don't know as much software as / don't have a huge of a portfolio as / don't know as much as THIS OTHER GUY!
/AAAAAAAUGH
Become a carpenter. It's very fulfilling work.
Why? So she can have the same fucking doubts about her abilities with even more debt, time wasted in trianing, and a brand new career path to hate?
Yes.
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abloo abloo, please don't even reply to this, let alone read it, I just needed to post it on the internet
I feel like nobody is going to hire me as a Concept Artist, or even an intern for anything, ever, because I don't know that many software packages, my GPA won't be a goddamn 4.0, I don't have that much portfolio work to actually show, etc etc etc I'm not as good as some of the people I've seen who know a billion software packages, have a perfect GPA and like 3 internships under their belt and 10 different achievements
I should have never gotten into the fucking Illustration department, it's so completely pointless, I've learned absolutely nothing and I'm paying out of the goddamn ASS
The only time I've ever learned something is when I've taken electives in studio courses or in another department
This is such bullshit and oh god oh god I suck so bad why can't I know everything and have a huge solid portfolio full of amazing work and get an A in every single class and CARE OH SO MUCH about all these bullshit assignments and the Illustration professors that keep thinking everybody wants to go into the "standard illustrator" thing and do editorials and book illustrations and everything...and I've gotten multiple people in my classes telling me my fucking critiques are too harsh for them so I just end up shutting my goddamn mouth and then the professor complains that I'm not participating enough recently so now all I can do is give one-sentence praises or critiques for people where it doesn't help them in the slightest, especially when some professors are all like "yeah! I like this! I think this is working!" and I have to keep quiet the entire time because I entirely disagree but oooh noooo I can't disagree with the professor because that would make me look egotistical
and I can't get it out of my head that if I don't get an internship I completely fail at life
and my roommates are the most fucking idiotic, unsanitary, whiney bitches in the world
I just need somebody to pay for me to live by myself for a year, with a dog, so I can learn all these different programs, work on my portfolio without paying for some class in which I learn nothing, and then be the very bestest person for the job! And not talk to my father the entire time! And not have nagging insecurities about my life in the back of my head! And not worry about money! Or loans! Or my health! And not have total freak-out moments like this where I feel like I've spent the past 22 years slacking because I'm not as good as / don't know as much software as / don't have a huge of a portfolio as / don't know as much as THIS OTHER GUY!
/AAAAAAAUGH
Become a carpenter. It's very fulfilling work.
Why? So she can have the same fucking doubts about her abilities with even more debt, time wasted in trianing, and a brand new career path to hate?
abloo abloo, please don't even reply to this, let alone read it, I just needed to post it on the internet
I feel like nobody is going to hire me as a Concept Artist, or even an intern for anything, ever, because I don't know that many software packages, my GPA won't be a goddamn 4.0, I don't have that much portfolio work to actually show, etc etc etc I'm not as good as some of the people I've seen who know a billion software packages, have a perfect GPA and like 3 internships under their belt and 10 different achievements
I should have never gotten into the fucking Illustration department, it's so completely pointless, I've learned absolutely nothing and I'm paying out of the goddamn ASS
The only time I've ever learned something is when I've taken electives in studio courses or in another department
This is such bullshit and oh god oh god I suck so bad why can't I know everything and have a huge solid portfolio full of amazing work and get an A in every single class and CARE OH SO MUCH about all these bullshit assignments and the Illustration professors that keep thinking everybody wants to go into the "standard illustrator" thing and do editorials and book illustrations and everything...and I've gotten multiple people in my classes telling me my fucking critiques are too harsh for them so I just end up shutting my goddamn mouth and then the professor complains that I'm not participating enough recently so now all I can do is give one-sentence praises or critiques for people where it doesn't help them in the slightest, especially when some professors are all like "yeah! I like this! I think this is working!" and I have to keep quiet the entire time because I entirely disagree but oooh noooo I can't disagree with the professor because that would make me look egotistical
and I can't get it out of my head that if I don't get an internship I completely fail at life
and my roommates are the most fucking idiotic, unsanitary, whiney bitches in the world
I just need somebody to pay for me to live by myself for a year, with a dog, so I can learn all these different programs, work on my portfolio without paying for some class in which I learn nothing, and then be the very bestest person for the job! And not talk to my father the entire time! And not have nagging insecurities about my life in the back of my head! And not worry about money! Or loans! Or my health! And not have total freak-out moments like this where I feel like I've spent the past 22 years slacking because I'm not as good as / don't know as much software as / don't have a huge of a portfolio as / don't know as much as THIS OTHER GUY!
/AAAAAAAUGH
Become a carpenter. It's very fulfilling work.
Why? So she can have the same fucking doubts about her abilities with even more debt, time wasted in trianing, and a brand new career path to hate?
BRO LET ME GET REAL WITH YOU AND SAY THAT MY FINGERS ARE PREPPED AND HOT LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN TO BRING RADICAL BEATS SO SMOOTH THE SHIT WILL BE MEDICINAL-GRADE TRIPNASTY MAKING ALL BRAINWAVES ROLL ON THE SURFACE OF A BALLS-FEISTY NEURAL RAINBOW CRACKA-LACKIN' YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE HERE-NOW SPACE-TIME SITUATION THAT ALL OF LIFE BE JAMMED UP IN THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL FLOW BEATS
abloo abloo, please don't even reply to this, let alone read it, I just needed to post it on the internet
I feel like nobody is going to hire me as a Concept Artist, or even an intern for anything, ever, because I don't know that many software packages, my GPA won't be a goddamn 4.0, I don't have that much portfolio work to actually show, etc etc etc I'm not as good as some of the people I've seen who know a billion software packages, have a perfect GPA and like 3 internships under their belt and 10 different achievements
I should have never gotten into the fucking Illustration department, it's so completely pointless, I've learned absolutely nothing and I'm paying out of the goddamn ASS
The only time I've ever learned something is when I've taken electives in studio courses or in another department
This is such bullshit and oh god oh god I suck so bad why can't I know everything and have a huge solid portfolio full of amazing work and get an A in every single class and CARE OH SO MUCH about all these bullshit assignments and the Illustration professors that keep thinking everybody wants to go into the "standard illustrator" thing and do editorials and book illustrations and everything...and I've gotten multiple people in my classes telling me my fucking critiques are too harsh for them so I just end up shutting my goddamn mouth and then the professor complains that I'm not participating enough recently so now all I can do is give one-sentence praises or critiques for people where it doesn't help them in the slightest, especially when some professors are all like "yeah! I like this! I think this is working!" and I have to keep quiet the entire time because I entirely disagree but oooh noooo I can't disagree with the professor because that would make me look egotistical
and I can't get it out of my head that if I don't get an internship I completely fail at life
and my roommates are the most fucking idiotic, unsanitary, whiney bitches in the world
I just need somebody to pay for me to live by myself for a year, with a dog, so I can learn all these different programs, work on my portfolio without paying for some class in which I learn nothing, and then be the very bestest person for the job! And not talk to my father the entire time! And not have nagging insecurities about my life in the back of my head! And not worry about money! Or loans! Or my health! And not have total freak-out moments like this where I feel like I've spent the past 22 years slacking because I'm not as good as / don't know as much software as / don't have a huge of a portfolio as / don't know as much as THIS OTHER GUY!
/AAAAAAAUGH
Become a carpenter. It's very fulfilling work.
Why? So she can have the same fucking doubts about her abilities with even more debt, time wasted in trianing, and a brand new career path to hate?
Yes.
I'm kinda in the opposite boat, wanting to be in art school but doing comp sci. I have a friend though that gave me some good advice going through his art degree; that most of the time it's not really worth it, so get a degree in something worthwhile. What I can say from experience is, if you're not happy with your path, change it early, even if it's just a different aspect of art. Choose classes that will benefit you though, because the knowledge you gain is far more helpful than the name of the class or degree at the end. And the longer you wait the harder it is to switch something.
That said ND, everything I've seen from you is amazing, and I have a feeling you'll do just fine, especially since you seem to be very dedicated to improving and producing. Don't get discouraged, just stay focused on what you need to be successful.
As far as critiquing, as far as bad students go, don't sweat it, give them whatever will get you by the easiest, most of them are gonna give up at some point anyways because they don't have what it takes. Those that do have skill, focus on them, give them the good honest critiques and try and form contacts. Networking is huge for being successful. My friend make very nice with all the good professors and students at his school and it is paying dividends.
Hope that helps, if it doesn't, just ignore me. ;D
Once I become rich making games, I might go to school so I can teach science to kids.
If you're doing it right, they'll be too wrapped up in your games to learn anything.
Actually, the main purpose of me going into games is to build entertainment software that is also educational.
It makes me wonder how you can set a game like Assassin's Creed in so rich a time period for history, and not actually teach anyone anything about the time period.
It'd be awesome if it wasn't the ham-fisted, boring shit that most educational games are.
Like Mario's Time Machine?
I agree about the educational aspect of it. The problem with video games over the last 10-15 years has been the escalation of cost into development and marketing. I forget the technical term for it, but it's part of the basis behind Alan Moore's problem with film. The basic premise is that the more money that goes into something, the more it's probably going to suck. When some jackass company has put X-hundred million dollars into the development of something, it has to appeal to the widest audience possible to reduce risk. Therefore, it has to conform to the standards of success set by its predecessors.
BRO LET ME GET REAL WITH YOU AND SAY THAT MY FINGERS ARE PREPPED AND HOT LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN TO BRING RADICAL BEATS SO SMOOTH THE SHIT WILL BE MEDICINAL-GRADE TRIPNASTY MAKING ALL BRAINWAVES ROLL ON THE SURFACE OF A BALLS-FEISTY NEURAL RAINBOW CRACKA-LACKIN' YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE HERE-NOW SPACE-TIME SITUATION THAT ALL OF LIFE BE JAMMED UP IN THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL FLOW BEATS
Night Dragon, after being familiar with you for quite some time, and reading posts you've made for the past several years, I have come to a conclusion.
And that conclusion is this: You need to loosen up and lighten up about basically everything. Seriously.
Thanks...and yeah, because I'm nearing the end of my junior year, it's beyond the point where I can change everything. My first year in state university, I figured "well, it'll get better in art school"...I get to SCAD and I think, "okay, it'll get harder in the upper classes"...and by now I think I realize that I'm just going to have to push through the rest of my coursework here, and just try to find loopholes in the system as much as I possibly can. I'm just sick of professors telling me that "well, you don't KNOW if you're not going to learn anything in this class or not, I think you should take it", or "well you don't KNOW if you're going to need to know this in the future or not", etc variations.
"No trust me I really don't think I'm going to learn anything in the Lets Draw Circles Today class"
I think I'll be okay with things if they let me take another 3D modeling course to replace one of my illustration electives, but chances are that'll be pushing it, waaaay too hard
I'm stoked because my advisor approved a substitution of printmaking instead of a second semester of ceramics for me.
Our school is kind of known for its 3D program, which is a bummer because it requires a large amount of 3D classes for an Art Ed degree, and leaves little room for additional studio electives.
Night Dragon, after being familiar with you for quite some time, and reading posts you've made for the past several years, I have come to a conclusion.
And that conclusion is this: You need to loosen up and lighten up about basically everything. Seriously.
Metal's told me that too. I know I must, but I'm not really sure how to, to be honest! I'm usually way more calm about all these issues, but I do probably go into freak-out mode too often, when I do.
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Night Dragon, after being familiar with you for quite some time, and reading posts you've made for the past several years, I have come to a conclusion.
And that conclusion is this: You need to loosen up and lighten up about basically everything. Seriously.
Metal's told me that too. I know I must, but I'm not really sure how to, to be honest! I'm usually way more calm about all these issues, but I do probably go into freak-out mode too often, when I do.
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it's right next door to the old home country too, so i'll probably swing by and visit the fam.
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so more info on the italy thing:
there is one academy that offers a year long intensive drawing program which costs a little over 13k USD
that's about the same as it'd cost for me to go to university here and would probably benefit me waaaay more
so i'm thinking of applying to that
still haven't heard anything about the cost of the month program
will keep you guys posted.
here's the year long program one:
http://www.florenceacademyofart.com/
it's actually 3 years. first is drawing, second is painting, third is...crazier painting haha
but you get a certificate after all three years and can choose how far you want to go based on what you want to do with it all.
Oh! I'm almost positive one of my professors took a course there...the summer course for "Figure Drawing, the Academic Method". He said it was absolutely fantastic, and everybody there was incredibly talented (and I thought he was a really excellent professor, really talented too. I'd trust his judgment! )
Whatever though.
Should be cool.
I've already had an interview and she sounded like she liked me so lets hope i get it!
If you're doing it right, they'll be too wrapped up in your games to learn anything.
Actually, the main purpose of me going into games is to build entertainment software that is also educational.
It makes me wonder how you can set a game like Assassin's Creed in so rich a time period for history, and not actually teach anyone anything about the time period.
I've got more than I thought I had (though a cerulean blue gouache is leaking...)
In oils:
Yellow Ochre
Quinacridone Red
Cadmium Red Medium
French Ultramarine
Titanium White
Zinc White
Burnt Sienna
and I must have been rich when I bought it, because I've also got a tube of Cobalt Blue (a 1.25 oz tube cost $17)
It's like Christmas, only better, because I didn't get any presents for Christmas. That's nearly everything I need to do my PA contest project...I just need to pick up some cadmium yellow at some point
What I read.
The rest of the post disappointed me.
It'd be awesome if it wasn't the ham-fisted, boring shit that most educational games are.
I should have never gotten into the fucking Illustration department, it's so completely pointless, I've learned absolutely nothing and I'm paying out of the goddamn ASS
The only time I've ever learned something is when I've taken electives in studio courses or in another department
This is such bullshit and oh god oh god I suck so bad why can't I know everything and have a huge solid portfolio full of amazing work and get an A in every single class and CARE OH SO MUCH about all these bullshit assignments and the Illustration professors that keep thinking everybody wants to go into the "standard illustrator" thing and do editorials and book illustrations and everything...and I've gotten multiple people in my classes telling me my fucking critiques are too harsh for them so I just end up shutting my goddamn mouth and then the professor complains that I'm not participating enough recently so now all I can do is give one-sentence praises or critiques for people where it doesn't help them in the slightest, especially when some professors are all like "yeah! I like this! I think this is working!" and I have to keep quiet the entire time because I entirely disagree but oooh noooo I can't disagree with the professor because that would make me look egotistical
and I can't get it out of my head that if I don't get an internship I completely fail at life
and my roommates are the most fucking idiotic, unsanitary, whiney bitches in the world
I just need somebody to pay for me to live by myself for a year, with a dog, so I can learn all these different programs, work on my portfolio without paying for some class in which I learn nothing, and then be the very bestest person for the job! And not talk to my father the entire time! And not have nagging insecurities about my life in the back of my head! And not worry about money! Or loans! Or my health! And not have total freak-out moments like this where I feel like I've spent the past 22 years slacking because I'm not as good as / don't know as much software as / don't have a huge of a portfolio as / don't know as much as THIS OTHER GUY!
/AAAAAAAUGH
It's threads like this one that make me hate H/A
To quote futurama: So what? We all feel like that, all the time!
haha, I just read that thread.
Become a carpenter. It's very fulfilling work.
It's just infuriating because the dude sounds more pissed off that the courts took his best drinking buddy away than anything else.
Why? So she can have the same fucking doubts about her abilities with even more debt, time wasted in trianing, and a brand new career path to hate?
Yes.
Your mom's a carpenter.
Yeah well Jesus was a carpenter and look where he ended up.
I know that already.
Is it nap time? I need a nap for real.
I'm kinda in the opposite boat, wanting to be in art school but doing comp sci. I have a friend though that gave me some good advice going through his art degree; that most of the time it's not really worth it, so get a degree in something worthwhile. What I can say from experience is, if you're not happy with your path, change it early, even if it's just a different aspect of art. Choose classes that will benefit you though, because the knowledge you gain is far more helpful than the name of the class or degree at the end. And the longer you wait the harder it is to switch something.
That said ND, everything I've seen from you is amazing, and I have a feeling you'll do just fine, especially since you seem to be very dedicated to improving and producing. Don't get discouraged, just stay focused on what you need to be successful.
As far as critiquing, as far as bad students go, don't sweat it, give them whatever will get you by the easiest, most of them are gonna give up at some point anyways because they don't have what it takes. Those that do have skill, focus on them, give them the good honest critiques and try and form contacts. Networking is huge for being successful. My friend make very nice with all the good professors and students at his school and it is paying dividends.
Hope that helps, if it doesn't, just ignore me. ;D
Like Mario's Time Machine?
I agree about the educational aspect of it. The problem with video games over the last 10-15 years has been the escalation of cost into development and marketing. I forget the technical term for it, but it's part of the basis behind Alan Moore's problem with film. The basic premise is that the more money that goes into something, the more it's probably going to suck. When some jackass company has put X-hundred million dollars into the development of something, it has to appeal to the widest audience possible to reduce risk. Therefore, it has to conform to the standards of success set by its predecessors.
Heeell yes.
I'm a time traveler!!!!
My Portfolio Site
And that conclusion is this: You need to loosen up and lighten up about basically everything. Seriously.
Thanks...and yeah, because I'm nearing the end of my junior year, it's beyond the point where I can change everything. My first year in state university, I figured "well, it'll get better in art school"...I get to SCAD and I think, "okay, it'll get harder in the upper classes"...and by now I think I realize that I'm just going to have to push through the rest of my coursework here, and just try to find loopholes in the system as much as I possibly can. I'm just sick of professors telling me that "well, you don't KNOW if you're not going to learn anything in this class or not, I think you should take it", or "well you don't KNOW if you're going to need to know this in the future or not", etc variations.
"No trust me I really don't think I'm going to learn anything in the Lets Draw Circles Today class"
I think I'll be okay with things if they let me take another 3D modeling course to replace one of my illustration electives, but chances are that'll be pushing it, waaaay too hard
unless I plead
Our school is kind of known for its 3D program, which is a bummer because it requires a large amount of 3D classes for an Art Ed degree, and leaves little room for additional studio electives.
Metal's told me that too. I know I must, but I'm not really sure how to, to be honest! I'm usually way more calm about all these issues, but I do probably go into freak-out mode too often, when I do.
Sunlight, exercise, and diaphramatic breathing.