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[Tales of Zestiria]

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[Strange Magic]

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[Sleepy Hollow]

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[Star Trek: TNG]

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[Person of Interest]

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(Dangan Ronpa)

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(Splash, Daryl Hannah)

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[Once Upon a Time]

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I was an animation major, and then I started taking a bunch of college art classes with a bunch of subjective-like-WOAH professors and was like "fuck this shit." Now I'm a programmer.

I can't blame you for that. I pretty much never took art classes after middle school for that reason, and also because I was pretty sure I didn't have it in me to manage an art degree.

(And now hilariously I make comics. Joke's on me, MWAHAHAHA!)

--Rogan

*high fives*

And yeah, the class that was my breaking point. It was a 3-credit hour course, of which we met in person for 6 hours a week (two 3 hour sessions). You couldn't listen to any music for the 3 hours, even during the last hour or so when we were all drawing in complete silence. We also couldn't sit down while we drew unless we had a doctor's note saying we had a medical problem.

There was also an extra required 2 hours of drawing homework EVERY DAY. If you didn't put in 4 hours of work for the Thursday class or the 10 hours of work for the Tuesday class, he wouldn't look at your work. Wouldn't critique it. Wouldn't acknowledge it. Everybody ended up lying about the work they put it, so he started developing favorites instead. (I started off a favorite, but as the rest of my course load piled up and I tried to go to him for help/advice, I slowly got demoted to "not serious about the course".)

But even with critique, he wouldn't give grades. Not even at midterm. He wouldn't even tell us if we were passing or failing because, in his words, "if he told us we were passing, we wouldn't try harder."

Needless to say, it was the only class in my entire college history that I withdrew from.

Edited (mixed up continue with couldn't) 2015-02-03 01:31 (UTC)

Wow. That is some of the worst teaching I've ever heard of. What a terrible professor.

Oh god, that sounds HEINOUS. I'd've pitched my pencils out the window. Once, ONCE I decided to try a community college art course in high school. I took one look at the amount of time I was expected to spend on the art, the amount of money I was expected to spend on the art, on top of three hours of my weekends for the class alone, ON TOP of my high school course load and ANOTHER community college course, and I was like, "Screw it. Observation worked for da Vinci, it'll work for me."

I have not regretted this decision. (Well, okay, I kind of WISH I'd been able to take some art courses, but on the things I actually wanted to learn, like perspective, comics framing, and design, rather than drawing fruit with charcoal I'd never use again.)

--Rogan

FFFFFFFFFFFFFU-

UGH. FRUIT WITH CHARCOAL. ON THAT NOTE.

The two hour a day drawing homework? Usually a continuation of something we'd start in class. When would be stuff specific to the art studio. In specific places/arrangements. Which, you know, other classes would use and move around.

So not only did we have to spend two hours a day on the homework. We had to spent said hours in the art studio, which because of the number of classes, were only avaiable from about 8pm-7am, AND you had to find all the shit you'd been drawing and reconstruct the scene before you even started drawing again.

God, I hate that man. It's been over five years now, and I still hate that man. I had several breakdowns that semester before I finally withdrew. It was not pretty.

But yeah, I still love doodling and drawing in my spare time, and sometimes I think would like to take an actual class and learn more actual technique and stuff too... and then I remember all the bullshit which, granted, #notallartprofessors, but still.

Uuuuuugh. Talk about petty tyrants and little tin gods!

Yeah, I practiced drawing by doing impromptu sketch crawls and life drawing wherever I was. A pet store owner was nice enough to let me come in during off hours and just draw all the rodents he had around. If I was on the subway, I'd try to gesture sketch everyone around me, never knowing when they'd move or get off. If I saw a neat building, draw the building!

I feel pretty good about how I've been learning. And I didn't need to spend a couple hundred smackers on art supplies I'm unlikely to use again either, eesh.

--Rogan

See, that is awesome. You are awesome. Go you.

Thanks! It helps that I've found I only really care about art as a way to tell a story, rather than as a goal in its own right. So I don't think I would've been a good fit for art school anyway, which focuses on art for its own sake.

Same actually! I've always loved animation because it told a story.

And then eventually I was like "you know what? I'm just going to get a degree in something that pays well and is not super high stress so I'll be able write my own stories on the side and one day I will be published and it will be amazing and then I'll get other people to draw my art for me."

Obviously, I'm not banking on the fanart thing, but I'm chugging away at the whole publishing thing. Plus I have the time to sing and audition for stuff on the side, so yay.

Yeah. In my case, I pursued linguistics (which I don't regret, turns out it's hella useful when you write speculative fiction), tried to become an office monkey, ended up disabled, and now I do art and writing and comics.

It's kind of nice to be doing what I love, at a pace I can actually MANAGE. Peaceful.

--Rogan

Yeah, we kind of had similar classes. And woe is you if you liked drawing anime/cartoons. The "illustration/Fine Art/Graphic Design departments HATED those of us who were more inclined for that stuff. They never took us seriously. I think it's why I'm so demotivated now, on top of my work being belh. And I graduated back in 2011.

Wow. I wonder if that's a general thing, because the art department in my college hated the animation subtracks too, going as far as to say that art isn't "art" if it's commercialized. Though they also hated the graphic design department as well, since it was both commercialized + advertising. Lots of hate and snobbery everywhere.

Glad you graduated. <3

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