For sure, art and music offer more flexibility than psychology or any “desk job”. And you can follow your dream

Do what you love…. those who look down on you are jealous because they are stuck in a dead end job like mine, and are miserable.

Kudos to those following their dream

Advertisment creators, videogame creators, cartoonists and others involved in CG and 3D graphics are the only people making money. “Art” for “Arts sake” isn’t something you can really depend on to make money off of anymore. That era pretty much died after the 60′s and Andy Warhol.

…Not saying this guy shouldn’t get his degree, just have a specific money making field that he is working towards perfecting, else he probably won’t make it in any.

As an engineer in college, all I get (except from other engineers) is “I feel sorry for you…” As if that weren’t enough, when I went to visit my doctor, he asked me what my major was. When I said engineering, he replied “Oh, so that means you don’t have a girlfriend then” and proceeded to check “none” on the “How many times have you had sex in the last year?” question.

I mean, really? Do people really think engineers have no social life?

I know that you have never done any research on the art industry, nor have ever had to pay an artist, and are completely ignorant. I don’t know why you would speak without knowing anything though. It’s senseless. I can see your non-art degree hadn’t thought you anything about the economy.

Maybe it’s something about my personality that has people fishing for comments constantly.

Oh, and of course, there’s people asking for free art who clearly have no idea it takes huge amounts of time and effort to do well.

I used to be a photo major before i became an illustration major and people still ask me to be the “official photographer”. Gag…

We live SURROUNDED by art.
creativity enriches our daily monotone lifes.

from buildings to sculptures to paintings to objects. design and marketeeing.

with our underestimated, teased and low rated so called “creativity” we made all u silly non creative “box minded” people love your new car because of its cool smooth look ( dont tell me its about the engine. would u still love it if it looked like a shoebox? ), love your new phone design and ur new dress.

artists are the one to blame for that “ooohhhhh” you do when u see a painting.
for that “oohhhh” u do when u see a cool designer house or object.

that “ohhh” u do when u go to italy and see those beautiful decorated villas.
for that “hahah” at funny commercials.

artists live in a world of art and immagination . a world that is really rich of new ideas and interests.

artists have the capability and the fantasy to make a dull room into something exquisite.

now honestly, some people really have no idea what “artist” means.

“Can you paint me/some fruit/something like that really pretty Thomas Kinkade painting/this one landscape like bob ross/a family portrait/my kid’s bedroom/my house/Jesus/something like that one guy that did Marilyn Monroe in squares and colors…..”

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That said, people have very little appreciation for artists today.

“Can the painter in the grand manner be ignorant of sacred, profane, or fabulous history? Does he not need geography, geometry, and perspective? He cannot cultivate architecture too much, and in order to understand nature he must be a physicist. Can he be sure of correctly representing things whose cause and effect he does not know? Unless he has some knowledge of that part of moral law which teaches us of the passions, how can he draw the visible images of these movements of the soul?. . . .

“Through the study of proportions and anatomy he must know the external man; and with the help of philosophy he must delve into his soul. How can he paint his characters unless he has some knowledge of the rules of physiognomy? . . .Were we to list all the knowledge needed by the painter we should never finish.” -Antoine Coypel

I’ve tried to use graphics packages, and I can’t get anything good out of it, but one of my Graphic Designer friends makes beautiful images with relative ease. However, he can’t use a pencil to draw much beyond simple shapes… It is the person that makes the Art, not the tools!

(I mean tools to refer to paints, pencils, photoshop, etc., not anything else…)

What did I do? Not major as some of you wish to do. I custom designed teachers classrooms from top to bottom. Bulletin boards, file folder games, murals, classroom designs, everything, one of a kind, unique, not from a book, not copied, but directly from my mind…no drawing classes, no college classes…whatsoever. I’ve been drawing since a child. A God-given talent, you should say. Even my family did everything they could to prevent me from drawing, but when a fire burns that passionately inside you, it either burns you up inside to get out or it dies inside unused. I drew for 12 years, practically 15+ hours a day, 6 days a week, even with 2 small children and a home to care and a husband gone all the time. I even got the children involved and I drew most of the night when the children slept. I know this is why I only sleep about 3-4 hours of sleep a night.

How did I begin? I went to a random school and asked for a teacher that was beginning her first there at the school and talked to he/she and asked her if I could custom design her classroom free of charge if they would only recommend my name to other teachers. I eventually went from $5 to $75 and hour and had a waiting list for the consecutive 3 years already booked. If you really want to be an artist….you will find a way. Your heart will start out small and in time….just getting that toe in the door….it will open…and you will be in. In all those years that I drew, I only had to ban 2 teachers and I did have teachers all the way from Texas to Georgia.

I miss them a lot but when it was time to bow out it was hard. If there is anyone out there who wants to do what I did, email me….and I will give you all my ideas, with nothing expected in return. Its been 10 years now since I closed Inspired Ideas down,so I do know the others teachers have moved forward, but last year, when I retired from subsitute teaching, I saw one of the octopus that I had drawn ‘all those years ago’ and I was dumbfounded to see that it was as bright blue as I had made it over 21 years ago. The color is still holding up as beautiful as it was then. Follow your heart. Your dreamwill come true.

A science major asks “How does is work?”
An engineering major asks “How can I make it work better”
An art major asks “Would you like fries with that?”

As if painting is the only artistic medium. They are usually more interested if you say you are an illustrator.