Art school can be a great way to level up your skills, network, and launch your career, but it's equally as valid to take a different path and still be successful! I hope our experiences and insights graduating from public universities and still learning a lot helps to inform you if you are deciding to pursue a higher education in the arts. <3 Best of luck!

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Honestly you mentioning art school has definitely helped me have a idea what it’s like and tbh I’m very grateful, that I chose to not go because it seems overwhelming and plus I self taught my self how to draw for so many years that I now get asked if ill ever go to art school and study which my answer always ends being no because I do have family who are also artists who I sometimes or rarely ask for help with but I mostly use books or the internet to teach me because of all our different art styles so I guess for me there isn’t really a need for me to go unless if they did have a business program for me to learn from or to study.

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As someone who goes to an art college outside of networking the main selling points are

1.) whole ciriculum caters to art so even non art focused classes find ways to tie it back into art (history classes are art history, no math class, science classes are science of color ect.)



2.) resources for example my school has a huge library of art books, comics and offers student use of a riso printer, art studios, light boxes, various paper cutters, and all computers have all adobe programs downloaded and students are given free access to them ect.


3.) more niche classes, when all classes cater to art they can afford to have more niche specific art based electives bc they don’t have to have other subjects to take up class listing.

For example at my school you can take such classes as

- a printing (using riso printer) and zine making class
- history of animation or history of comics classes
- various political classes revolving around art and politics (art and lgbtq+ classes, or art and feminism for example)
- classes where we literally just go to museums and draw
- an elective on toy making
Etc ect.

And

4.). Big names, many art schools have famous people teaching at them as art alone can not pay the bills so your fav artists probably seek out teaching at art specific schools as side work, for example one of my professors very talented man, mentioned he worked on code names kids next store back in the day. Well this may seem like having a teacher like this is only more useful for networking, it’s also useful because it allows you to have teacher will a wider more diverse portfolio on their backs, meaning they can teach you more stuff your art will benefit from. (Which shows bc some of my teachers who didn’t work on any large famous  projects at my school have actively taught me less, than my teacher who worked on kids next door, cus he had more valuable experience under his belt to provide to us my art has benefited from)

Granted all this cost more money and I 100% agree with your message of getting the art education you can afford coming first. 😊

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im not even an art major but this was so informative lol. it's awesome that you took the time to mention bright futures, as you never know who it might help. it feels a bit weird/funny knowing im going to UCF, and you both graduated from there lol

this was very helpful! i was actually stressing out about this earlier today lol cuz of all the family ive been seeing lately and people asking about what i wanna do for college. it’s a good reminder to hear theres no one path, thank you!

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Lowkey the main reason why I want to continue my education and get another degree (I already graduated a bit ago) but in art is because I genuinely cannot do self-taught stuff. After a certain point, I need someone to help me and give me critiques, which I think would be great for me.

The thing that makes me happy most about YouTube is your videos. You are truly a lovely person, and I love your drawing very much, and I hope to become a creative artist like you.

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this was such a good conversation to listen to! the thought of only being able to pursue something as a career if you have a degree is so antiquated with the world we live in nowadays, there are a lot of resources all around the internet and many cheaper options to learn about art (or about anything really, doesn't need to be just art).

I love the way this one was edited. especially the intro!

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The part where you talked about there being no specific timeline for learning and becoming an artist really stuck out to me. I’m going to be a senior in high school next year and I went into high school thinking that I was going to take art all 4 years. My freshman year was the first year back at school in-person after the pandemic and I struggled in all my classes that year, art especially. I ended the year with a D in art because I was always behind on work and couldn’t catch up, I felt terrible and I was too ashamed to try and continue with art the next year. My mental health has improved so much since then, but now that I haven’t taken any art classes since my freshman year (I still draw as a hobby), I have been feeling a bit depressed, feeling like I should’ve continued with art back then. I saw so many beautiful pieces that art students at my school have made in the past year and I felt like I couldn’t catch up. I’ve been more motivated recently to continue drawing and watching your videos ,and this one specifically, has helped me feel so much better. I think I’m going to try emailing my school’s art teacher and ask if I can continue with art next year, thank you for motivating me to keep learning :).

genuinely i am in love with these new videos your posting! they are so interesting and lovely, and yall give such good advice!

i love your videos so much! really helped me get back into the spirit of drawing <3