I have a very, very difficult time imagining the absence of art in schools :S Sheesh, that'd be taking most fun out of learning. Creativity AND art are unbelievably important.
Are the arts in schools important?
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I don't like hearing that artists make art exclusivly for the money. I know it happens, and you have to use your skills, but it's something I really don't like...
My art teacher always reccomended haveing a day job as well as being an artist. Lots of artists are teachers on the side (Sometimes you get free supplies from the school)
Digital art is so huge now that the market is getting very competetive and companies are looking for THE best of the best. I know because this is the position I am in right now. I am studying to be a film major and will hopefully go into digital animation, and they are very selective about who gets to move on. The fine arts and digital arts are both very difficult in their own way, and neither is something you can just do. It takes hours of hard work and pracitce weekly or so. Having art taught in school allows students to exepriment with many different types of medium and find what they like and don't like. (I cannot paint what-so-ever or draw in pen, but my area is with colored pencils/watercolor pencils and tracing over in pen.)
My art teacher always reccomended haveing a day job as well as being an artist. Lots of artists are teachers on the side (Sometimes you get free supplies from the school)
Digital art is so huge now that the market is getting very competetive and companies are looking for THE best of the best. I know because this is the position I am in right now. I am studying to be a film major and will hopefully go into digital animation, and they are very selective about who gets to move on. The fine arts and digital arts are both very difficult in their own way, and neither is something you can just do. It takes hours of hard work and pracitce weekly or so. Having art taught in school allows students to exepriment with many different types of medium and find what they like and don't like. (I cannot paint what-so-ever or draw in pen, but my area is with colored pencils/watercolor pencils and tracing over in pen.)
Wandering_Fox wrote:
The digital art industry is so scary. I'm so young and behind everyone else; I feel so much pressure to get noticed as soon as possible so I don't keeping lagging behind. I seriously feel like if I don't get into this art book distributed by the top cg society in the world showcasing "the best" art in the industry by the time I'm 21, I don't have a chance of being successful. Because unfortunately it's not just about being the best of the best--it's also about people knowing it. If you don't have the conections, if you aren't recognized, you don't exist.
navate wrote:
That's the other horrible part... It's so hard to get recognized... I'm not even sure about how I'm going to go about doing it... I'm going to start taking classes in computer animation, but I'm not entirely sure where to send a portfolio... My field is backgrounds, as I'm not a very good animator and I can create better scenery then I can animals/people.
The positive side, though, is that there are a ton of different fields that digital art and animation can be used, if you can find them. Film is the biggest, but also there is advertising and business related choices to look at. I want to go into film, though ^^;
Good luck, Navate! Let's do our best!