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I ADORE your art. I love how you use color and just your style is SO jgpgdgdjldfjtuzifs

Anyways, I'm curious if you went to school to learn art or you taught yourself!

I did go to art school, but it wasn't to learn art! I went to art school to learn how to. uh. make comics. specifically, the technical, production, and business aspects of it! (also thank you!)

#fully recommend no one ever goes to art school if they're in america bc it sucks here. the loan debt is NOT worth it #and very rarely do people actually care abt ur art school degree. its about your portfolio. art school is only good for connections #and you can make those in other ways without the crushing weight of student loan debt and interest #HEUGHGHH NOT TO GO ON A SOAP BOX TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE STATE OF ART SCHOOL. anyway #art school had very little impact on my style tbqh #the biggest impacts style wise that school had on my were the figure drawing and painting classes #but that's because i didn't have access to live figure drawing where i was living before #and painting was an eye opener bc i couldn't afford to take a chance on oil painting until it was a class requirement #i think artists at heart are self taught bc art is a dialogue with thousands of years of history #all art school can do is speed up or condense that conversation #everything is already out there in the world so all that's left is to pick up a pencil and see what happens #more specifically ive been drawing since i was 5 (crayons baby) but i started to take it more seriously in highschool bc it was #the only thing i was good at so i started looking up the old masters and studying their techniques #and reading art history books at the public library to find out what's been going on in art for the last thousand years #ask tag

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