#he has a complicated moisturizing routine to get around the same issue that lardo has

[holscm]

art school please!

art school aus are my lifeblood and i honestly CANNOT BELIEVE that i haven’t seen a single outline of one in the omgcp fandom so i am determined to resolve this issue. i mean it’s a tough job but someone’s gotta do it

ok so the most obvious one here is lardo, who in my mind (based on canon) is a sculpture major

has long since given up on the state of her hands, which are always dry as fuck because of chemicals and all the washing

shitty thinks they’re awesome and he loves rubbing them on his face

he also dedicates himself to giving her a hand rub with his Special Lotion every week though bc dry hands start to itch and burn and he isn’t about to let lardo suffer in silence

shitty is art history/criticism and he constantly rants about how much he hates the “mad eurocentric ideals of western canon, brah”

like, we get it, you have white guilt

nursey is a painting major because he’s an angsty little shit and i project everything

known around the studios for his tendency to accidentally drink paint water, forget to wash his brushes, and spill gesso all over his clothes, regardless of whether he’s wearing an apron. A Mess™

he does that thing where he pairs original poems with each of his pieces

it’s cool but pretentious as fuck and dex gives him so much (good-natured) shit for it

speaking of dex, he’s an architecture major bc he likes the idea of designing “real” things that you can touch with your hands

spends a lot of hours in the intd wing in kotter . never sleeps. are those bags or graphite smudges under his eyes. no one knows

bitty keeps him fed in mini pies and sometimes chowder will come do homework with him

tango is interaction design

(i would add more to that but i know literally nothing about interaction design whoops sorry)

chowder is animation!

in the words of @dealwarlock, “he has that Excited Hyperness of someone whos stared @ a computer screen for 30 hrs straight”

he and farmer meet while working in the lab on the same project and it’s love at first .FLA file

whiskey is graphic design/advertising because it’s more “”””practical”””” in the “”””real world”””” (he genuinely enjoys it though)

he and tango spend a lot of hours in the lab together. not always talking, just working on their respective projects and enjoying the company

holster is also graphic design/advertising. his dream job is designing the posters for broadway musicals

secretly would also love to work for buzzfeed but he would never admit it

ransom is illustration with an emphasis in medical illustration

can be found most often in the library (in the basement, where they keep the scientific journals) stressing about human anatomy

met holster because he was the life model for his figure drawing class freshman year

it’s not like, a sexual thing at first bc how could he possibly think of sex when he’s concerned with getting the proportions of this guy’s torso correct

but holster is a good model who is surprisingly skilled at staying still for long periods which is good for ransom bc perfectionist

anyway this is getting long but they start hanging out more and ransom pays him for extra modeling sessions in taco bell and annie’s (and like, actual currency bc crunchwrap supremes don’t pay the bills) and they become Best Buds and eventually more bc there is no au in which holsom are not together,, fight me on this

jack is a photography major trying to live up to his dad, a renowned sports photographer

his favorite sport to photograph is hockey bc his favorite uncle (yes, actual related uncle) plays and he loves watching it

i haven’t figured out who his uncle is yet but feel free to make suggestions

is mysteriously the only student with a key to the darkroom bc adults just instinctively trust him

(shenanigans eventually happen in there)

still loves history. still has anxiety. basically everything else is the same

bitty is art ed, which frequently gets looked down on for being less of a “”serious major”” in art school

has to work to prove himself to his professors and studio art major classmates (read: jack)

junior/senior studio art majors get paired up with a freshman as part of a mentoring thing and GUESS WHO GETS PAIRED TOGETHER

i’ll give you a hint: one is a southern beau with a tendency to bake when he should be making color wheels and whatnot and the other is a brooding canadian who gets tasked with tracking him down so he’ll actually get work done

johnson is the academic advisor who orchestrates all of this