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this is an amazing post….
i STILL get made fun of for how i draw all the time but i dont draw for those people. i got horrible grades in all the art classes i took cause they didnt like the style i draw comics in and they didnt like my sense of humor. my dad told me to still do it, and said fuck all the teachers… i might not be able to draw crazy awesome but its about doing what you love.
props mr mitchell.
I am posting this awful picture as a reminder to some people who fail to see that it is never too late to become an artist (or whatever it is you want to be.)
I had been drawing since I was a kid, but that was always just hobby stuff, I really never improved past a certain level of skill because I never tried to learn the stuff that matters (anatomy, color theory, composition, etc.) and was too busy copying Rob Liefeld comic covers. I never tried to accomplish anything in high school, passing for me was good enough, so after I graduated I stuck to my job at a grocery store, and worked a few dead end jobs while living with my parents until I was about 20 and realized that I REALLY wanted to become an artist.
I chose to post the bear as an example of how quickly you can make things happen. I made it in 2003, a little over 7 years ago, I was 21 and at the time I thought it was pretty awesome (Obviously, it is pretty NOT awesome.) A couple years later after taking art seriously and going to school I was doing stuff that wasn’t awful. Within a month of graduating, I was able to land a salary job doing concept art for a video game company and was freelancing on the side.
Of course, none of this came easy, I was drawing probably 40 hours a week minimum for 2.5 years while in school, but in retrospect it was a small price to pay. I have been meaning to post this for a while, because I think it’s important. I was told by my high school counselor that going to Cal Arts was basically impossible for someone like me, and while I didn’t go to Cal Arts, I know that I probably could have. There is a notion in this country that grades are everyting and you are supposed to know what you want to do with the rest of your life at 17-18 and I think that is 100% fucking bullshit. I’m 28 now and I am still lost as an adult, but I am happy I took the time to find exactly what I wanted to do, and I couldn’t be happier with the direction my life has gone.
Anyways, if you guys are miserable and leading a life you will one day regret, please fix it!
xoxo -
Mike
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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