Yes, It's all ham!

[Dominicque]

@crowbit: It's so long ago I can't remember what my username let alone profile picture was! But I do remember you :D
@Dominicque: Thank you ^__^ I owe a lot of what I know to the atelier I was studying at a couple years ago. Good times! Very happy to delve back into digital and illustration work also though. 

Studies dump from the days where I had time / energy post work! :) Also just found out that I was invited for interview for a school that teaches game design which I'm excited about, out of hundreds of applicants I'm so blessed to have been chosen. Fingers crossed I do well on the actual interview :')

Ahh, why is it every artists that has bomb transitions AtelierMaxxed? You, El Coro, Miles... I really feel like I need to train at an atelier. But, they are either too far and or expensive.   I've discovered Vitruvian studio, even though I would love it live and in person. I hope it would be enough.
Congrats on making it to the interview round! I'm not surprised with your honed level of skill. We've love to know how you do. 

ah hell ye!!!!!
I can't even imagine having a teacher that can actually paint. UK schools need an upgrade in technical ability =.=
SMASH THAT INTERVIEW!!!

Bruh, don't even get me started on UK art education. It's the only subject when the actual teacher doesn't need to be good at their own subject. I know 'academic art' had a chokehold on art education for 100s of years that felt stifling, but now it seems all art teachers can teach is the expressive, "go with your feelings approach'. So, when a student asks for more technical knowledge, the art teacher's- who are paid to teach art, can't give them the answers they need- because they weren't taught those skills, either!

Looking at higher education it's worse when it comes to Fine Art (unsurprisingly most of those 'Why I dropped out of/hated art school' are from those that picked that as their main course. I saw one video where a girl was trying to think of what to do for a crit and someone just brought rubbish and chatted shit about it and got kudos for 'thinking outside the box'. I'm trying to have good art and then a peers gets asspats for that?! I'd be livid. Where is my money going? GCSE and A-Level art was enough, thank you!). 

For those into comics and concept art, an Illustration degree is better, but even then not the best. Not when most tutors are either newspaper cartoonists, editorial illustrators or graphic designers-cum-illustrators where their art is mostly the corporate memphis flat vectored style. They may be great a teaching you to work with clients and how to develop a project, but again if you want tutoring and critique on form, value, anatomy and composition? Outside of colour, your fresh out of luck. It's just not needed for that field of work, so they don't teach it. You could try a specific degree in Comics and Concept Art, but you can count them on one hand and they still might not give you the technical expertise you desperately want. So, the autodidact route it is, or supplementing it with additional online courses. Which can be dear!