10-04-2012, 08:27 PM
So yeah.
Let me tell you a story.
There once was this girl living in the Netherlands. She is 23 years old and has a little hamster. From a very young age she was obsessed with drawing. It started out by tracing Donald Duck comic books, drawing Pokemon and Digimon and (later on) making creatures, characters and comics. Her ultimate dream was to become famous with art. She imagined that later on (when she was around 21 or so) the shops would be stuffed with products featuring her cartoons, comics and so on. To make this dream happen, she went to art school. Unfortunately it did not work out due to some ex-boyfriend, a disease and some parents that do not understand. Completely disoriented she signed in for a Computer Engineering course. The first two years were bearable, even though the projects were no fun at all. Still drawing at her free time, she believed she still could make a creative career.
Then the third year came. In this year she had to work full-time as a programmer. That did not go so well. The disease came back way more severe than ever before. It was at this time that she decided that she should get serious about art and joined Conceptart.org to start a sketchbook. Two years later she finished the course and got a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. That makes her an “engineer” now, but she refuses to use that title. She actually wanted to burn the diploma, but parents thought it would be wise to save it in a closet. At the moment she is freelancing away, trying to get some clients and study to make her dream come true. It is not working well yet, most clients do not respond, do not like to pay or offer very low fees. Yet she refuses to give up.
Well, you probably get it. The girl in this story is me. Yes, I wasted four years (if not more) on the wrong education. I wasted even more years by not knowing how to improve. I wasted countless years by not being productive enough. I would like to change that. That is where your course comes in. I expect to be working harder than ever before, to finally think critical about my work and to hopefully make sure I can throw away that bloody engineering diploma. With this course I hope to become a professional artist. My dream job would be character designer for a game studio, but actually EVERY creative job is awesome to me.
Oh, did I mention I do not feel my disease when I draw? It has been motivating and demotivating me for years now (it is a chronic thing).
My sketchbook is here: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread....___/page32
Let me tell you a story.
There once was this girl living in the Netherlands. She is 23 years old and has a little hamster. From a very young age she was obsessed with drawing. It started out by tracing Donald Duck comic books, drawing Pokemon and Digimon and (later on) making creatures, characters and comics. Her ultimate dream was to become famous with art. She imagined that later on (when she was around 21 or so) the shops would be stuffed with products featuring her cartoons, comics and so on. To make this dream happen, she went to art school. Unfortunately it did not work out due to some ex-boyfriend, a disease and some parents that do not understand. Completely disoriented she signed in for a Computer Engineering course. The first two years were bearable, even though the projects were no fun at all. Still drawing at her free time, she believed she still could make a creative career.
Then the third year came. In this year she had to work full-time as a programmer. That did not go so well. The disease came back way more severe than ever before. It was at this time that she decided that she should get serious about art and joined Conceptart.org to start a sketchbook. Two years later she finished the course and got a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. That makes her an “engineer” now, but she refuses to use that title. She actually wanted to burn the diploma, but parents thought it would be wise to save it in a closet. At the moment she is freelancing away, trying to get some clients and study to make her dream come true. It is not working well yet, most clients do not respond, do not like to pay or offer very low fees. Yet she refuses to give up.
Well, you probably get it. The girl in this story is me. Yes, I wasted four years (if not more) on the wrong education. I wasted even more years by not knowing how to improve. I wasted countless years by not being productive enough. I would like to change that. That is where your course comes in. I expect to be working harder than ever before, to finally think critical about my work and to hopefully make sure I can throw away that bloody engineering diploma. With this course I hope to become a professional artist. My dream job would be character designer for a game studio, but actually EVERY creative job is awesome to me.
Oh, did I mention I do not feel my disease when I draw? It has been motivating and demotivating me for years now (it is a chronic thing).
My sketchbook is here: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread....___/page32