Art School Dropout

[gret-ry]

Thank you for sharing your art while it lasted, and I hope life brings newer and better things for you!

I initially didn't see this but I really appreciate the kind words!

Art will always be there, just not at the forefront.

[gret-ry]

Hey guess what!

This is a defunct blog now!!!

I dropped out!!

[valtsv]

oh and that gap in my resume is when i was digging my own grave

[valtsv]

the dirt under my nails is - yeah. it won't wash out. although that's actually from when i dug myself out again. i suppose success and defeat can look the same in a mirror.

[sabertoothwalrus]

I am being so serious when I say: if you have the financial and time privilege to get a group of friends together and make an indie project, PLEASE do. Indie games, indie animations, indie comics etc etc

the art industries are kind of in the shitter. It’s not so much because of AI (though that doesn’t help) but because studios just aren’t hiring people and funding projects anymore. People who’ve been in the industry for decades are finding themselves struggling, and once you have a mortgage or kids it’s harder to do something as risky as making something on your own.

completing projects is hard. it takes a lot of time and effort, and most people can’t afford it. so if you CAN afford to make art, even at the risk of no financial gain, I strongly encourage you to be as resilient as you can. We’re at a point where these industries are not going to turn around by themselves, and waiting for jobs to open up again in order to get experience and portfolio work might not be realistic.

people have been making art and telling stories longgggg before we were getting paid for it, and people aren’t going to stop just because no one has hired them to do so.

for everyone else: support indie artists when you can!!!! That person who made that cool indie game or youtube animation or webcomic might be doing this full time! your support might be the only reason they’re able to keep doing it.

and if you have already started an indie project: you’re so brave and I’m very proud of you!!! in fact, drop a link to it in the reblogs if you want! 👇

[unbearable-swagger]

I will be like "I'm fine" and then another fucking event will occur

[gret-ry]

How long have I been away?

[heavensickness]

Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me

[gret-ry]

Awesome! This will affect me so much I’m going to go stare at a blank wall

[unbearable-swagger]

I will be like "I'm fine" and then another fucking event will occur

[unbearable-swagger]

I will be like "I'm fine" and then another fucking event will occur

[unbearable-swagger]

I will be like "I'm fine" and then another fucking event will occur

[unclefather]

[girldante]

[gret-ry]

I was not meant to be an adult I was meant to die under mysterious circumstances before the events of the story and haunt the narrative

[gret-ry]

My medication got refilled

[knightsickness]

literally any upper middle class tiktok self-identified ‘that girl’ in a pastel workout set with a thirteen step skincare routine and a green juice is a million times closer to being patrick bateman irl than any self-identified sigma film bro

[dipyronegirl]

op managed to swing a bat at 2 hornets nests in one go

[birdcagesandbutterflies]

now that i am a real adult i am starting to realise. media lied to me about the availability of rooftops to go hang out on. every day i wish i could be hanging out on a rooftop somewhere looking cool as fuck

[gret-ry]

college drop out core