a little comic about art and success; don’t limit yourself to what people have already done!
try not to get too discouraged when the path you had in mind isn’t working out.
when I was in my senior year, I applied to a private art school and got in. I thought this was cool! but the price tag was huge, and even all of the scholarships I could manage didn’t begin to put a very good dent in it. even with near perfect grades my first year of college!
so fast forward about a year and a half in, when none of the classes I got were remotely to do with why I was even going to art school, I quit. there’s a stigma about dropping out of school - as if you’re “failing”! but that’s absolutely bogus. you need to do what *your* path calls for, and the longer you delay that, the longer you delay getting to where *you* are going.
sometimes art school is absolutely right for someone and they get everything they need from it and they meet people who become lifelong friends etc… but sometimes it’s a huge, huge moneysink for no real gain. and you know what?
we have the goddamn internet, where you can post your work and gain an audience for FREE on a multitude of websites. it’s fine if you have to do something non-art to support your art passion. that’s fine! that might be your path! and that’s really cool!
but please, please don’t let us lose what you could become because you get so distracted by not being able to take the path of another – by not getting that job you want, not getting into that school you want, etc… there’s always something else out there waiting for you to go and snatch it, there’s always a path waiting for you
too many people cut their creativity short because they can’t get over the disappointment of not being able to follow that way in front of them, and that’s a horrible, horrible shame, because you guys have so many amazing stories and pieces just waiting within you to be released, but you have to realize you have that potential and work to unlock it
you can definitely do it as long as you keep moving
