#falloutbards

[kiki-kit]

I think Tumblr is eating asks again is it okay if I use your sprite art from the Grunkle dating sim as an icon w/ credit? : 0

oof yea, i tested it out myself n im definitely missin out on some messages x~x

but ye go for it!

[w2hpositivity]

@pingnova is such a great person in the fandom! They love bringing us together through zines and other projects and have a nice blog

@pingnova

[sockdidxinhissleep]

Sock spilled lipstick in your Valentino white bag in his sleep.

[help-mypartner]

Help I woke up to my partner singing "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran to me on Snapchat and it was one of the most romantic things ever <3

[mochimistress]

BABE U ARE BEAUTIFUL LIKE SO VERY GORGEOUS AND LOVING AND SJDFS i'M GONNA FITE

I COULD SAY THE SAME ABOUT YOU DONT THINK I DIDNT SEE THAT REBLOG BAB E

[mayakern]

Hi! I'm a big fan of your art (it's so cute!!) and today while I was looking at different graduate programs for art I stumbled across MCAD and your alumni profile! What was MCAD like for you and do you recommend the school for others? : 0 --sincerely, an artist with average confidence who wants to get a MFA but is scared of the $$$ tag

thank you! to preface, i don’t have an MFA, just a BFA.

i had a good time at mcad but art school is not for everyone and in hind sight, i’m not sure it was great for me. it’s expensive and scholarships aren’t always reliable. i have a lot of friends who ended up over $100k in debt who aren’t making a living off of art so its hard to look at that and see the price as justifiable. 

art school helped give me structure and helped me steadily improve... but it still didn’t really give me the tools i needed to succeed after school. most of what has helped me succeed as a working artist are things i was doing outside of school, for myself: growing a following online thru fanart, “relatable” comics, my webcomic, and selling at anime conventions, etc. i did take a product design class in college and i interned in product design but i spent most of my internship mailing things and not actually learning a craft (and i wasn’t paid). far and away, i learned much more being out of school than being in school and the resources i found online (friends, tutorials, online courses, etc) all of which cost way less than $100k.

i actually did the math at one point during school when i was debating skipping class one day: if one semester of art school costs $17000 (a year is about $34000 without scholarships) and you take 5 classes in that semester (the average for mcad) and the semester is 15 weeks, then each class you take costs $227 per day (on average, this doesn’t account for classes with different amounts of hours and also doesn’t take into consideration the equipment and other resources a school provides).

art school can introduce you to a lot of new things and people and equipment and can be beneficial and again, i did enjoy mcad a lot, the comics program was really wonderful. my issue is more with higher education in the US in general and i feel like art school, in particular, has such a low rate of return on investment for the hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of your life you can potentially spend to end up working a service industry job you could have gotten with a GED.

one last thing (and keep in mind this is sponsored, tho i actually had no intention of plugging this here until i got this ask haha): if any of y’all want 2 free months of skillshare, they recently gave me an affiliate link. they have classes on  product design, making comics, video editing, composition, product photography, coding and a lot of other really useful skills. my wife and i actually were already using skillshare before they reached out to me, in my opinion it’s a great way to get access to information from a lot of currently working professionals in the art and other industries for not a lot of money (and again, the first 2 months are free)! 

OK end of advertisement, my point is, you don’t need to pay the equivalent of buying a jetpack to get some cool new skills and education (i looked it up, jetpacks are $100k)

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