What is something everyone should know how to do at age 30?
Shut your mouth. Not every thought is appropriate in every situation. Know what to say and when it's okay to say it
33 is not old. have kids whenever you are ready. 29 years My advice to you is keep creating art! You said "I do not care about fame and fortune". If that statement is true, then creating art should be about having a hobby that you are good at! Some people have hobbies as playing an instrument, sewing, jewelry making, wood carving, etc., the list goes on and on. Your hobby is creating art. A hobby will bring you joy when life/times get hard, plus if you are good at your hobby, it will bring admirers along the way, whether it is a few admirers or alot of admirers. Keep creating art because it is never to late to have a hobby - something that brings you joy!   

  

In order to progess as an artist, you need to study composition, design, color theory, perspective, light & shade. These subjects are taught in art schools. If you study the information in the following books and put it to practice your artwork will really POP and can stand up with the professional artists! Also, every subject has been painted over and over by many artists, so the only way to stand out as unique and the best is to learn GOOD design/composition and color theory! Arrange your elements in a pleasing composition with a beautiful color scheme. Buy books at Amazon website.   

  

For BEGINNERS, buy these books:   

1. Pictorial Composition by Henry Rankin Poore   

2. Exploring Color: How To Use And Control Color In Your Painting by Nita Leland   

3. Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out Of Color Theory by Stephen Quiller   

4. Perspective by William F. Powell   

5. Light, Shade, & Shadow by E.L. Koller   

Explains how the subject is lighted: Side Lighting, Three Quarter/Conventional Lighting, Frontal/Front Lighting, Top/Overhead Lighting, Back/Rear/Rim Lighting, Diffused Lighting.   

6. All the drawing/painting books by Lee Hammond explains light & shade, the 5 values on an object: Cast Shadow, Shadow Edge, Halftone, Reflected Light, Full Light.   

  

For ADVANCED studies, buy these books:   

1. Design Basics by David A. Lauer & Stephen Pentak   

The 8th edition (published 2011) is expensive but you can buy a USED copy of the 7th edition (published 2007/2008) for alot cheaper.   

2. Color Workbook by Becky Koenig   

The 3rd edition (published 2009) is expensive but you can buy a USED copy of the 2nd edition (published 2006) for alot cheaper.   

3. Interaction Of Color: New Complete Edition by Josef Albers (published 2010)   

4. Creative Color by Faber Birren   

  

Buy the book, 2011 Artist's And Graphic Designer's Market by Mary Burzlaff Bostic at Amazon website or check out this book's official website called ArtistsMarketOnline. This book has been in print since 1975 and is considered a complete resource for artists. This book is updated every year to include the current contact and submission information for tons of places, such as greeting card companies, publishers, art fairs, art galleries, and more. It will tell you how and where to sell your artwork.   

  

Buy the book, Legal Guide For The Visual Artist by Tad Crawford at Amazon website (fifth edition, published 2010). This book gives in-depth information on legal issues facing artists such as copyright, artist-gallery relationships, legal forms, contracts, leases, licensing, sales, taxes, how to find professional advisers/attorneys, how to negotiate, and much more!   

  

MARKETING ARTWORK:   

Open an account on photo sharing or video sharing websites (YouTube, Flickr, etc.) that gets HIGH volumes of traffic everyday! Post a FEW of your BEST artworks on these sites. The goal is to remain active by posting comments to get more exposure! If you post comments on other people's pictures or videos, they will more than likely check out your account as well. After each comment, type your name, Example: John Doe, Watercolor Artist. Also, use as MANY tags as possible so your photos/videos can be found by alot of people! Use a picture of your BEST ARTWORK as your AVATAR. You can't state that you sell artwork on these sites because they generally don't allow commercialism, so simply type your email or website address under your profile, so people can contact you directly about your artwork.   

  

Do your research and make sure the company is reputable before giving out your personal information!   

  

Upload a high resolution image of your artwork and the company will reproduce the artwork as prints and other items. They will create and ship the items to your customers and pay you when someone buys your items. Some of these websites allow you to sell your original handmade artwork or photographs also.   

  

1. ArtSlant (sell original art also)   

2. Artist Rising (sell original art also)   

3. Artspan (sell original art also)   

4. ArtWanted (sell original art also)   

5. ArtyBuzz   

6. CafePress   

7. DeviantArt   

8. DPC Prints   

9. Fine Art America (sell original art also)   

10. FotoMoto   

11. ImageKind (sell original art also)   

12. MySoti   

13. Pixpa (sell original art also)   

14. Qoop   

15. Red Bubble   

16. Saatchi Online (sell original art also)   

17. Society6   

18. Zazzle 1. Exceeding the speed of light.   

2. Counting to Infinity.   

3. Solving the 15 puzzle.   

4. Squaring the circle.   

5. Doubling the cube.   

6. Bench-pressing 100000000000000000000000000 pounds.   

7. Stealing the Lincoln Memorial.   

8. Teaching a legless man to tap dance.   

9. Finding a unicorn in your backyard.   

10. Traveling back in time through sheer willpower.   

11. Eating yourself.   

12. Finding a Pikachu.   

13. Bringing a dead person back to life.   

14. Living forever.   

15.Reproducing through asexual budding.   

16. Jumping over the Empire State Building.   

17. Shooting lasers through your eyes.   

18. Being in two places at once (unless you're a subatomic particle).   

19. Licking your elbow.   

20. An elephant jumping.   

21. A dog learning French.   

22. A cat learning Spanish.   

23. A horse learning Italian.   

24. Regrowing a severed arm (for humans).   

25. A woman fathering a child.   

26. A baby without an X chromosome in the 23rd pair surviving.   

27. Curing anencephaly.   

28. Surviving with a 200 temperature.   

29. Escaping from a black hole.   

30. Skateboarding without a skateboard.   

31. The following sentence making sense: This sentence is false.   

32. Literally achieving the impossible.   

33. A man with no testicles fathering a baby.   

34. A woman with no uterus giving birth to a baby.   

35. Truly destroying matter or energy.   

36. A person having three biological parents.   

37. The existence of a plane with zero thickness.   

38. A postmenopausal woman conceiving.   

39. Uncracking an egg.   

40. Unburning a piece of firewood.   

41. Knowing everything.   

42. Traveling at a negative speed.   

43. Having a negative mass.   

44. Knowing all of the digits of pi.   

45. Knowing the last digit of e.   

46. Being able to do anything.   

47. Undetonating a bomb.   

48. Finding two integers whose quotient is pi.   

49. Creating a polynomial in one variable x for which the natural numbered values of x will exactly yield the prime numbers.   

50. Creating a triangle in Euclidean space for which the sum of the measures of the three angles is not 180.   

51. Drinking all the water in the ocean.   

52. Surviving with no blood at all in your body.   

53. Creating a perfect pangram that is also palindromic.   

54. Finding an even prime number other than 2.   

55. Getting the gold cat medal on the first stage of the second world of Blinx with the default sweeper.   

56. Creating a right triangle in Euclidean space which does not satisfy the Pythagorean Theorem.   

57. Defying gravity outright.   

58. Finding a sequence of 12 prime numbers that are all exactly 1 apart.   

59. Two objects occupying the same space at the same time.   

60. Going back in time and killing your mother before your own birth.   

61. Seeing ultraviolet light with the naked eye.   

62. Holding your breath for 46 years.   

63. Magic.   

64. Running 46000 miles per hour.   

65. Turning into a jar of apple sauce.   

66. Curing HIV.   

67. Curing Alzheimer's.   

68. Curing genital herpes.   

69. A tiny one-inch tall man living in your nostrils.   

70. Having a head one thousand times larger than your body.   

71. Finding the largest number.   

72. Getting out of checkmate.   

73. Winning Monopoly when all of your properties are mortgaged and you have no money left.   

74. Having a conversation with a blurry photograph of the Loch Ness monster.   

75. Knowing for sure what happened to Amelia Earhart.   

76. A skeleton break-dancing.   

77. Gouging out your own eyes and still being able to see.   

78. Surviving being on the surface of the sun for 12 hours.   

79. Surviving for 19 years without water.   

80. Finding the letter e in the book "Gatsby".   

81. Biting your own neck.   

82. Eating with your mouth glued shut.   

83. Digging to the center of the earth with your bare hands.   

84. Swimming all the way across the Atlantic Ocean without ever stopping.   

85. Being recoginzed as a country by the United Nations without having a government.   

86. A quadraplegic winning a marathon.   

87. Spontaneous combustion.   

88. Measuring a volume smaller than the Planck length.   

89. Making a sound in space.   

90. Finding out for sure who Jack the Ripper was.   

91. Life on Earth existing without the sun.   

92. Flying by flapping your arms.   

93. Spelling the word "extraneous" correctly without using the letter x.   

94. Ghosts.   

95. Vampires.   

96. Werewolves.   

97. Phrenology being right.   

98. Calculating the first 1 quadrillion digits of pi by hand.   

99. Knowing the largest prime number.   

100. A duck fathering a snake.   

101. A snake fathering a duck.   

102. Dragons existing.   

103. Looks killing.   

104. Bringing your imaginary friends into existence.   

105. A 25-letter pangram.   

106. Two men having vaginal intercourse.   

107. A transwoman having a baby.   

108. Gay marriage in the state of Georgia.   

109. A man being 300 feet tall.   

110. A crocodile milking its young.   

111. Organisms deliberately evolving.   

112. Surviving a 440-decibel blast of sound.   

113. Polygamy in the state of Georgia.   

114. Surviving AIDS without treatment or medical attention.   

115. A 27-letter perfect pangram.   

116. Zeus some do probably. others are just more conservative and don't think that women sleeping around is a good thing. although some of those are probably hypocrites who watch a lot of porn and would love to have sex with a lot of women if they could, not all of them though. you're also off on the idea that everything is entirely up to women, and that the power dynamic will flip when you're older. neither of these things are true at all. it's not entirely up to women or else women would never get hurt, and the whole power dynamic flipping at 30+ thing is a cope for guys who can't get laid in their 20s. all you can do is do your best and aim as high as you possibly can. everybody has limitations, not everybody can "win". there will always be somebody better than you in some way: taller, better looking, more money. it doesn't matter, because most people don't even strive for greatness.maybe you run that marathon and you come in like 20th or something. you didn't win. but you came 20th out of thousands of people. those thousands of people also trained, and are fitter than the average person. they guy/girl who came in 1000th, 2000th, 3000th, 10,000th place is fitter than the average person. the average person doesn't exercise at all. the average person could barely run a half a marathon, they couldn't even complete that.the same goes everywhere else. i like to lift weights. plenty of guys are bigger and stronger than me. but i'm much stronger than the average guy. 65% of guys are obese. of the remaining 35%, the majority are scrawny and out of shape. simply lifting weights regularly, eating right, and having the discipline to do that sets you apart from probably 80% of men in that area.that's all that's really required. hey. this new generation can just get in line and wait your turn. my generation is still waiting for these exact same changes promised 30 years ago!

jimmy carter and a democratic administration are pledged to bring about the changes we need:

putting limits on how much the doctors and the hospitals can gouge medicare and medicaid and the public. nobody should have to pay $700 a day for a hospital room or $65 to walk into a doctor's office.

making the rich pay their fair share of taxes like everybody else.

the economy: to get the economy moving again by providing a job for every american who wants to work and by bringing inflation under control.\

energy: to establish a coherent energy policy, and to increase emphasis on coal production and increased research on renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind and geothermal. to lead in directing a voluntary conservation program.

welfare reform: to establish a streamlined, simplified welfare system with strong work incentives that promote family stability. to take those able to work out of the system and provide them job training and a job. to give those who cannot work because of age or disability nationwide, fairly uniform benefits varying only according to the cost of living from area to area.

environment: to maintain strong environmental protection laws. to protect against relaxation of our current standards for air quality, water quality or automotive emissions. to preserve the natural heritage of america, and to turn over to future generations a country that is environmentally sound.

education: to increase the federal share of the total cost of education. to assure that the average american family can afford to send their children to college.

agriculture: to develop an agriculture policy which insures farmers a predictable and fair return for their labor, yet is fair to the american consumer. to avoid the republican policy of embargoes on farm products, and aggressively develop our export markets abroad.

tax reform: to move toward a truly progressive and simplified tax system, with reduced tax rates for the average american.

elderly: to recognize that elderly constitute one of our most precious resources. to insure adequate income for retirement; to increase housing for the elderly. to relax mandatory retirement laws. to work or subsidies for reduced fare on public transportation for the elderly.

health care: to establish a comprehensive national health program which will make adequate health care a right for all people, be uniform in scope, and preserve the private relationship between doctor and patient.

defense: to guarantee the security of our nation -- a guarantee of freedom from the threat of successful attack or blackmail and the ability with our allies to maintain peace.

foreign policy: to stop treating our allies as if they were our adversaries. to make it clear that detente is a two-way street. to promote human rights abroad and to deal affirmatively with the social and economic problems of the developing world. to make our total commitment to the security of israel as a jewish state absolutely clear.



reorganization: to reorganize completely the executive branch of government, making it fair, efficient, effective and responsive to out people's needs.


http://www.4president.org/brochures/cart... guilt is rarely a useful response after one has recognized that whatever one did was indeed wrong - the valuable response is then to go on and work out why it was wrong, what to learn from it, and how to avoid doing that again. 
<br/>loneliness is tough, and our society isn't kind to lonely people. and the media ( songs, tv, etc., sells to us an image of lerv that few of us achieve and which isn't actually as practical, easy and desirable as they represent it as. at least phone sex, so long as you limit it to that, is safe sex. 
<br/>work on developing friendships, at work, at church, through voluntary work, hobbies, whatever, and be open to the possibility of love when it turns up. 
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<br/> have to be ready to change your mindset. then you must do new shit to distract you. At your age, it's tough because girls (and young people on a whole) are so fixated on things like physical appearance and social standing among peers. These are things that become less important as you get even just barely older, particularly the latter as no 22+ year old cares if you're "popular". That said, just work on your dating and conversation skills. Find some really fat, ugly girl and take her out on dates. The whole time, act like she's the most beautiful, most interesting girl you've ever met. Come up with things to talk about, jokes to say, and places to take her. All this refinement will come in handy when you hit your stride and the girls you take out find that you're just more interesting and fun than all the other guys that they've gone out with. It'll work, I promise.