What advice would you give an aspiring artist?



I am a college student in my sophomore year. I have always been fond of art ever sense I was small. Even though I was always fascinated by art, I never really got into it until my freshman year. Because I am starting out I have the tendency to doubt the capability of ever being a great artist like Jim Lee, Alex...
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
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regards dear jenny, <br>i can assure you that psychology students are far from immune to needing counselling ! not even psychologists are immune. and you could point out to her that at the very least she should be able to learn usefully about herself and about such problems, even if in the process she and her counsellor conclude that she personally has no particular problem. it&#39;ll be valuable practical experience for her ! <br>and maybe print out lindie&#39;s helpful and insighful message, and let her see it, for some valuable first-hand testimony on the value of this process ! my girlfriend is an artist and majored in art and english literature. yet i'm far more well-read than her in literature, am arguably a better artist and writer and of the two of us i'm the one currently in the process of a publishing company startup. she's also agreed hands down that i'm smarter than her despite her being older since i can tell you tons of useless fact shit about geography, history, i know the extensive history behind the opium wars and shit like that whereas when i start down one of these long lectures she'll just stare at me like "uhhh". there are two reasons for this: a: i never felt a classroom conducive to my learning experience (since the education system is fucking shit, it was concieved at the turn of the century during the industrial revolution when little worker bees were needed and the system is therefore a way to create workers, yes men, not leaders and innovators. if there was something i was interested in during my high school days i went out and i learned about it first-hand. i read tons of books that interested me, i went to writer's guild meetings and read about all of the cliche's and processes of the industry. i self-published my first full-length novel when i was 19, it failed spectacularly because i knew next to nothing about marketing, promotion and advertising. so what did i do? i got into sales, started working sales jobs, learning how to market, promote and advertise and reach and engage existing and potential customers. when i decided i wanted to start a publishing company what did i do? went into other publishing companies, introduced myself as their potential competition and asked to go over their processes and strategies with them. i then realized i knew next to nothing about running a business or handling finances... so i got a job as a customer service rep at a bank, essentially a loan officer. handling day-to-day finances, helping out with business accounting and handling customer processes, all the stuff i'd need for my own company. b: i was alone a lot when i was younger. as a kid i had a lot of time to learn because i never spent time partying, having sex or drinking or even hanging out really. i had no one to hang out with. so my time was simply divided between me and... me. i learned everything i needed to and now it's all coming back to benefit me. don't get me wrong my gf's party days (which still continue now) were great, but they deprived her of the potential learning time she could have had to my level. hello thanks for your query

this is moreover a personal query so you have to tell your parents whats your passion is and try to convince them or who knows they might ask you to do what your interested tell the advantages of clat to your parents.

thank you A. It is not a surprise that you feel good when you are high on drugs; that is what they are designed to do. It is one of the main reasons why people use them. They make you feel good but they can ruin your life. Many lives have been destroyed by drug use.

LSD is particularly dangerous. It is a potent drug that has been linked to psychotic disorders. Make no mistake about it, you’re risking your mental health each time you use a drug.

Your drug use has already negatively impacted your life. You have not been officially charged with a crime but you’ve been close. Your luck could change.

You said that you despise school. So do many teenagers, but they still go to school. You’d be hard-pressed to find many teenagers who, if given the choice, would go to school voluntarily. There are many disadvantages to not finishing your basic education. Like drug use, not finishing school will be detrimental to your life.

I strongly urge you to seek counseling and to stop doing drugs. If your drug use continues, you risk getting into trouble and developing mental health problems. A mental health professional can treat the problems you have written about and facilitate your development of important problem solving skills. Please take care.

Dr. Kristina Randle

Help with LSD Abuse A. It’s difficult to assess the seriousness of this on the basis of only a letter so let me just share a couple of thoughts.

People by nature tend to fall somewhere on a scale from introvert to extrovert. It may be that at least part of this is that you are on the introvert end of the scale. There is nothing wrong with that! But, the larger culture celebrates extroverts. In high school, the general idea is that everyone is supposed to be outgoing and popular. Of course, not everyone can be. Not everyone wants to be. So let’s at least assume that part of what goes on is that you have a more restrained approach to life. One thing that supports this is that you do have a couple of close friends and that seems to be enough for you.

As for being out with others: I wonder if you have developed the skills you need to be comfortable out in the social world. Introverts can and do learn how to manage social situations enough so that they can be successful in their careers and can find loving relationships. Notice that I said “skills”. Skills are behaviors you can learn (like how to make small talk, how to be an active listener, how to be a good communicator, etc.). As you get more practiced in these skills, you will be more comfortable being with people for longer periods of time. But you will still need your alone time to “recover” from a lot of social interaction.

The line in your letter that does worry me is your statement that you can spend hours holed up in your room and in bed. Yes, you may need time to recharge your social batteries but it would do a lot more for your self-esteem if you would use that time to pursue an interest or to do something to make the world a better place. Think about ways to support a cause or candidate or to educate yourself about something you are genuinely interested in. You will feel better about yourself than if you just hang out wondering if there is something wrong with you. An important bonus is that it will give you more to talk about when you are with people.

I hope this is helpful. I wish you well.  
 Dr. Marie

I Want or Need to Be Alone juniors. college students are classified the same as high school students. 1st year are freshman. 2nd year are sophomores. 3rd year are juniors, and 4th year are seniors. One difficulty is that it's far from clear what the ideal dropout rate should be. Probably not zero, for two reasons:

 1. Even the best students sometimes find that their interests change over time, in ways nobody could have predicted. Dropping out may become a quite sensible choice, in which case it's harmful for the university to discourage it.
2. It's reasonable for a university to give someone a chance even if it's not certain that they will succeed. The only way to get a really low drop-out rate is to admit just the applicants that are obviously destined for success. The top few schools can get away with this, but if everyone tried it, then many talented candidates would be shut out from graduate school.

 So some attrition is OK, and some is bad but may be a necessary consequence of policies that are on the whole good. The question then becomes how you distinguish these kinds from needless and damaging attrition, and then how you minimize that kind.

 Advisors play a key role here, because some are much better than others at being supportive or motivational. However, at least in mathematics, most advisors don't supervise very many students, so the numbers often aren't large enough to see patterns clearly.

 I'm sure people have studied this problem, and perhaps identified best practices for addressing it. However, in my experience any studies or solutions are not especially influential (at least in the few math departments I've been in). Most discussions are at the stage of trying to figure out whether there is a real problem and if so why, rather than what to do about it. i entered with no major (the "no major" option in community college is "liberal arts"). then, i majored in film after finishing the gen ed courses and going to university. (yeah, i knew it was risky, but i figured i didn't want to regret what i chose in college and wanted a career i could enjoy more than a safe bet.) after six months, i realized that film school is very stupid. but also, they're full of super-woke lefties, so i got the f*ck outta there.i switched my major to english; which is a more employable, more broad version of the same thing. i always wanted to be a writer and producer (still do; honestly; i've written a lot and come up with many show ideas). you can get a job as an entertainment writer with an english degree, but also do so much more. i was wrongfully expelled from my first university and spent three years in a lawsuit against them, which messed up my rate of getting a degree by a lot. i had to start most of my classes all over again in a new university while waiting on the lawsuit. by the time the lawsuit settled out of court for a measly $43,000 (which had a stipulation in it that all of that had to go towards school and tuition; i couldn't get to keep anything for myself), i graduated, and went for my masters in english for another two years. i only just got my masters in may of 2019. so i switched my major twice. now i'm a teacher in korea with a masters in english. i don't regret it, but the unjustified expulsion and lawsuit really f*cked up my path in life by three years. i would say they are a blessing cause it led me to the man i am with now. i started out on online dating really young. my parents were very strict no boyfriend until i am 18.. everyone at school had boyfriends and teased me cause i didn't so i went online and found a guy in indiana and dated him online from the time i was 16 to 18.. he came met me and my parents then i went to meet his parents and thats when i got the concussion that turned my life upside down.. when i was told i would never walk again (so thankful to god that turned out to be false) not even a week later he was gone and good riddance too! when i was 21 i moved to a new area and i grew up very sheltered so i had no idea what i was doing. i was going to be going to college soon after meeting 5 guys dylan, ryan, donald, justin and antonio.. dylan was the only one that understood it was just companionship i was wanting.. the rest wanted to sleep with me. had on my profile getting ready to go into my first year of college would like a loving, caring, thoughtful man by my side but hed have to know college will be my focus for these two years then we have the rest of our lives. but i realized that was too much to ask. went on many one meal dates after i was done college cameron, josh, matt, sean, scott, ben, will, andrew, curtis, trevor. nothing came of them all great guys just not great for me. tried to see dylan again but he wasn't interested he was more depressed couldnt shake him of it.. then i met david he was everything i wanted in his speech but he turned out to just be a fine talker and his actions didn't line up.. so it was hard to get rid of him dated a month took 2 to get in his head i wasn't interested.. then my parents and friends kept trying to set me up. so i thought if i dated someone farther away probably better so i dated jean-francois well i got a surprise im here message one saturday and he was great just when i went to his place i didn't feel at home he had no interest in moving here and i didn't want to move there he kept trying to pressure me to so i lied to him said i wanted my roommate since he kept on thinking we were involved but no taylor was like a big brother to me.. he wanted me to get a new place nothing ever made him happy technology wise if a new thing came out he had to have it making fun of my a5 phone yes its old but it still works :) so i felt almost not good enough for him.. then i dated another david online i never got the opportunity to meet i would really like to meet! he is absolutely amazing i think but after being misled before i didn't want to risk moving. then decided well fuck i must be the problem guys in person wanted to date me but if we dont agree on fundamentals there's no future! a guy online you can discuss these things better to ask what they are looking for then answer that question cause you could get played. so i took 6 months to myself avoided all family functions.. i prayed every day god would lead me to my husband.. i only dated guys i could see myself married to or if they convinced me they deserved a shot. i didn't ever want to date just to date. i wanted the next guy i dated to be my husband and we met on okcupid and was on the app less than a week when i met him felt like i always knew him and i just knew this is it and a year and 9 months still going strong. so as long as your prepared for things to not go as you expect your fine.. the guys i dated online were 100x better than the guy i dated that was a customer at my work. online your safer behind a screen and you meet in a public place after one meal you should have a good feeler on the person. its easier to say i think your a great person but i dont think wed be a great match because... i wish you the best of luck.. hope you find what your looking for.. they usually say thanks you too! friends or associates you already know in person are more stubborn and take things more personally when you dont think they are your type.