At 5/12/11 09:38 PM, Luxembourg wrote:
College major discussion? Interesting.
You know how there are kids who want to major in fine art and their parents refuse to allow them because there are no jobs in it? My situation is the opposite.
Yeah, my parents are pretty supportive of my endeavors in the art field.
My father wants very badly for me to do art for my living, and while I'd enjoy that, I don't want to go down that road because it's incredibly risky and lacks any security whatsoever. I don't want something that I'm guaranteed to always make X amount in, but I don't want to starve either.
I'm kind of concerned about that too.. I'm really interested in the art/design field, but am incredibly scared of ending up a poor/failed man due to competition/lack of interest from clients.
However, I am considering something at least somewhat similar, like others here have mentioned, in Design.
That's what I want to do as well! I think being a designer/advertiser/more business/marketing oriented artist would be cool.
My older brother is a professional graphic designer and he enjoys his work, and he's been influencing my thoughts towards that. It's still a pretty precarious career option, but there seems to be much more work available in design then in fine art.
Yeah, I am not really planning on any "fine art" type of job because that is just relying solely on artistic talent and how many people buy your paintings. Hey, you could end up like squidward.