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Originally Posted by Matthew Severson
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Ah. The line of least resistance. Facts:
1. Today, there's not only "grade inflation", there's "degree inflation". A Bachelor's degree is about equivalent these days to what finishing high school was 50 years ago. It's best to have an undergrad degree in a marketable field, and "art" ain't it.
2. Welcome to the inbred "art world" of the cow-college circuit. Majoring in art for a Baccalaureate degree qualifies you only . . . to continue working towards an MFA, which will qualify you to become a clone of these art instructors you are now looking at with jaundiced eye.
3. Academies? What academies. There are a number of fancy "ateliers" with programs of instruction of more or less value, depending on which is under review. You may learn wonderful things in one of these, but your marketability in terms of finding employment as an illustrator or "artist" in active markets such as films and animation would be questionable.
4. Compared to what the field of "illustration" was even 30 years ago, aspiring to become a 21st century Norman Rockwell is currently about as relevant as deciding to build a fortune making buggy whips.
5. To make your living with a brush, look at trade schools that teach sign work and lettering . . . or beg, borrow, steal, cheat and lie to attend either the Art Center in LA or the Rhode Island School of Design.
6. If you finish college where you're at, and get a degree in business, or something that will make a living, you'll learn more about "art" (given your aesthetic preferences) by reading these boards and other art fora than you will taking art classes at the U. It's a lovely hobby!
Good luck!! (the world is your bivalve mollusk!!)