Just a question

this is for all who is good and like drawing/painting.

Just wanna ask what kind of school are u guys going on?
And what do you want to be in the future?

Also last question: Where/how did you learn to draw/paint?

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I will answer my part:

-Going on engineering school
-I wanted first to be a director but that's too hard, so i choose engineer.
-I learned drawing/painting from watching other's work. And i also learn to draw/paint by doing it alot during my childhood, and at school in language class.

I'm not good but I like visual arts (and anything that's artistic).

Wanted to be a movie director, concept artist, restaurant owner, photograph, rock star but decided to go the safe way and try and become a pharmacist.

- Cegep (sort of like highschool lvl6 +1 year): Health Science Program
- Learned on my own, from watchig other artists' work and getting crit from the good folks at wc3c.

I love you all. Have a nice life. rofl.

I just graduated the art highschool here in Bucharest. I was in the architecture class (although I also had drawing, painting and clay modeling classes). But all that didn't help me at all. I had retardet teachers who were complexed and frustrated fucks. I didn't recieve almoust any feedback (and when I did it was shit, with no explenation) and overall I kinda learned a lot by myself and watching a classmate of mine who's better than anyone I have ever seen. The only good teacher I had was the panting class one this final year. It was realy awsome and was giving good advice. Everything else was a big waste of time.
Now, in 18 days, I'll attend the architecture university and hopefully I'll be in...it's a tough exam I have to take.

In the future I'd like to be an architect, painter, concept artist, animator, modeler (every types of it), lead guitar player in my hopefuly will-be-heard-of band. I don't want to chose from those, I want to be all of those, I can't get enough of any of these and I can't stop doing any of them. I just like it too much. I just wish I had more ambition and be more tenacious...

As I said, I mostly learned everything by myself, except of the great help of very few teachers. The most dramatic improvement I had was back in 2002, when I was in the 8th grade and prepared to go to this art highschool. Then, for half an year I was "trained" by one of the few great teachers of that school. That was the best learning period I ever had. If it weren't for her (the teacher), I wouldn't have entered the highschool. My drawings actualy got worse during highschool, due to the fact that I listened to the most trully stupid fucker teacher in the school. If there's something I regret in my life, then that would be it, following the advice of that teacher during my first years of highschool.

I'm not 'good' and I want to get better.

I dont go to any art schools now, I'm in gr.9 right now. I want to be a videogame conceptional artist and texture artist. I learned to draw on my own.

I was born with it :p. No, seriously!

prove it

well in that case we all were born with it. But we learn trough experience.
Like my first perspective drawing i made was when i was 3 years old, but it isnt got shading and right form.
So maybe i got talent but without learning you cant become good.

Want me to bring tha' teacher?

Moved to Artist Discussion.

I tried illustration, i tried game design, i quit both becouse i couldnt cope with it.

So at the moment i'm in the out-of-work artist business.

Im going into second year of a regular high school at the moment.
I wanted to be a concept artist or designer for a long period of time, but art is recently going downhill, perhaps its my own negative outlook messing with me, but the respect and need for artwork seems to slowly fade with each passing generation. Although more classical art is making a return, the last few decades of cheap comic knockoffs, anime and abstract art have scarred the industry greatly, but hopefuly not beyond repair. Now I'm probably going to attempt freelancing with a backup job of teacher/substitute teacher.
Everything about art I have learned by practicing and receiving criticism online. A diffrent and harsh perspective is sometimes the best learning tool to realize your own mistakes.

The state of the art world isn't completely degrading maybe just the part your looking at. But that shouldn't even be too much of a factor. Great artists still exist and continue to inspire. Abstract is above me and I don't read enugh comics to talk about em, as for anime... I strongly doubt it scarred the "industry". But this gloomy look at the state of "art" should in fact motivate you to "repair" what you think is wrong, show em something new!