onizuka-gto wrote:rpapo wrote:When my daughter was a teenager, she was big into drawing. She did great on almost anything non-human, but everything human wound up looking like something from anime. Her art teachers did not appreciate that . . .
LOL!
Love it! Sounds like your Daughter is going to be a great mangaka!
Which doesn't say much about her art teacher...
Agreed, but that was a long time ago. She eventually had to choose: art or something she could earn a living off of. She chose business, and now works as a production scheduler for one of the regional steel mills. Leisure time, though, is largely spent in cos-play type activities like Renaissance Faires and Steampunk Expositions. "Speak like a Pirate" day around here is fun for her, since it's an excuse to dress up. Her drawing abilities now get used mostly in designing costumes.
onizuka-gto wrote:Well, art is a matter of taste after all, i remember i was rubbish in art lesson when i was in High School, couldn't draw anything human/life-like for my life, but i had a great knack of drawing mechanical things.
My art teacher was great, she appreciated my style. She did encourage me to try to fulfil the brief of the task but make it more my mechanical style and gave me the freedom to draw my own things during class, not once scolding me for not following the traditional drawing we were doing in class. In short, her encouragement allowed me to pass her class, but also gave me confidence in my own drawing abilities which eventually helped me follow my industrial/product design career.
In the end, you need to choose a career that interests you, and that you can have fun with. The unfortunate reality of things, though, dictates that you must also choose something that other people are willing to pay you to do, and it helps a lot if you don't have millions of other people wanting to do the same thing at the same time. Your earnings are the combination of how good you are, and how little competition you have in what you do. A lot of life's problems melt away when you have a good income . . . so long as you don't sell your soul to get it.
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I used to draw the pics from them...must say, I was pretty good in it 
I didn't even leave my bag also from it 
