fifty-two fridays: week 29:100%

Friday, January 11, 2008

week 29:100%

when i was in art school i used to get a's on assignments.

now one of my jobs duties entail serving people coffee.

i am 100% sure that i made a mistake in choosing my school and i regret the last six years of my life.

posted by patrick at 1:50 AM

7 Comments:

lavandula said...: what you're saing! I have just opposite feelings, I finished landscape architecture, I like it but I still regret that I wasn't finish art school; 3:12 AM
Miz K said...: Such a shame about your regret - you have a great style!; 3:31 AM
Time Lincoln said...: I like the cartoonish style, nice concept for 100% too.; 5:09 AM
FULLCRAZE said...: good art work and it was a good idea to relate it to ur own life; 10:09 AM
nullandvoid said...: don't discount yourself too much. You got a degree in animation? yeah, the market sucks for animators, but. even in crappy markets, there are still opportunities. you just have to find it in unconventional ways.

You got a pencil, draw some pencil studies, slap it onto youtube. link it to a portfolio site. hook up with other animators that are out of the job and do a 5 minute feature colab. keep your creative gears humming and your skills sharp.

Craig Thompson had a crappy job, but every night he would come home and just draw a comic about his life, and for 4 years, he did just that. The 600 page memoir is now considered one of the best examples of modern american story telling. It took him years, and I'm sure he thought about giving up, but his drive to create kept him going. and the payout was priceless. Blankets is an international best seller. and it was because of the crappy job that gave him the motivation to do it all.

What I'm saying is, get that fire inside, and throw your weight into it. you work at starbucks as a barista, but you are not a barista. you are an animator. Be who you are, and don't give up :)

-from one patrick to another; 12:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Yeah! Everything Patrick said!!! Do not let your fire go out!; 8:21 PM
usws said...: At least you can draw! Does that help? *runs*; 6:29 PM