Oh I hate questions like that at job interviews. It's like, Dude. I do not want to work here for my health, I want to work here solely for the money!
It's like, they want to reward lying!

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I know what you mean with the questions. I been dealing with them alot lately.

Well I like how you draw & I think your WAY betetr then I so...
Maybe you should see in doing your own work, for maybe a book or something? I been trying to do so & I been haveing a hard time drawing forms as of late. I havent been drawing really for the past 3 years that why I lack so much on DTP.

I think it's in part because it was a trainee thing, not a regular job. Dunno if I should fix that or just go with it, if indeed they found me motivated enough.

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Interviews are essentially retarded people being paid not to work anywhere else (places they have the potential to mess something up). It's a pity job, in their case. As far as you are concerned, I would say honesty is the best policy.

And this crap looks like a journal that belongs on my front page, minus FAGGY. I don't say that word, I prefer heterodyslexic. But seriously, whining about your wonderful drawings is not allowed. Anyone can go to school and learn the technical side of things, they can learn to draw or paint or be faggish with design, but those same people may go their whole lives and waste all that training because they don't have an artistic spark. All of us feel the same, trust me. I feel like the biggest failure because I'm still not in school. And from every corner, it's "Hurry up and decide what you want to do with your life! You're already 21!" Like life ends at 18 and the death sentence begins. because that's exactly what I want-- to hurry up and work until I die. For what? For money.

Pardon my french, but fuck that shiz. There are way better things to work for. I choose to scrape by working three days a week when i could easily have two full-time jobs. But would I have any time to do the things I enjoy? No. in the end it boils down to your priorities and motivation (and a little more, your self confidence). If I had faith in my art I would be making money from it. Too bad I only enjoy creating it and not hawking it to strangers. xDDD If it's any consolation, I think your art is awesome possum. Don't ever stop just because you don't know design history. They're full of shit anyway.

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Really? I'm sure he was the boss around there ;o

I dunno. I realise the word faggy can have connotations such as "the writer is a homophobe", and whilst I could elaborate on that, I am here referring to faggyness, not homosexuality. Heterodyslexic?
But you know, my lack of those technical basics are limiting, for example I can't really draw body perspective. And by the way I dont really know a school that offers teaching them to me. Yeah, I get the life ends at 18 thing, buh. There's this huge demand to be popular and successful, huh. Or something.

Yeah, so, I dunno. I should get a full/part time job and draw in my free time, but look how well my friggin interviews are going.

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Well, I'm at the (kind of) same place right now! Let's party!

No, really. I'd suggest you try to find a job you'll at least partly enjoy. The longer I had to look for a job, the more eager I was just to have anything, and it didn't turn out well. It makes it harder to find a job that way, but you might actually retain your soul. (Let's just say that being a bank teller was not it for me; though the money was good, I am not made of enthusiasm and plastic. And I do not like being treated as if I'm an incapable idiot by a plastic munchkin.)

Having been an art student, I will say this: You are a damn good artist and designer. You have an eye for things that are very graphic. Don't worry too much about it that you don't know everything, because most of us seem to learn art things in completely random order. And we do it independently. There are always books and the rest of us to learn from. (side note: I got better instruction at a regular college close to home than I did in the fancy, expensive art school from hell)

As for how to be successful in art, and how to not procrastinate, well...
I can't help you there. Those are my issues too. I think a lot of us deal with those, as well as the self-doubt and distractions.

Oh hell, what do I know. I'm a jobless, rambling, vampire type insomniac who still lives with her parents and watches anime all the time and hasn't drawn anything in forever. :/

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It's all stupid, but you have to suck it up and play along. Everyone knows you want the job for the money, but for some reason you have to lie. Why? NFI.

And the problem with the professional art world is exactly what the problem with the rest of the world is: you have to do what you're told to. Unless you've made it big, which is when you tell other what to do. But to make it big you need years of being the small fry.

And love the sketches

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I really do lack the courage to sit down and write an application. Bleh.

I'd be okay with that. At least I can concentrate on art. Other fields... I lose concentration.

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Sure.

Yeah. I just wince away from writing applications etc., I'm such a chicken. Not made of enthusiasm and plastic

Thank you. Well, artists and such connoiceurs sure like to pick each other apart by the things one does not know if one hasn't learned in the "proper order". That side note does not surprise me, however.

Yeah.

That's how I feel. (Except I troll the internet instead of watching anime)

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