Skipping Art School - Art School!

All content is STC (Subject To Change)

So I realized the past week that I have got to focus! What am I going to focus on? The Plan.

The Plan - Become a Freelance Graphic Artist/Designer.

Goal Of This Plan - "To solve the three pressing problems of this project. No money and less than awesome drawing."

What I'm going to do. In steps.

1. Learn how to draw better.

So what most wannabe Graphic Artists would do is go to a university, sign up to get a degree in graphic design, spend between 80,000 to 100,000 dollars for that degree, and then work real hard to get that degree for next four or six years. That's a lot of money and time to spend to get a piece of paper saying you're a Graphic Artist. Then after all that you're 80,000 or 100,000 dollars in the hole in school loans and for some reason not getting.

Here is something you all should know about me... I HATE SCHOOL! I hate it with a vengeful passion, there were very rare days of school that I enjoyed. It was a dark thirteen years of my life. So to the point: I'm not going to waste my money and time, to get a piece of paper.

As I've said before this post I need to learn how to draw better, so I'm going to go to JSAS Art School! 

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J.S.A.S. Art School

Joel's Skipping Art School Art School  :P

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Degree of Professional Art Guy

Six months of intense drawing and studying in the following areas of art. To be a Graphic Artist you first need to be a artist. A prerequisite to becoming a Graphic Artist is having the ability to draw.

• Perspective
• Human Anatomy
• Foreshortening Figures
• Background Drawing
• Visualizing Art
• Layout
• Color
• Develop a portfolio

Books: Creative Illustration, Drawing The Head and Hands, Figure Drawing for all it's Worth, and Successful Drawing. These books are by Andrew Loomis.

Also, Dynamic Figure Drawing and Dynamic Anatomy by Burne Hogarth.

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Degree of Head First Books

All studying done in the order below

• Head First - HTML with CSS & XHTML
• Head First - JavaScript
• Head First - Web Design
• Head First - PHP & MySQL
• Head First - Object Oriented Analysis and Design
• Head First - Software Development
• Head First - C#
• Head First - Rails
• Head First - Servlets & JSP, Second Edition
• Head First - Design Patterns
• Head First - SQL
• Head First - PMP
• Head Rush - Ajax

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School Equipment I Don't Have.

(As I Learn)

1. Scanner
2. New Computer
3. Latest Photoshop
4. Latest Flash
5. Corel Painter 11 (X?)
6. Wacom Tablet
7. Color Printer

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There you go, so basicly what's going to happen here in this blog is me doing this self learning 'school'.

THE END!

The Joker: "And... here we... go!"

:P