all these resources on /ic/ and shit have made me realise how

>>3069306
Art is a meme class in high school, it's a degree at university. But unless your uni's art studios are shit, you probably won't make it into them with your lack of skill/portfolio shit. Maybe add it as a minor if you have time for it. With the amount of resources you have online, the best course of action that doesn't eat up thousands of dollars and your degree is to just self study, and get private lessons with one of the art teachers or their students if they offer a reasonable price.

>>3069306
Well that's pretty normal for high school

Unless you go specifically to an art school / a school that emphasizes art in their curriculum you're going to get generic, shallow art courses aimed at kids who aren't considering art seriously as a career. "this is what art is, this is what artists do, this is the history of art, these are some famous artists, now consider yourself cultured"

And nothing wrong with that, the worrisome thing is that from what I hear the actual art schools aren't much better

>>3069306
>Does it get better in uni, anons?
Sort of. University gives you the space to focus solely on art, and it's maybe the only time in your life where that's the case. It's hard to find so much space ever again. If you're serious about being a world class talent, you will have to make so SO much bad art and art school gives you a place do that and people to do it with.

Also you cannot underestimate how much any creative industry is powered by nepotism. You may think you know, but you don't. If you already don't know people, your peers in college are your best bet. This is the best justification I can think of for going to a "good" school.

Of everyone I went to school with, I know like 4 people who also made it. Then again, I can only name 4 other people besides myself who worked their asses off to be a real artist. Most will just want to party and pretend to be artists. These people (and some professors) will largely mistake each other as the best artists.

So, essentially it's a giant gamble with your future.

so 1. Don't do anything that will put you in crazy debt 2. remember if you go to art school you are gambling with your future, so work like your life depends on it.

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>>3069306
Art class at my high school was actually pretty damn nice. It had both a painting and an illustration teacher, both passionate about art and willing to critique anyone who asked. There was plenty of paint and brushes; plenty of magazines, folders full of random photos, and hard drives full of images for reference. They had shelves full of assorted artbooks, both textbooks examining the history and purpose of art, and books by artists designed to instruct. There were light tables, drawing tablets hooked to PCs, a photography room with different lights and drapes(for photography class, but you could take your own reference pictures in there too). I remember we actually sat down and did exercises with graphite, and then pastels about drawing still-life objects set up in the middle of the room from different angles.

I only got serious about art after I graduated, and I realized I missed out on 4 years of daily, quality art instruction and practice because I was a faggot who only goofed off.

>>3069520
>And nothing wrong with that
you are the problem

>>3071603
realistically, no high school is gonna blow their budget on the fanciest equipment for art when 99% of the kids are there just to fuck around with their buddies.

>>3071631
You don't need fancy equipment to teach basic fundamentals. Are fundamentals fun? Not for most people, but neither is fucking Calculus or Chemistry, both of which I had to take in high school and neither of which I have used since.

>>3071658
Not sure what kind of school you went to but both my middle school/high school's taught fundies like value, shading colour theory, etc. Not so much anatomy though. You're better off just learning the stuff you want to on your own time, or pay for art lessons outside of school

depends where you went. my school had a focus on creative arts (music, visual art, dance, etc) and it the visual artists there ended up being pretty decent. most seemed burned out about art though compared to everyone else

>>3069306
High school art class is almost completely based on Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain book, and the primary reason it's so popular is because one does not need to be a proficient artist to teach it. I learned more about drawing in high school drafting class making blueprints than I ever did in art class. General art classes at the university level are equally useless, yet some are requirements to more advanced classes.

You bear responsibility to communicate politely with your instructors about what you want to do, and find out which classes are narrowly tailored for illustration, design, entertainment, computer graphics, i.e. practical applications. Course work that focus on repetition, copying, life drawing, mainly the classical approaches will net you the quickest gains in technical skills. Work on your own portfolio and share them with the instructors, and ask if you can skip general art classes.

>>3069306
if you wanted proper art classes in high school you should of got a scholarship to a specialist school like the rest of us