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So, I just started my senior year of high school, and college is looming over me in the imminent future.
I've decided art is the path I want to take, but I've been really worried about my level of talent in relation with every other student's.
Any art school grads, here? >: From AI, preferably? I'm aiming for there, probably in their graphic arts/animation department.
I don't know what art colleges look for in art, so yeah, I'm worried. ;_;"

Anyways, here are some samples of my art.


(I'm aware the arm is too skinny on this one, but I wanted to post somethign I just recently drew)




(yay failed perspective 8D)



I'd love some really good critiques by the way. The last time I got one was years ago.

Thank you all. :'D

To be honest, the thing that I find the most off-putting about what you posted is that you haven't cropped them down to the relevant areas? The first and last pictures, the pencil lineart, why include so much blank space around them?

Well, I do know that in college, generally, it's realism>anime art styles

Just be careful how they approach your art style. It's not bad, and if you don't like it, the best thing about being an artist is that you can always improve

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I have never submitted a portfolio to go to school for art. I can say though, that when I started, everyone was terrible. So don't worry. The point is to teach you.

You do want to make sure you draw a lot of things you see. They don't want to see your cartoons. At all. They want to see that you can interpret life around you. Do life drawings of people, animals, plants, objects. Experiment with light and colour. Try drawing a car. A toy. Everything.

Focus on areas of light and dark to create the forms.

(Edit: The first couple of years is all about basics and technical learning. No one gives a ******** about your style. You're there to learn. If you want to do whatever you want, you can do it for free and not take up a space that another student can use.)

Hello,

Hmm, I don't want to upset you or anything but, depending on which college you wish to attend, I wouldn't submit these.

What I found when I went for my interview was that the works that were liked were far more conceptual rather than image based.

What you need to focus on is getting yourself in the front door. Once your in you will be doing work that you never even considered, you may even change majors.

I originally applied to do painting and ended up doing sculpture and glass. I also started out studying Fine Arts and ended up graduating Maori Visual Arts.

Practice a lot more on things like flowers and plants, and then move up to shiny surfaces.

Blah blah blah... sometimes I even annoy myself.

Right now I'm studying a Masters in Maori Visual arts and I'm doing sculpture.

Yeah....do lots of different mediums....this will help lots too. If you can work in several different areas it will help out. Artists these days can't really specify in just one thing, you gotta do it all baby...

You may even find that drawing isn't your thing, you might be a print maker or a sculptor...or both. biggrin