Or that’s how I’d have done it, or rather not done it, myself. Can’t count the number of times I’ve looked at something and told myself that there’s no reason to decide today, only to repeat it the next day, and the day after that and so on. I can easily keep something like that up until I suddenly realize that it has to be sent in today, and then I panic. Usually this results in me having the letter ready but missing the post truck. Or if it’s an on-line application I fill everything in an click submit only to be told that last chance to submit was midnight, but in a timezone one or more hours earlier.
Mmn.. even students who DO think they’re good enough to pursue a career in art (and are, don’t get me wrong) can find it difficult to actually do so, mum…
Yes but the education she can get on that scholarship can be used for class beyond just art. She could use the business and law departments to build a backbone for her self in the outside world if the art is a dead end.
Most people, these days, are not so adept at the contractor/self-employed thing… and rather expect clients and customers to come to them as in corporate/store-front retail studios. Art… comes in all forms of skills, imagination, and creativity.
The stereotype of the freelance artist typically (but not always rightly) includes a lack of business skills. Conversely, those artists who get good at business skills can usually count on being called (usually by some entitled sort who wants the art for free) “sellouts.” Some artists internalize that evaluation, to their detriment.
Also, this comic gives me cause to remember with gratitude my mom who, way back in the day, assembled a scholarship application complete with letters of reference in about a day and a half, much to the benefit of the family’s finances and my procrastinating @$$.
“But I thought that I told you that I don’t think I am good enough to pursue a career in art.”
Skylar sweetie, that’s what all the great artists say (the crappy ones believe they are “The Next Big Breakthrough Artiste!”
Plus, that’s why you go to Uni, to get better
“In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.
As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the bias results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, ‘the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others’.”
Basically – “Dumb people think they’re smarter than they are, smart people misperceive how much smarter than the average they are.”
Paul just wanted to say that I really like the way you have been doing the backgrounds.. it adds a layer of reality(I guess) to the story. At least I think it makes it more immersive.
If you really are “good” in Art others will see it (being a visual medium) and you will be appreciated or open doors, get scholarships, etc. because of it.
How many paintings did van Gogh sell in his lifetime?
Since nobody else replied in the intervening four years – the answer is “one” … and, as i recall, that was a setup where his brother Theo backed the purchaser to attempt to boost Vincent’s self-image …
Good mom, looking out for her kid’s own self-consciousness.
“Mother, please! I’d rather DO IT MYSELF!”
“Mother, please! I’d rather NOT DO IT MYSELF!”
Or that’s how I’d have done it, or rather not done it, myself. Can’t count the number of times I’ve looked at something and told myself that there’s no reason to decide today, only to repeat it the next day, and the day after that and so on. I can easily keep something like that up until I suddenly realize that it has to be sent in today, and then I panic. Usually this results in me having the letter ready but missing the post truck. Or if it’s an on-line application I fill everything in an click submit only to be told that last chance to submit was midnight, but in a timezone one or more hours earlier.
I can relate to that 😖
Mmn.. even students who DO think they’re good enough to pursue a career in art (and are, don’t get me wrong) can find it difficult to actually do so, mum…
Yes but the education she can get on that scholarship can be used for class beyond just art. She could use the business and law departments to build a backbone for her self in the outside world if the art is a dead end.
Mm, good point. I rather wish I hadn’t gone to such a specialized school myself. -_-
Most people, these days, are not so adept at the contractor/self-employed thing… and rather expect clients and customers to come to them as in corporate/store-front retail studios. Art… comes in all forms of skills, imagination, and creativity.
The stereotype of the freelance artist typically (but not always rightly) includes a lack of business skills. Conversely, those artists who get good at business skills can usually count on being called (usually by some entitled sort who wants the art for free) “sellouts.” Some artists internalize that evaluation, to their detriment.
Also, this comic gives me cause to remember with gratitude my mom who, way back in the day, assembled a scholarship application complete with letters of reference in about a day and a half, much to the benefit of the family’s finances and my procrastinating @$$.
In my experience “sellout” is usually what successful artists get called by unsuccessful bitter artists.
Could it be our Skylar doesn’t really WANT to go to university?
I think she’s just Drag-Butt ’cause “That Way, Over There? Thats da FUTURE…”
“But I thought that I told you that I don’t think I am good enough to pursue a career in art.”
Skylar sweetie, that’s what all the great artists say (the crappy ones believe they are “The Next Big Breakthrough Artiste!”
Plus, that’s why you go to Uni, to get better
Dunning-Kruger applies here, as everywhere.
Have… no idea who or what that is
@Guestisus
Same with me. 😕
Dunning-Kruger {from Wikipedia}:
“In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.
As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the bias results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, ‘the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others’.”
Basically – “Dumb people think they’re smarter than they are, smart people misperceive how much smarter than the average they are.”
you NEVER know who’s looking out for you…
Or why, or what’s in it for them.
The lucky ones get the positive help.
Paul just wanted to say that I really like the way you have been doing the backgrounds.. it adds a layer of reality(I guess) to the story. At least I think it makes it more immersive.
How many paintings did van Gogh sell in his lifetime?
Since nobody else replied in the intervening four years – the answer is “one” … and, as i recall, that was a setup where his brother Theo backed the purchaser to attempt to boost Vincent’s self-image …
So much for that bit of ongoing self sabotoge
wish I could spell tonight