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I want to see a shift in the convo from "is art school worth it?" to "how can we, as professional artists, work to decommodify industry resources and knowledge in order to improve the quality and breadth of our field?"
Like what are we doing for the folks coming after us? Are you taking on assistants? Explaining your work processes? Mentoring? Critiquing? Sending the same PDFs that were sent to you not too long ago explaining how to pitch, plan, manufacture, etc?
I've been working on a super long....write-up? I guess? Of my experiences creating my first graphic novel. I drafted the idea back in senior year (22), and it's gonna come out next year when I'm 26. There's a lot of TIME there that artists might not regularly open up about.
I've made it a point to get into all of the MISTAKES I've made during this process, too. Cuz you make them and then wish someone had warned you. That shit is embarrassing but it's gonna help someone later to avoid it.
ANYWAY I'm gonna post it somewhere online once this book is ALL THE WAY done and out in the world, for anyone who wants to read thousands of words about each mental breakdown and triumph this process has brought me lmao
For accountability's sake, I'll say now: This book was ORIGINALLY supposed to be completely done and turned in on December 1st, 2019. It is not done. Today is May 10th, 2020. Things happen.
