I've been wanting to be an illustrator for most of my life. I'm at the point where I'd like to try to make that a reality. But I don't know if my art is good enough or I'm talented enough. How do I find out? Can I cold contact artists to get their feedback? Would that be creepy?
I've been drawing since I could hold a crayon, and I distinctly remember spending most of my childhood thinking I'd be an illustrator when I grew up. Then life got shitastic and obviously those particular plans didn't pan out.
I didn't go to art school. I've taken a few adult education classes here and there, some more helpful than others. I've never worked up the nerve to say to the instructor, hey, I'd like to be an illustrator, is my stuff good enough? Besides, it seems as though many of the the criteria would be different for fine art painting versus children's illustrator.
A local art college offers a certificate program for illustration. I signed up for it last year, then decided it was foolish to spend $5000 on this pursuit when I wasn't even sure if I was good enough, and withdrew in time to get a refund. I should mention that I'm allergic to student loans and giving schools my money, since it was a long hard slog to pay off my grad school loans, but if something were truly worth it I would spend the money.
I do realize that there is no true dividing line between "good enough" and "not good enough" because art is subjective and one can always improve. I suupose I'm wondering if my native abilities have any kind of spark that suggest it would be worth it to invest the blood sweat tears sacrifice money etc into trying to make this into a real career. Is there someone I could pay a sum, like $100 to 200 or more to look at my art and say this is good, this needs improved, but if you work on x y z then it's within the realm of possibility for you to work in this field?
I'm not posting a link to my art here because I want to keep my mefi life and real life distinctly separate. |
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