Hi,
I just wanted to reach out to all the struggling, starving, and overworked student artists; I feel your pain! I am a student attending the Emily Carr University in Vancouver BC Canada.
I have been a practicing artist for most of my young life, "specializing" in nudes and human figures. I never started out in art, though I had always practiced it throughout high school.
I actually first went to school for fashion at Ryerson University in Toronto. However, after half a year of grueling nights slumped over an industrial sewing machine, multiple stab wounds in my fingers from the seam ripper, and tired of memorizing 80 types of cloth; I promptly dropped out and registered for Emily Carr the next year.
Though the workload has hardly decreased, I have truly re-found my first love and perhaps my secret love affair, art. I would not change one min of my experiences within fashion, Toronto, or Ryerson, but I am very glad to be in a better place.
I am hoping to reach out to all those with a deep love of art and perhaps post some of my own work. I look at this blog more as a continuing work-in-progress, a virtual sketchbook even.
Hope to hear from you internet,
Sydney M.