Don't worry bout depressing me...
It's good that your so honest about what you think about the Graphic Design as a career path.
btw are you in uni? and what sort of course are you doing if you are?
I know all the tools and all that...
My fortes are mostly in drawing and graphic art, I just need to transfer my talent from using pencils and pens to using photoshop.
Thanx for the advice....
Reading that made me a little depressed cos I was really hoping to get into something like that.
I'm a creative person, but I can't really do something like fine art cos I want to make a living. So I thought the next best thing was Graphic Design.
My photoshop...
I really want to do Graphic Design (or something similar) in uni, and I was wondering which University is most suited for this sort of course.
Also what are the prerequisites (for instance is it necessary to have more than 2units of maths) and what is assumed knowledge is needed?
And can...
Actually you're probably right, but alot of people in my school (i think theres about 15 of us) are doing short stories, theres two people doing videos, 3 critical responses, 1 speech, 2 poetry and the rest are short stories.
I am completely stuck for ideas in art.
I'm thinking about doing a mix media work, but I don't know what concept to do.
I got a few ideas but they aren't really going anywhere.
Ideas so far:
*War and its effect on the environment. b/w imagery from WWI and WWII, mostly dead trees and...
Well as far as I know most people are doing Short Stories. I checked out my schools (Sydney Technical) major works from last year and only about three people didn't something that wasn't a short story. This year pretty much the same deal except theres just a few more people doing different things...