TeraSArt

I've been a student my whole life.  I don't remember ever not being a student.  My mom's a preschool teacher, I used to go through her workbooks when I was little.

I went to college right after high school because I didn't trust myself to go through with it if I took more than that summer off in-between. I worked hard, I never missed any of my deadlines.  I graduated magna cum laude.

So now it's like, I've got to be a real person now or something.  If people ask what I do, I can't say "I'm studying illustration."

But like, am I just an illustrator now?  I had to change my profile here because I'm not a "student" anymore.  Am I really a professional?  I have business cards, I have promo material...

But am I legit now?  Because I walked across a stage and got a diploma cover?  I don't know, it's weird.  

I've just got this "now what?" thing happening.  I'm going to take some time to chill and then... try to be an illustrator, I guess.  I was moving and graduating and everything all at once and I'm super burnt out right now.



I guess, while I'm talking about graduating, I know I have watchers here who are younger and want to go to art school.  I've gotten some questions about it before and since I actually made it out of there alive I guess here's the advice I'd give people going in:

-Tough out your foundation year.  The classes get so much better once you get through that and start your specialized classes for your major. 

-Don't stress out so much about making your portfolio perfect.  Your portfolio is going to constantly be updated.  Your best work now will not be your best work in a year.

-Draw what you like and have fun with it.  It's important to explore other things for sure, in order to get better at the things you're bad at and also discover that maybe you do like this thing you were afraid to try.  But also, if you like drawing certain things, do it.  Do it and be awesome at it.  Do it and keep having fun.

-Unless it's a medium that you know you love and are going to use constantly... don't spent a ton of money on art supplies.  You can have the most expensive canvas, the greatest, high-end paint, and professional quality brushes and that won't make you any better at painting.  When you're just learning, there's no reason to make such an investment until you're sure that's what you want to do.




So, I finally posted up my graduation pieces.

Prints of them are available on my Society6 

I also did portraits of the Muses because I made a book of all my turnarounds and everything for the grad show, so I'll start slowly posting up all those sometime soon.

And yeah, this was a little ramble-y.  I don't know how to be more articulate right now, lol.  Hopefully I'm around here more that I don't have class, I know I've been kind of a non-event on here for a bit.  Commissions should open up again in the next few weeks!