-
Is that a Fine Art degree? I spent mine making installations of out of found objects and at times just projections. The nearest I got to actual making stuff was making plinths! (Not quite true but very close). So when I join drawing classes I never mention I have an art degree, just that I used to do drawing at school.
brokenbetty-
I started out doing a degree called ‘drawing and applied arts’. It was pretty loose and the tutors were awful so I transferred to the illustration degree, which was great and I suddenly started actually learning things I wouldn’t have just learnt on my own anyway.
I do remember my time on DAA fondly though as I got to piss about so much more.
I had friends on the fine art course. Their output varied wildly, from amazing technically skilled painting and drawing, to upturned yoghurt pots on the floor and someone standing outside the campus canteen screaming.
Edit: I’m comfortable with seeing value in all of those examples of art, by the way! I seem to remember it was a Ski yoghurt. The most profound and symbolic of all yoghurts.
AlexD
I spent a lot of my degree using stupid stuff like twigs and glue guns to make drawings with, hoping that when I used a more traditional stylus i'd be shit hot at it. Having said that, i don't know how successful that was but it's a lot of fun stabbing at a large bit of paper with a leafy branch thats dripping with indian ink.