/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Where can I study that won't break the bank or treat me like a complete baby or indoctrinate me with post modern poz? I don't want a politicised art course. I went to "the best" UK art degree and it was depressing, life drawing once a week for a term with only 6-9 attendees out of course classes of 400, the teachers were depressing as fuck and hadn't drawn anything in 10 years or drew worse than /beg/ (it was "their style"), and everyone was attempting to be a half assed Quentin Blake (i.e. without the skill) or some kind of tumblr "no rules" quirky style. I asked the teacher for some advice on learning perspective and he literally couldn't answer me, I had to explain what I meant by perspective drawing. Not to mention the lectures taught us that Sue Coe is the pinnacle of illustration and the pre-raphaelites and neoclassical artists were just male-dominated excuses for painting porn and we should have given back all the greek statues from "post colonialisation", and that an African mask is 10x more valuable and interesting than a Botticelli. Needless to say I found it incredibly depressing and it really crushed the enthusiasm and life out of my art, especially when I was given a fail grade on a huge body of work on Aubrey Beardsley (for context, I was a straight-A student with prize winning essays at my previous school). Sorry if I'm moaning, I wasn't alone in demoralisition - most of the bright young things on my course seemed grey, deflated and burnt out by the end of second year, when I threw in the towel and quit.

Is there any institution that just deals in skill, like the Art Renewal Centre but a little less stuffy? Somewhere a comic book artist might study? That teaches the raw basis of drawing, somewhere an intermediate /ic/ guy might have fun? Or do I just teach myself at home? I feel like I am a year or two away from being hireable, and I'd like to write my own graphic novel, and I like the idea of going back to a university/academy. Help!