/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Cute pic.

>tfw no upbeat dog grill gf

Just saw this article today. Didn't read it yet but the headline was topical

https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-scientific-argument-for-mastering-one-thing-at-a-time-d794a983dac1

>>3456058
I got an EECS degree, and work in tech. I focused on eng first, and now I do drawing as a hobby.

My sister got an art degree, and now wants to back to school for eng - it’s much harder / impossible to go this route

>>3456058
ME student
Yeah, you just have to make the most of any free time you have left if any

yes i know this feel. currently studying physics, and it's an eternal battle between putting time into studies and trying to squeeze what i can get to draw

I dropped out of engineering, does that count?

>>3456058
yeah. I dropped out of art school, went to major in engineering, joined the military, stuck in military and hating my fucking life, will want to go back to school for engineering once this shitstorm is over.

Engineering and being an artist are not opposites, at all. They both require an insane amount of critical thinking and problem solving. Learning fundamentals of art is just as hard, in my experience.

Your issue with balancing assignments with grinding your art skills isn't specific to being an engineer(ing student). It's a time management issue. Even if you were working on an oil rig for 8 hours a day plus overtime, you'll STILL wonder how you will set aside time to draw. Be good to yourself and take it a bit at a time as it goes. Focus on school, you can get better at art later once you make/save enough money.

>Learning all the complexities of engineering and art at the same time
I seriously hope you don't do this if you have low-self esteem

>>3456058
pre-graduate school is easy, its like a retarded adult daycare. Just be honest with yourself are you struggling because you ACTUALLY spend 50 hours a week doing work and studying for classes, if so then don't bother trying to learn two things at once. Just draw for fun and "study" between semesters.

>>3456058
I switched from compsci to art because I just didn't enjoy it as much, it takes a bit of an obsessive love for it. I'm not very good but I'm also unironically suicidal and I decided I will starve to death and be homeless before I give up making it.

>>3456810
most notable ex-engineer-turned-artist I know off the top of my head is Louie Zong who graduated from Tufts, and now does board work at CN.

>>3456834
one more

>>3456834
Pixiv artist, shiyoga, is also engineer turned artist. It shows quite a bit in his skill for drawing mechanical objects

>>3456832
similar situation. Dropped out of college because i wasnt smart/dedicated enough for computer science. Ive been doing factory work since, it leaves me with a surprising amount of free time for art when im not too tired

>>3456841
Post pixiv pls

>>3456858
https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=51367

>>3456058
>I feel like its such a contrast of skills and thinking.
If you find the right teachers it's not. Try to find resources that teach a process which you can relate to. Well taught art information isn't that different from the scientific side. Your knowledge of physics should help when it comes to how light behaves and material rendering. Construction works wonders. Behind any strong stylized piece of art lies a good knowledge of fundamentals that they are trying to conceal. Average artists are the worst at telling you how the world works because they don't inherently understand what they're doing. There are some things you can't teach but by the time you get to that point with your skills you should be able to better understand the emotional side.

Vicente Segrelles was an engineering student turned artist. He used his knowledge of engineering in his fantasy designs of ships, armour and weaponry. He was also a history buff.

>>3456832
>I switched from compsci to art

Huh... are you Bizarro me? I switched from art to computer science (turns out I'm better at computers than drawing) so I could get a real job.

Kanekiru is doing her undergraduates in CS right now. Half the Asian American artists are doing/did some engineering degree

>>3456058
architect student reporting in
i will probably give up on everything else and just stick to backgrounds/architecture drawings
i want to draw my own waifus fml

>>3456969
What? Why? Kanekiru is already amazing.

>>3458063
Probably cause asian parents. That's the reason for most of the successful people I talked to in AA but still doing a money degree or I'd in process of doing one.

Naf is studying engineering I'm pretty sure
https://a-naf.tumblr.com/
Tofuvi is a graduated biologist or something
http://tofuvi.tumblr.com/