OK. Choosing needs to get real now. Between Art, a passion of mine since as long as I can remember, or "real school" as adults call it.
While I was at soap box derby a few weeks ago, every single adult I've been growing up with constantly asked me which colleges I've applied to. After explaining many times that I'm still a junior and have yet to go on college tours, I told them I was interested in either UCSF or the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, or somewhere in southern California [Whittier, UCLA, UCSB, ect. ect.]
ONE single response stood out, and that's Kim Ferguson's. She explained how when she was a junior in high school, she was an artist [and still is, once an artist, always an artist] but her father forced her to major in something "real." So she acquired a Bachelors Degree in Microbiology. And her Grandfather had told her, "If you're an artist, art will find its way into your life, regardless of profession." Later that year, she got a job at a Science Textbook company, where she drew figures of Microplankton and Other various microscopic sea life which were too small to capture with cameras.
This sparked an idea.
Due to my love of darkroom photography and chemistry, I considered becoming a photographer. They don't really pay well.
So due to my love of drawing [which has recently improved greatly recently] and matching colors, I considered Fashion Designing. Those COULD pay well if I start off somewhere good like JC Penny. Also, I'm not half bad at sewing, as 3rd period could attest with those crazy barbies I made for the Six Sigma and New Rules project.
But finally, I also would not mind being an Illustrator for kids books. I've always loved kids, and Ive never been one much for colouring things shades of grey. [50 shades of grey? no. flipping rainbows.] Jamie and I made a pact in Freshman year, that if she ever wrote a book, I got to either illustrate or do the cover page. <3 Jamie, tell me when you finish the book, I'll still willingly illustrate it.
