>>3813316Should read
>>3813336Because I think those professors are right.
In every era, there are a few styles that are commercial: If you can do them well, you can get paid and maybe make a name for yourself.
In Loomis' era, looking at examples from "Successful Drawing", that was realism and high quality draftsmanship to draw ads for the advertising industry and magazine covers.
In today's market, almost nobody's looking for that. People want:
>3D modeling, rigging, and animating (popular in the game industry and film)>Emotion-focused expressive works (you probably call this "lazy minimalist art")>Calarts/flash-style 2D animation (popular for TV)>Erotic/Anime style commission work (popular on Patreon and with indie projects)So if you want to be a working artist, you can choose to ignore the actual jobs in the market, but you're gonna end up being that weird bum friend who subsists on gigs which pay in free pizza and alternates living with family members and couchsurfing with friends.
