Artistic License

Ever wonder what the life of an artist is like?

As a creative person myself, I enjoy making little crafts and giving them as gifts or having them as decoration around the house
. As seen on many social media sites, such as Tumblr or Youtube, the internet is an excellent tool to develop a fan base and rise in popularity. From the click of a button one can now scroll through thousands of images or videos of artists and their masterpieces. This may include, but is not limited to, anything from carefully choreographed mob dance routines to eccentric furniture carved by hand from tree bark and stone. Thanks to the internet and easy forms of mass communications due to modern technology, seeing the process by which these artists make a living often leads to sudden inspiration.

As I watch in awe, I can view a live-stream broadcast of an artist sketching out their famous $5 commissions for a textured digital drawing of the latest "hit" animated show or a behind the scenes blog of a popular band and what happens while filming a music video. Useful tidbits of information tend to pop out of nowhere, be it concerning an individual's personal life or the best way to pull off the classic Moon Walk.

I usually learn more just by watching these underrated artists bring life to a blank canvas for an hour on the weekends than from an entire week in class at school from 7:30 am to 2:30 pm. They may not be as known as Van Gogh or Frost and it may just be me from an artistic standpoint, but I find the art and the internet to be wonderful learning tools for immensely important information relevant to our daily lives. Unfortunately, many adults think current and future generations are spending too much time on the internet. This is understandable as many teenagers spend hours a day browsing online sites, but at least for me, I find it to be a true learning experience. More so than school sometimes as the American school system is a rather vicious cycle of education and high tuitions that lead to increasingly difficult and demanding job requirements. But hey, who needs to know how to manage an online payment transaction account or how to develop a game app or how to pay taxes or balance a check when we all have the pythagorean theorem and cell division process engraved into our brains over the years!