<p>I agree with the recommendation to find your daughter a crash course in art, even at this late stage. She can take a class or several classes at an art league or atelier during her senior year.</p>
<p>My daughter always took art league classes while she was growing up. By the time she was in high school, she was taking 3 or 4 classes every weekend. That was because after around age 14, she was allowed into the drawing and sculpture classes with nude models, which made a huge difference in the quality of the class. Every Sunday for two years, she would travel by bus to New York City to study sculpture at their Art League with a great teacher there.</p>
<p>One summer, when she was around 15, she took the Corcoran’s 2-week summer pre-college course. They taught a smattering of everything there–drawing, painting, sculpture, photography. She learned that she did not like most of the art they taught there, and did not like their teaching methods. It was well worth the money to send her there to learn that lesson.</p>
<p>My daughter ended up going to an atelier in Italy to study instead of college, and today is a professional full-time painter (fine art). </p>
<p>As others have pointed out, your daughter needs to learn drawing for any type for professional art field. She can take classes at a nearby art league, or at an atelier if you have one relatively close by. Here is a list of ateliers for reference, some of them in California:</p>
<p>[ARC</a> Approved Ateliers, Academies, and Workshops](<a href=“http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/ateliers.php]ARC”>Search ateliers and master classes - Art Renewal Center)</p>
<p>As another suggestion, your daughter could take drawing courses at an atelier part-time, even during college. Particularly if she’ll be studying in San Francisco or Los Angeles where there are several ateliers.</p>