Do art schools and colleges in general hate manga and anime art?
it isn’t looked on kindly, in my experience, by admissions reps
Yes. Best to draw from life which isn’ possible with manga.
Does this apply to boarding school’s to? Do they also look down on semirealism?
Forget it.
Absolutely.
Manga is not only relatively easy to draw, it’s derivative. Art schools want to see creativity, they want to see unusual choices, and they want to see a point of view.
99% of Manga does not contain these qualities. Yours certainly does not at your age and experience level.
@MotherOfDragons What about semi realism?Do they hate that to? If I have a web comic in the manga style will it still be looked down on to?
Work on your academics first and foremost.
I hope so. What I mean is that manga is more like cartoons. I would hope that art schools offer more of a classical education from which students can branch off as they see fit.
Art teachers, critics, etc. want to see a body of classical art technique from a student. Still life, figure drawing, drawing from nature, from life, basic core stuff. Google about art portfolios for college. Look at AP Art grading samples below. Educate yourself on what is being looked for. There is plenty of info available on the internet to learn from. All art training focuses on developing a fundamental skill set of classical training. Most of the most stylistic famous artists will have solid classical training. (or in the case of artists like Basquiat, their complete originality comes into play)
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/220194.html
Make efforts to get some art training and/or create art outside the manga/anime realm.
@doschicos Do they look down on western styled cartoon style the same as anime?My friend who has a western styled cartoon style told me they dont look down on it as much as anime or at all even.
I really don’t know. My guess is it depends on how original it is. Even for cartoonists, for art school and such they want to see a portfolio shown some other stuff I would think.
Best not to take advice from other 7th graders on what colleges do and do not like. Your art teacher (preferably once you get to HS) would be a better resource.
In another post you said you are in 7th grade. If that is true I want you to know that it is good to take school seriously and know that college will be on your horizon, BUT it is way too early to start focusing in on what is needed for college.
For now you should:
–Work hard, learning, and doing as well as you can in the most challenging curriculum you can manage.
–Continue your involvement in activities such as art you care about and work towards improving your talents and making meaningful contributions to those activities. When you are in HS there should be teachers who can advise you about what should go in a portfolio.
–Enjoying spending time with your family and friends.
–When the time comes (years from now) study for standardized tests.
I agree with @happy1 . You are 12 or so. It’s great that you are interested in college, but you should calm down and stop trying to figure out how to get into Ivy League schools. You have made twenty threads as a 7th grader.
Here is what I see happening if you don’t relax and stop obsessing. By the time you are a freshman in high school, you are going to freak out if you don’t have A’s in every class. You are going to stress out that you aren’t doing the right things. You are going to fixate on a handful of schools that have under 10% acceptance rates and you are potentially going to start suffering a lot of negative physical and mental side effects because you are going to be fixated on a perhaps unattainable dream. You are possibly going to crash and burn by the end of tenth grade if you aren’t careful.
I hope none of those things happen, but what I see time and again on CC is that kids like you who are totally obsessed with the notion of “dream schools” are the kids who are disappointed on April 1. Don’t become one of those kids. There are so many great colleges. You don’t need to go to HYPSM to become a happy and successful adult.
You will NEVER get your childhood back. You are only young for a very short period of time. Spend your next couple of summers doing dumb stuff that makes you happy. I mean it. Watch TV, swim, read books, go to friend’s houses, play with your dog. Stare at the wall for hours if that’s what you want to do. I promise you right now that plotting and planning to get yourself into a few colleges is not going to make you happy. It’s a great way to be unhappy, in fact.
There is literally no magical formula that is going to get you into a top school. Great grades and tests scores will only get you to the gate. The secret to getting through the gate is something no one here can tell you. The very top colleges have their own criteria as to what they want in an applicant. They want interesting, likeable people. They don’t want automatons who are trying desperately to be someone they think the college will like. Read the MIT admissions essay called “applying sideways.” Then come back to this site in three years. For now, just chill. Have fun being a kid this summer.
Bump
Why have you bumped this??? You are not going to get a different answer. Wow.
Wow indeed.
They did ask a follow-up question about boarding schools that nobody seems to have really addressed.
OK, the art portfolio for BS, however strong it is, will not offset an otherwise mediocre application. Additionally, since the original post is really a variation of a theme, I have answered the question about boarding school admissions, albeit obliquely, in the past:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/20551449/#Comment_20551449