I want to be an artist when I grow up....help? ?

[jplatt39]

I would say draw, sell -- and that definitely means frame your work and schlep it around to restaurants coffee houses and so forth. Take a year or two off from school or go to community college, then apply to a big expensive school like RISD or CalArts and work your butt off (which you will have to) even though you will hate the curriculum (everyone does and nobody for the same reason -- a few love their concentrations but hate the other stuff they had to take for foundations). When you get out, you will find you have lots of contacts for selling to high profile clients so you can pay back your huge debt, and you will have AWESOME skills so you can also do and sell -- fast -- anything you want at your parents restaurant.