Undergraduate / "I dont want to do anything in my life but draw" SCAD statement of purpose. [5]

"The statement should be no more than 500 words in length and should give an overview of the applicant's academic and personal experience, describing preparation for and commitment to further study at SCAD, as well as educational and professional goals and aspirations."

Throughout my life, there hasn't been a moment that I didn't enjoy drawing. From being a five year old who wanted to draw all the sprites from her Pokemon games, to a teenager copying feverishly from the pages of her piles of manga with the rest of the school's Anime Club, my life has been predestined with a love of art, but only as a hobby, I always thought.

However, my life was turned around at sixteen, forcibly becoming a high school dropout and having to move halfway across the country due to my dad suddenly being laid off from his government job. As I spent night after night in off-road motels in the middle of bone-cold winter, I thought about my future, what I would do about college and beyond. I was convinced I couldn't do art for a living; 'a lack of talent, a lack of any knowledge of the subject in a professional light, it's only good as a hobby', I repeated to myself like a mantra as I scrolled through slow loading art blogs on backcountry Internet.

I was just absently sifting through my feed when I came to a picture by one of my favorite artists at the time. There was nothing particularly amazing about it, and maybe it was partly due to the sudden 360 that my life had taken, but as I looked at this picture, failing to choke back tears at 3 in the morning, the idea that I definitely have nothing more in life I want to do but draw planted firmly in my head, and from there I saw drawing as more than just a hobby, filling the empty hours brought on by the awkward age of being too young for college and a job but too poor to enroll back into the local high school, with not just copying idly from comics and games, but actively doing self-study as much as I could.

Being poor has been a roadblock for me academically, either causing me to move, making it hard to focus, or preventing me from going to school in general, but for the first time in my life I'm in a position mentally, emotionally, and financially where I'm able to focus on school to the best of my abilities. Initially it was difficult finding a school, but during my search, I came across an old comic artist I adored when I was younger, and I found out that they had gone to SCAD themselves, and even offered online courses, and that was all it took to convince me to apply.

My admission to SCAD will allow me guidance from a professional always needed in my self-study sessions, and the knowledge necessary for me to break into the art field and become a comic artist to create the things I love in my life.