dead said:
i didn't see this at the time, but..
my parents did pretty much the same. my father managed to be violent without external impetus, but the rest is pretty much the same.
my stuff would be searched through, any drawings/anything unrelated to schoolwork would be torn/thrown out.
i'm studying art now, at 28. and... while it's definitely harder to think of a huge change once you're out of your 20's - it is possible. don't give up on your dreams yet.
(oh, and ((((((((((((((hugs)))))))))))))))))). i do hope to see your art one day.)
I didn't give up but I wasn't able to finish University for Music which was my desire since I was a child. I still play, I still write and record and have published music for broadcast radio and television. I'm lucky enough to have a home studio that rivals many commercial studios I've worked in and a Computer Science degree which put's me in the chair as a mixing and mastering engineer pretty easily in most studios. Still, I would have rather been a college band director then a software engineer. I picked CS because I knew in a few scant years all audio and video would be in the digital realm and I could return to music in some capacity through it.
My Father stepped on my Les Paul neck and broke it in two because he didn't want me playing any in music. I washed dishes for 2 years to buy that guitar when I was a teen. I was really glad to get away from him for years until he quit drinking.
I'm glad you returned to Art school before your 20's were over. You still have great neural net learning capacity in your brain at your age. Follow your passion, it wont ever lie. Do you have a deviant account so I can check out your art Dead? I would like to see it.