For the upcoming application season, we have also been sorting out the student cases of top universities recently. In the process of sorting out, we found a very interesting phenomenon. Every year, the number of successful cases of students who apply for studying in top universities with zero foundation or transfer to professional arts in natural light is growing. However, the number of applicants in the art study abroad market is increasing, and the difficulty of assessment of foreign art colleges is also increasing. According to the general environment, it is not very friendly to students who apply for art study abroad from zero basis to major. What are the bonus points for the application for art study abroad from zero basis to major? There are also some hidden advantages?

Teachers in the natural light also found in their teaching that many students who applied for art study abroad from zero to major often showed their worries and self-confidence, and even in the follow-up learning process, they would show many small mistakes due to uncertainty, such as not daring to apply to TOP colleges, always wanting to choose conservative themes Or too much entanglement in professional skills learning, etc. To help you dispel your concerns, I have summarized some unique "bonus items" for students who apply for studying abroad in arts from zero foundation to major, hoping to help students find their own advantages and places that really need to work hard!

What are the bonus points for the application of zero foundation to professional art study abroad?

Unrestricted imagination

Whether students without art foundation or students who choose to study other art majors, they must be full of "imagination" in this new field. Students will hope to explore their own different directions by learning new knowledge, or hope to have something they really want to express through this major, which is the best motivation for our creation.

So many students who apply for studying abroad from zero foundation to major in art actually have many ideas when they start their study. Whether these ideas are correct or feasible, they can serve as the basis for our initial divergent thinking.

Zero foundation student of natural light animation, whose works are inspired by their own lives

Secondly, most of the students who choose to study abroad in the arts with "foundation" have taken part in the unified training for the art examination in those years. Although they have laid a solid foundation in the ability of hand painting, the audit standards of this examination mode are more focused on "accurate perspective", "harmonious color", "realistic enough" and so on.

However, the requirement of overseas art schools for art students is to focus on creativity, and the ability of hand painting will only be comprehensively assessed in combination with the overall project. However, it is difficult for art examinees to jump out of the restrictions to spread creativity because they have been accustomed to the inherent painting methods and practice according to the inherent standards.

For observational painting, personal expression is the key to the knowledge base of hand painting

On the contrary, students who have no foundation do not have so many restrictions. This is like a sentence we have all heard: when learning a new major and new skills, a blank sheet of paper is often better trained than experienced people. In fact, the same is true for the creation of works collection. Once the zero based students find the correct teaching method, they will quickly establish the thinking system of overseas art education.

Therefore, when we arrange teaching programs for students, we will also deliberately arrange courses in the form of Design Thinking and speculative design for students who have a professional foundation in art design. Most of these courses are in the form of divergent creative thinking.

The core curriculum of six major series of works integrating natural light with "humanity+thinking+technology+practice"

While the students with zero foundation first contact basic courses such as painting foundation and humanistic foundation, we will guide them with overseas art teaching mode at the beginning of this period to help them learn from the logic of overseas art creation in a shallow and deep way when they first contact art creation.

Maybe in the early stage of the course, teachers will still need to take more rigorous teaching and accurate guidance as the direction of control, but generally after this transition period, students will automatically get on the right track, and from the follow-up effect, this "correct habit" is formed more quickly than the students with a foundation!

Focus and devotion from love

Artistic creation originates from enthusiasm. When is the enthusiasm most full? At the beginning. The teacher of Natural Light also found in his work that many students who had no basic knowledge and changed majors had a comprehensive understanding of the requirements for selecting colleges and universities and portfolios before coming for consultation, especially the students who applied for graduate school, they were more outstanding and usually had clear goals.

This is precisely because they know the difficulties they may face when they generate the idea of changing their major, so they will consider the feasibility of this path through various surveys. When they come to the organization for consultation, they usually have basically determined the idea and hope to face the next learning process with full enthusiasm.

The zero foundation student of natural light plane major has made a detailed application planning with his mother before coming to natural light

In addition, I think a proper sense of crisis is good for students with relatively weak foundation. First of all, they will be willing to accept more professional help. For example, they will consult senior students and elder students with similar experience in studying abroad, visit various overseas study forums, and even in the process of learning, they will constantly ask professional teachers for their opinions because they do not understand, Although artistic creation is a display of personal ability, the help of others is like "demining" for you. It is also very necessary to find the right direction.

In addition, they always show extra concentration and devotion in the learning process. Last year, we had two students with very different foundations, but they both got Edinburgh College of Art Interior design offer. The first Yao Yao student was a student who changed from a zero foundation to a major, and also applied to a top comprehensive college with high rigid indicators. It's hard to imagine; Another student, Xiao Lu, is a graduate of this major and has long planned to study abroad, and has prepared a collection of works in advance.

However, the learning process was not as different as we expected. At that time, Yao Yao made a great decision to change his major. He came to the natural light one and a half years in advance to start his systematic study. Although the preparation time was relatively sufficient, it was still impossible for the interior design major to add to the foundation of Xiaolu's systematic study for four years.

So during this period, Yao Yao's classmates showed high intensity of investment, completed each task with high quality according to the learning plan, and finally got unexpected surprises;

However, Xiao Lu, who had thought that it would be very successful, entered a very intense learning stage because of the short preparation time and the review of the previous collection of works, which did not meet the requirements of Edinburgh from topic selection to quality. Fortunately, in the end, both students achieved their own success with a dedicated attitude and hard work day and night.

Upgrade according to the original specialty

It is no exaggeration to say that this is probably the "unique skill" that all students who change their majors should learn. With the needs of social development, not only the art field, but also the boundaries between almost every discipline are widening. With the integration of subject knowledge and the development of professional technology, no matter what major we have learned before, we can find a place to use in new fields.

The best way to make good use of the overlap of the two majors is to make up for our shortcomings and show our uniqueness. We often emphasize that Art study abroad The collection of works examines the comprehensive ability of students. Different professional backgrounds should not be taken as a disadvantage that everyone wants to avoid, but the direction that we open up our creative forms.

Natural light student Ryan, from business management to fashion management

How to find a suitable entry point is the key to our "upgrade". The entry point between some majors is obvious. For example, business is universal for fashion management majors, programming is universal for interaction or new media majors, or the hand painting foundation and divergent thinking ability between different art disciplines.

On the contrary, it will be difficult to find some overlapping points of specialties, so it is necessary to remind everyone that "combination" cannot be mechanically copied, we must start from the project itself, and any combination of methods should focus on the application specialty.

Natural light students change from economics to interior design

Secondly, we are talking about "upgrading" on the basis of this major, so we can only think about what expansion can be made by combining different majors after fully mastering the design thinking, professional knowledge and basic skills of this major. And only by doing a good job of sufficient skill reserves can we ensure that we have the design ability to achieve the vision.

In fact, it is not difficult for us to find out from these zero foundation to professional art study abroad application cases that advantages do not mean it is not difficult, nor do we really have shortcuts to take. On the contrary, we also have some inevitable restrictions. For example, most of the majors that have successfully applied for zero foundation are comprehensive majors, such as fashion, graphic, photography, etc; The students who applied for interdisciplinary programs did not choose blindly. They all made a decision after careful research or finding a coincidence with their original majors. Secondly, in order to show the greatest advantage, these students need to spend more time on the collection of works. How to find the most suitable topic, how to develop strengths and avoid weaknesses, and how to seek the most professional help to make efficient planning are all things that we need to spend time and energy to prepare.

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