Noah Bradley has a reputation at VCU Arts (the public art institute he has a degree from, like me!) of being pretty myopic when it comes to the benefits of art

Noah Bradley has a reputation at VCU Arts (the public art institute he has a degree from, like me!) of being pretty myopic when it comes to the benefits of art school. Learning how to render things well is, in my experience, likely less than 10% of what art school actually is. To his credit, he does a great job at listing resources that folks can use to learn illustration well, but don't confuse that with meaning it'll teach you how to make good art. There can be an ocean between those two things.