{"id":10011,"date":"2021-08-17T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T22:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/?p=10011"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:38:47","slug":"5-essential-tips-for-art-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/5-essential-tips-for-art-students\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Essential Tips for Art Students"},"content":{"rendered":"Art school is a major commitment, both in terms of time and money. To make sure you're getting the most out of your art classes, here are five essential tips\u00a0 Collin Chan, veteran artist and Corel Painter Master Elite, wishes he had known\u00a0 before\u00a0 graduating from\u00a0 Ontario's premier art school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheridancollege.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheridan College<\/a>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe title=\"5 Tips for Art Students\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k2D9rPS6f2w?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"post__body\">\n<div class=\"entry editor-content\">\n<h1>About Collin Chan<\/h1>\n<b>Collin Chan<\/b>\u00a0is a Canadian artist, Corel Painter Master Elite and award winning filmmaker who\u2019s artwork can be seen on most social media platforms. He graduated with a B.A in illustration from Sheridan College. His realistic approach to digital and traditional artwork (including acrylic, oil, inks, watercolour and other mixed mediums) explores themes of humanity, truth and life. He has done art for companies including Wacom, Anker, Corel Painter, Zhiyun Tech, Moza, Olloclip, Insta360, Pentel Pens, Daler Rowney and much more. Outside of painting he is closely associated with independent film and you can see his most recent short films on Youtube.\n<div>\n\n<hr \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<h1>External Links<\/h1>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinchan.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/collinchan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/collinchan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>\n\n<hr \/>\n\n<blockquote>I believe that the true responsibility of an artist is to show society as it really is. There is no value to art without fundamentals and meaning. That is why everything I do is real. From the themes I explore to the mediums I use, every collection that I paint blends realism and the imagination to create a visual narrative that represents a specific aspect of the world we live in.\n\n~ Collin Chan<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corel Painter Master Elite, Collin Chan, share 5 tips that he wishes he had known before entering art school at Sheridan College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2325,2317],"tags":[10,152,33,55,1245,780,833,1246,1247,266,1248,91,1249,1195,89],"class_list":["post-10011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-to-school","category-digital-drawing-painting","tag-advice","tag-art","tag-art-school","tag-artist","tag-better-together","tag-collin-chan","tag-corel-painter","tag-corel-painter-master","tag-dali","tag-digital-art","tag-essential-tips","tag-illustration","tag-sheridan-college","tag-student","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}