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Make a habit of including a lot of pictures for any notes for school. Dan Roam's "The Back of the Napkin".
The ability to translate ideas into good pictures is commercially valuable.
I don't see the paint of exploring many different kinds of 2D painting. I would expect that a digital pen beats most other tools. Especially in the future as technology advances.
It might be worth looking into 3D virtual reality painting. It's a new medium and thus valuable.
There are a lot of people who say that piano is the most versatile instrument, and they're right about that on a superficial level. You can do polyphonic things with a piano that you can't do with a clarinet or a trumpet. And like a digital pen, a digital piano can simulate a lot of other instruments, especially if you hook it up to flashy synthesis software that knows all the d... (read more)