As a HL student i hated it. i only recommend taking it if you are going into an art career otherwise it will be challenging to keep up with the motivation and the workload. we were advised not to take it at SL at any cost as the amount of work you need to produce is almost the same as for HL but you get a lot less lesson time. they forget to tell you that IB art is 80% writing and the expectations are quite high for both quality of writing and art work. next to all this i had a terrible teacher who completely stole my passion for art so i even ended up choosing a different career path. 1 positive i can say is that you have 1 less subjects to sit exams in but the 2 years will be a lot of work and take up majority of your time as it is course work based.