Where others see drawing as a waste of time that destroys a perfect piece of paper, I only saw the excitement. A vast number of artists find that their activities are a way to communicate, as well as displaying their inner emotions. For as long as I can remember, I have had a strong interest in drawing. Even as a child, I tend to seek out drawing as a blank canvas for my feelings. Despite the amount of YouTube channels that I had watched, my best friend captivated me.
It all began in middle school when my best friend, Roselan, started to draw. During that time, I would invest my lunch break watching her draw her favorite anime characters in our history class. As I observed her: her mind seemed to be in her own personal world. Once she held her pencil close to a blank sheet of paper, she doesn’t pay attention to her surroundings. Aside from her surroundings, her undivided attention only belongs to what’s going to be in her sketch book. From time to time when I take a glance at her sketches, I see the smallest details that made her drawing come to life: the different shadings and color that highlight the character’s appearance; the different angles and frames to capture and emphasize a unique feature of each character. From there, with her emotions projected on her artwork, my interest in drawing got inspired.
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To me, drawing portraits and other different types of drawing grew with time and patience. In fact, when Roselan taught me how to draw, she also introduced me to Anime. As a result, I became a fan-crazed Otaku (a person who is obsessed with anime, video games, or computer and rarely leaves home) who treasured Anime as a religion. Years later, the excessive amount of creativity that exercise the concept of values and immersed vivid artworks I had come to know and love started to fade. That’s when I started to experiment with different styles, then soon it was used for communicating my
As a young boy Chris Van Allsburg enjoyed drawing. He loved to sit down and put his imaginative ideas to paper for his own viewing pleasure. In school and with his family he was not encouraged to spend so much time drawing and painting. Since he was a boy, he was encouraged to participate in sports more often. Chris Van Allsburg abandoned his passion for drawing and went along with the pressures of his family and friends. He would not discover his passion for a few more years.
The arts play a tremendous role in sculpting a human being in a positive way, by sharpening one’s thinking process in order to allow one to pay closer attention to detail. How? Well, to begin, participating in activities such as drawing, painting, singing, story-telling, etc. strengthens the synapses between brain cells. For those who do not know, a synapse is a “structure that permits a neuron to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another cell”. By developing skills of critical thinking and paying special attention to detail through studying arts and music, it awakens the right side of the brain along with the left side, which is the logical side, and by having a strong brain working in harmony rather than only strengthening one side, it will allow for greater success in any desired field.
Emotional stimulation is a key part of the arts. Before and during adolescence students go through many emotional changes and experiences. It is important that they find a healthy and natural way to release their concerns and feelings. Art is a considerable alternative to bottling up their emotions or other things a young person may do to release their emotions. For example, when a student creates a piece of art, his or her thoughts, dreams, goals and experiences are put into it “often reflecting an event of significance in their recent past or some element on the canvas that reminds them of a favored person or object or color” (Gardener 16). Likewise, when a student looks at a piece of art, they try to determine the emotion that the artist is trying to convey. This, in affect increases his or her emotional awareness. By putting themselves in another persons position, students develop a greater understanding of the emotions of their peers. The arts also helps students to think critically and view things in a different perspective:
Art is an exacting field. It demands precision, tolerance and imagination. I learned patience and dedication when I bent over drawings and portraits for years, while trying to match them perfectly with the picture in my mind's eye. Several hours of practice a day for many years on vocal and instrumental music made me realize the benefits of hard work and perseverance. I stepped out of my comfort zone with theater and tapped my creative potential. Learning different speech patterns transformed me into an articulate presenter. Reading and writing continually helps to increase my acumen and express my thoughts in a cogent manner.
Since ancient times, the word artist has acquired different connotations. It has been quite an inquiry to define it, and even with the most meticulous meanings, the word still has kept its mysterious singularity to define the whole purpose of a man. Being an artist is more than just a philosophy, and the concept belongs to a vast range of abilities of self expression. It has been said, that one of the most common abilities is that of being able to reinterpret experiences, societal pressures, adversities during childhood, successes and failures, and translate them into a creative form attractive to others (Nguyen, 2011). This specific ability is directly associated with the uniqueness the artist will start to develop during his career, and also constitute an important part in their formation as a person as they will be able to open and expose themselves into the fierce criticism or affable acceptance of the rest of the world.
...t creations of expression is something that anyone can enjoy. Although the motivations for some pieces are so difficult to understand that one might think that there was none is not a discouraging statement. Each person is likely to find particular paintings, prints, and sculptures which speak to them personally and find others lacking. Almost like a piece of music some resonate better with different people and it should not be a deterrent when something is seen that seems beyond understanding. Standing and considering art and it's meaning can give hours of enjoyment although sometimes it seems like grasping at straws for meaning. However even the art that seems to exist without meaning is important because the harder to find, what is found is usually more interesting because of it. So I recommend to all to make their way to the local art scene. Stand. Stare. Think.
After learning more about graphic development, I understood how art is connected with the human life
When you love to do something, you want to do it every day, all the time, till you get sick of it. Even then that excitement and devotion to do it is still there. That is how I feel about art. I have a great passion for it. It is a form where I can express myself in a way words can’t.
Humans have so much abilities to express their creative side in so may ways. The issues we currently face is a repeat of past issues and new issues. Racism, gender bashing, and self hate, these issues are everyday issues. Many people have found painting, blogging, crafting, etc. to be an outlet for how they feel or what they what to
If people can give an accurate concept of art, then it is better to say that art gave the artist a definite goal and motivation. Any work of art is needed imagination to be created and completed. I always love to draw, but when I really put the painting as a major, I feel very confused. Because I think I am too lack of imagination, and there is no way to create the ideal work for me. Until I see Andre Masson’s art work “Man in a Tower” in the Guggenheim museum, I know that creative ideas could be inspired by many basic and normal elements of our life. Gradually I have a deeper understanding of art and have the confidence to complete the painting.
When I was a little girl, I loved to draw. I spent my days going on adventures with my dolls and then doodling the scenarios down on paper. Drawing was amusing and it brought me true pleasure and up to age eleven, I was determined to become an artist when I grew up. One day, while I was sprawled out on the floor doodling, I mentioned my ambition to my mother. There was a moment of silence, and I stoppe...
‘One of the earliest self-expressive and communicative activities children engage in is drawing. The act of drawing is spontaneous and universally enjoyed by children. As a young child proudly presents his/her squiggly lines, irregular shapes, and colour patches, how are we to make sense of them?’ (Author unknown, 2014, Pg.8)
I think about art often. My father is an artist as well as my sister. I grew up surrounded by art either in paintings, dance, or art performances I attended at my sister’s high school, the arts academy. My desire to create art must have a root in my childhood, where I was constantly involved in beautiful creations of the human
The arts have influenced my life in amazing ways. Throughout my life, art has been the place I run to and my escape from the world. As I’ve grown older, art has become so much more than that. Every piece of art I create is a journey into my soul. It’s a priceless way to deal with my emotions and my struggles. I create art not only because I enjoy it and because I want to, but because I have to. Somewhere deep inside there is a driving force, urging me to put my heart down on paper. I become emotionally attached to each of my pieces because they are like dashes on the wall marking my growth. Each one is the solution to a problem I have dealt with and overcome.
All throughout time people have used their imaginative minds to express some form of art, whether it be painting, drawing, sculpture, and dance, theatre, music or technology, this has happened all around the world. Furthermore, I think that the youth of the world have the biggest imagination because everything to them is new and they can’t help but imagine “what if” or “how”. Therefor that’s the power of imagination, and preferably for me I use it for art. Art to me is almost like an escape from everything negative in my life. Many say that art is beauty, and we say beauty ...