October 8, 2008
1:12 AM
4 subjects to go
Art has been the biggest hurdle in my life ever. These few weeks have been pretty hellish. Worse than any IAs or parfolios that I've stayed up all the way for. But now its completed. All that I had planned to do, even though it was nearly an impossible feat, I completed it. Having only done 2 pieces in 1.5 years, who could have imagined I could complete 15 more pieces in the remaining 4 months. Thats a 3375% increase in output. Was that ownage, or was that ownage? xD
Although art wasn't exactly as I imagined when I first chose to take it in year 5, I did manage to take back some good stuff. The one first and foremost.. most important, to me, would be awareness of pencil drawing skills. Now I can go work as a hentai manga artist, whahahaaa!! Nah, just joking. But seriously. After all these years(thats quite a number of years too) of aspiring to draw well yet failing to miserably most of the time, knowing that at least I have the potential gives me some hope. Whether I choose to work more on it, maybe do it as a hobby.. thats another story. =)
The other stuff would be.. just.. thinking on stuff. Since the school's art program requires you to work your art around a central theme, you normally end up contemplating quite a bit on it. Mine being 'generation gap', most of the time I was thinking on like.. what brought us together and what splits us apart. Not just inter-generationally, but also intra, even in communities such as our year 6 student body. Basically, it was just good pondering over the various issues around us.
Finally, the conveying of ideas into reality. Sure, it might seem all good up in your head, but when you try to take it to real life, things don't always turn out like they were meant to be. Looking back at my first ever piece, the presentation was outright crap. Even the stuff after that was crap as well. It was only after some time that the ideas started to take form nicely, to the extent that I could say I am proud of my later pieces. In fact, I could compare this to some architectural workshop I went for a year before. I would say that theres a high chance for application of this later on in life. Sort of like.. turning your dreams into reality?
(If none of that made sense the first time, it probably won't. For you reader, that is. Reflections are always good to be written down to make sure it leaves the proper impression on yourself.)