# 160 Frankly speaking...

''I do not believe in prodigies!'' , well, I wished I don't too. But somehow I felt some people are taking it easier than me. Or maybe I just didn't know the story behind them. 

Art foundation had begun since July. I wasn't really aware of the importance that was deeply embedded in these subjects (Figure drawing 1 and Drawing 1). I thought it was just merely practicing and testing our standards. But oh how wrong I was. These are the basic, foundation, prime and core subjects that will determine how successful or how good we can be in the future. If I don't work hard now, I wouldn't be able to reach what I was yearning for. 

I've always wanted to draw and paint out my thoughts. It was tough for me to interpret them and translate my thoughts and imaginations on paper into beautiful art pieces, they just came out simple doodles. It depresses me a lot to see how hard it was for me to even capture my own thoughts. 

Definitely I was determine that I love art and art was in my blood since I was a little child. Ok, I was being dramatic. I had tons of doubts after I graduated from high school. I signed up for Graphic design as soon as I got out, but, the college I was at didn't make me feel like I was in the right path. It just felt so wrong. I have my reasons for saying that but I won't list them all here. Then I started to wonder, was art really my 'thing'? Was I meant to chose the path of creativity? It bugged me a lot. So I quit after my first semester. It was a tough choice but I just felt like I had to. At this period of time, I've thought of taking accounting, business, and so on. That felt even wrong! Accounting? What was I even thinking. I hated math. I hated numbers. Then, The One Academy came into consideration. I've heard so much about it but, I wasn't sure whether I am able to entrust all my hopes into this art school. I didn't want to make the wrong choice again! But, thank God, I've decided to join The One Academy. 

Lie Qi's Mannequin drawing! So greek right! Awesome!!!!

At this point, I cannot say how will it impact me in my life in the future but till now, I have learned so much and benefit so so so very much from it. I did things that my hands had never thought I was able to do before. I drew portraits! I have never ever done that before until I was here! I know my drawing sucked but at least they looked human! Observation is really important. And they have taught us to observe every single detail, curving point, value, shape and proportion. I have classmates that drew so well that they looked nearly like photos. They are awesome! I really do envy a lot. No matter how hard I've tried, I still couldn't get what they have. Though everyone's improving, I hope so am I. My lecturers have been great. I really wanna thank CC, LipWei and Mr. Leong for the guidance cause I've found out that I've been comfortable drawing better and faster after they have inputted their knowledge for us to learn. Not to forget Kathy for the lunches! Haha! Everyone has different perspectives on how they view and observe an object, a person, an animal and so on. Analyzing them differs from one to another too. And I believe although everyone has different styles of drawing but all of them are great art pieces because they have put so much effort and emotions into it. We definitely had lotsa fun during class. ;) 

Mr. Tat Sun also said that there is no time for dating now. And I totally agree to that. Well I know I was in a relationship before and I'll missed those sweet lovely moments when someone loves you, and you loved him back, and both were happy, yada yada all that romantic stuff but now all I wanted to do was to get better in my drawing. I know I am not doing so well and I really wanna excel, I just hope I don't back out the last minute and laze around. I am really inspired by Mr. Tat Sun's talk today and that is why I am blogging about this and I rarely type so many words for a blog post. But anyway, I was saying, I wanna improve and it's tough if my time had been occupied by other stuffs. I like boys but, it's just not the right time to be involved now. Yea, I sound like some bitch. 

Passion and attitude play such important roles to reach our goals.  If you don't have the passion, you can't be able to get through struggles and problems that we will face. What Mr. Tat Sun said was really inspiring and true.

I will TRY to be more hardworking kay! :D I promise!

Hmm. I hope I can do that. I'm sucha lazy girl. I've gotta change my attitude.

So yeah. these two months have been really great. :) Can't wait for the next class! :D Haha...

peace out yo!

~cheryl ng