What was your main drive that created your passion art? Was it a person, an event or did you just find out you were good and carried through with it?
Strangely, when I was younger, I hated art and I was absolutely terrible but after sticking to it for a few years, it ended up being on of the things I like most.At first I had no talent and I didn't know what was good and bad. However, when I was about 7. I started going to a holiday club during a school holiday for 5-13 year olds and stayed there until I was 12. One of the members of staff there was a really big fan of manga and I used to really look up to her as she was like a best friend. She loved reptiles so we used to talk about my pet snake, she liked manga and anime and she always had really interesting stories. She was very spiritual so I guess she is the reason I am so open minded too.
Anyway, she got us to draw sometimes and she helped us improve and soon I found out that I started to enjoy it and I was picking it up quite quickly. I would always ask her how to improve and I was always trying to perfect my work. When she left the holiday club, I was gutted. It was like I lost a part of me as I got really close to her, but I continued to improve my work, hoping that if she ever came back, I could show her how I have improved. Sadly she didn't come back and I left the holiday club when I was 13, but I still try to improve as it is now my aspiration to continue with art as a job as a graphic designer/artist.
I started out being rubbish and now I am being told I am talented in art and I think I am ok, so I guess it just took one person to inspire me to dig deep and find the artistic talent I had inside myself, and I am grateful that it happened as I would probably have not come to pokestadium, which then lead me here and it wouldn't have helped me find my dream job.
So, is there anyone that inspired you to find your inner artist or was it something else?
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