Descriptive Essay About Drawing

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.

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