Marlana Williams English Throughout my life, I have loved to draw. Due to my love of drawing, I decided to take a career in something that has to do with art. A few things have happened in my life that has caused me to take this path. Three people that I have interacted in some way, are the reason for my choices. My cousin was the reason I started drawing in the first place. I was only five or six years old at the time, but when I entered his room, he was sitting at his desk drawing on a sheet of paper. I watched from over his shoulder as he slowly drew the lines of the picture. I watched in amazement as the lines came together in the form of a dragon. I was shocked and curious as to how he was able to draw something so cool. When I asked,
he answered by saying “You just have to practice.” So I took those word to heart and began to draw every day. Even as I got older, I was still drawing at any moment I could to the point it annoyed everyone around me. It wasn't until I was 13 when my best friend had showed me two web shows made by a company in Austin, Texas. Each were amazing animations that I loved immediately. It wasn't until later I learned the name of the person who was responsible for introducing animation into one of the shows, Red vs Blue, and creating the other, RWBY. Monty Oum was a self-taught animator who was amazing at what he did. Seeing the animations that he had created inspired me to one day create animations of my own, but animator was only one of the few things on my list of possible careers. Concept artist was one of them, especially after seeing another person from the same company, Patrick Rodriguez’s concept art for RWBY. It wasn't until the death of Monty Oum on February 1, 2015, that I was set on being an animator just like him. Ever since I was little I knew I wanted to do something that involved art, but it wasn't until I was 14 that I realized the exact career I wanted. If these events never happened I wouldn't know what I would want to do with my life right now. Even if it was a really sad event that caused it, I’m thankful for everyone who helped developed my passion whether they know it or not.
“I’ve got life, I’ve got love, I’ve got faith and that’s enough. We feel sorrow, we feel pain, but there’s sunshine after rain. So I’m alright.”
The first time I began to draw, I drew stick figures and malformed animals and people. As I continued to grow and experience new things, I also improved in my art. From fifth grade to my senior year in high school, I realized a major difference in the way I drew, and also in what it meant to me. For me, drawing represented the growth I went through in life. Through the tough times, happy memories, and crushing defeats, these all accumulated and created my personality and
I have dabbled in photography for the sake of personal aesthetic for a few years. I own my own camera, and I believe I know enough about shutter speeds, ISO, and aperture to take a decent photo. I haven't taken many photos over the past couple months, but it would not be hard to pick it back up and begin shooting
I’m a visual learner. To start off, I learn best by reading and seeing pictures, to do this i need to sit up in front of the classroom, during tests, I don´t get distracted easy. Next, I will use flashcards to learn new words and i will try to visualize things as I hear people read to me. Also, most of the times I like to read myself and picture and imagine things in the book. As a result, I know my style and I can become a better and smarter
The artist guides the brush in a thin, black streak along the canvas, outlining the woman’s wrinkled forehead. As the color begins to fade, she swipes her paintbrush through a container of white paint. She looks shockingly at what she has done once the paintbrush has been lifted back to the line she had painted moments before. Looking down at her paints, she sees a splotch of gray that sits in the center of the white, only to be swallowed by the simple, pristine color. Her paints had been ruined. Or had they?
I have realized the value of how much happiness can come from a piece of paper and a pencil. My childhood nanny has had a great influence on my love of fine arts. The moment that I pick up a paintbrush, my sense of time vanishes. I have won best in show for the 3-D art category with a native american vase I made my freshman year. Other school art awards have also been won for paintings and drawings throughout middle school.
In times, we often see things, but we don't really capture what is beyond it. In some cases, there are people who are artistic and are prone to see what other's cannot visualize. Every individual has a talent which can be expressed and processed differently. Something you see can mean entirely divergent things to someone else;for example, some may see thing's that may seem simple, but in the eyes of an artist, it can be perceived with a whole new definition, dimension, and a potentially new discovery. As a photographer, my view of the world, can be skewed towards looking at everyday objects as potential art, but it wasn't always like that.
Once I heard the news that they were home from Alaska I race up the stairs and bulleted to the front door like a was or race horse or something. It was my grandparents and my brothers in a black car rolling up our driveway. Once they got out of the car they got bombarded with questions like “How was the trip,” “What did your guys all do,” and of course my little sister asking “did you guys get me anything.” I was kinda glad she asked that because I didn’t want to be the one that did that. Of course they answered “you’ll have to wait and see.” Once they got all of their stuff in the house I went to talk with my brothers, but I instantly got called up to the living room. Once I got up there my grandma said that my brother
My relationship with writing has been an adventure having both its highs and lows—it has been complex. Yet through it all, I have been excited to learn, expand my vocabulary, learn new styles, and contribute to the ever-growing collection of literary work so that someone one day would benefit from my writing.
Camera focuses on the grass, progresses towards the stairs, and zooms in on the welcome sign with the words “The Museum of Art.” Once in the museum, different angle shots of the diamond in its glass case are taken.
The genres I consider myself most literate in is art. I would consider myself literate in art because it is the genre that I am completely and utterly in love with in life. My obsession with art started in the ninth grade after I completed a drawing for a project. After getting praised for my drawing I started to recognize that I was actually talented. This lead me to enroll myself in art classes in my high school. In taking these classes I started to fall more in love with every aspect of 2D art. My love of art traveled with me into every aspect of my life. In high school, my life became even more stressed and completed than ever before. To deal with these newfound stressors I turned to art which became my one escape from daily life. When
I’ve been told that I have many talents. Well, I am aware of that, but I know for sure the one skill that is above all: Drawing. It is the skill I have most experience in and have been known for throughout years in school. In elementary, teachers would always point out to my mom on how artistically skilled I am. I remember the moment when I knew that my passion would, for sure, be drawing. I wanted to draw a Pokémon from an old card and I remember I attempted at it and I showed it to my dad. Because he can draw too, he tried fixing the drawing for me and I understood his corrections and took note. I knew then that I wanted to learn how to draw passionately. In 4th grade, I would always draw characters on a notebook with lined paper. I never
My work extends beyond the pen, pencil and pad. Teaching creates for me an intellectual nirvana- a place where a beaming five-year old inspires me as much as any writer ever would. In teaching free writing classes for homeless youth, I saw timid students grow into confident communicator. These kids, who had never taken formal writing lessons, stunned themselves with their own abilities to create sparkling diamonds and seas. But my biggest smile surfaced when my students requested to auction their composition and feed more hungry children like themselves. Already using truth within linguistics for its highest purpose: service to the world.
I love reading. It’s something I do every day and it makes me happy. Reading is a way for me to get away from whatever is going on in my life that I want to escape from. My love for reading hasn’t always been here. I was never one of those kids who started reading straight from the womb and it was a challenge for me. When I was young I never thought that I would enjoy reading but luckily that idea changed.
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.