I AM AN ARTIST Art is something I find that is self-driven. I believe that to be an artist to create, you need motivation before you do work, whether it’s a deadline for a commission or a client or something personal for you. What they all have in common is the emotion you put towards a piece of art. I could be completely wrong or viewing this from my personal experience, but no one is going to spend a lifetime working on art if they have no self-driven motivation. God bless the poor soul who would. It doesn’t matter how I got to be an artist or designer, but it matters as to why I am still an artist. What had been that tug of string that has kept me in college to study art and design? Is it my fear of failing or dropping out? No. Not at all. It’s because as much hell as I go through, I enjoy doing work. I love the steps from receiving a project from having a blank paper and turning into a poster or a book or a postcard. I love the overall process of how I got there and that process.
Photo taken by Talia Wilcox
I didn’t like painting in high school, and I groan when I learned that I had to take it in college. I was going to suck at it!! It was going to be a disaster! I’m just a designer. I’m not a Pablo Picasso or Emanuel Leutze. During that semester, I spent many nights and many weekends trying to figure out how to blend and properly shadow, and I suddenly fell in love with teaching myself how to paint. Yes, there were some frustrating nights and projects I was nearly ashamed to turn in, but I ended up taking Painting II a class that wasn’t required. How did I go from complaining about taking painting one and desperately wanting to take Painting II? Life is funny.
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