Being a huge fan of Japanese comics and animation, I've always wondered how great if I could draw the characters that I love. Back then in high school, I always keep few printed pictures of the animation series I watched with me. Having those pictures with me keeps me thinking "I wanna draw these characters!" With these thoughts and feelings, the urge to draw them, in the end, I start doing it myself.
Line by line, I look at the figures, I sketch, erase, and sketch it again, finally I drew a character. To my surprise, I've done a pretty good job on my first try. And so, from time to time at school hours, I would draw my favourite characters onto my notebook and for some reason I noticed, when I was drawing, I pay a full attention to what I was drawing rather than my surroundings. During class, the teacher was teaching while me, myself sitting at the back of the class, feeling very bored, couldn't pay attention to the front, I ended up drawing. As I was focusing on what I was doing, I didn't even realise the one and a half hour of lesson already ended, I kept on drawing like nobody's business until my friend comes and give a pat on my back. I'm surprised. The entire chemistry period ended just like that and here I am, just drawing half of the figure. For a moment there, I felt like I was in another world during the lesson. I couldn't recall what my teacher said, what topic she taught or what was going on during that entire hour. You can say I've regained my "consciousness" when my friend give the pat on my back. Yes, that pat eventually pull me back to Earth.
For a few weeks I was quite indulge in drawing animation characters. I even think someday, I might draw myself few strips of comics and share it with my friends. However, things do not go the way it is. For no reason, I stopped drawing. I didn't know why I stopped. Probably because back then, I have no inspirations. I wasn't inspired by anyone to do it. Maybe because of that, I wasn't motivated enough to continue. despite feeling bored to the max in class, I couldn't bring myself to draw anymore. I felt very lazy. So, my drawing ends there.
Few years later, I finally found my inspiration, I was inspired, and I'm motivated to draw comic characters again! I'm a university student now and seeing the artworks of my course mates who share the same interest as me, I was shocked! THEY DREW SO WELL! The character details, from the hair to the clothes, they're very well drawn. Oh my, this is like the artwork of a real comic artist! Besides, the characters from the animation, they're even able to draw their very own characters. Their original and fan art is just so amazing. I've seen them drawing a character from scratch and they just finish it within few minutes. Well that was quick. The art was great, I couldn't stop staring at it. Thinking about the old artworks I did. All I manage to do was copy the works of others while my mates here can just draw the character without referring. These inspired me to start drawing all over again. I wanted to be able to draw great characters without referring much just like them and I even started buying myself a sketchbook already.
Out of curiosity I asked them how long have they been drawing. I'm thinking probably they all must have love drawing so much since little. Most of them answered they started it during their high school days.Oh........just like me. I started during my high school days too. Only that I stopped after a few weeks of doing it and my course mates here kept on drawing until they mastered it. I'm thinking, if I haven't give up drawing back then, I might be just as good as them now. Well, I guess it's better late than never right?After all, all I need to do now is keep on sketching, drawing and produce some amazing artworks. Let's start it again now~
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