Just Another Fish Among the Sea

The community that I have found that supports my hobby/talents is the writing and artistic community. Upon posting submissions and excerpts of pieces I have written the feedback and comments I have received are great. Or among posting a picture I have drawn I find great feedback among showing it to people or even teachers.

When writing I try my best to make things as near to perfect as possible so the point gets across as well as have everything be understood. I speak my feelings out if it’s personal, and I also try to portray character emotions when writing a story. When reading, the reader doesn’t like having to search for the feelings meant to be portrayed, it’s much easier to make it simple and allow the reader to follow and maybe even feel the characters emotions.

The job as a writer, at least what I think is to instill emotion into a reader so they themselves are able to be apart of the story as well. I think writing is meant to cause the readers to escape into another reality that draws them in and teases them into wanting to continue coming back. As a writer, I control the words and what goes on and what happens, which is powerful in itself. I know others that share this view, such as teachers and friends.

When drawing a picture I like to try to put some kind of emotion into my pieces, because that’s what you look for in paintings and sculptures in museums. As viewers of the arts, we are told to always look for more and decipher a meaning when looking at a picture, painting, or sculpture, it’s just what happens. When drawing though, I don’t do it with the intent that someone is going to find the emotion hidden in the picture, because that’s not what I’m aiming for.

When having discussed drawings with other people who are looking on them I never hear the question of what it means, unless I think of it as a possible tattoo plan, it’s always a compliment. However when talking among art teachers and or teachers that understand that drawing is meant to have a meaning, I do hear rare questions of what made me draw it or how I felt when drawing it. Teachers are the one that always seem to be the ones to decipher deeper meanings among my drawings, maybe that’s because they’ve seen enough to understand? I don’t know.

I see myself as another fish in the sea of talented artists and writers, because in reality everyone is a writer and everyone is an artist, it’s just a matter of sharpening the talents one possesses and or perfecting them to the point of near perfect. Perfection is unattainable. That’s what I have to remind myself when writing or drawing, because nothing can be perfect, it can be that centimeter away, where it looks perfect, but never actually will be.

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