So first I am going to talk about my completion of the October goal and then will move on to November and what I hope to accomplish for this month.
October was a great month to really push my artistic talents; Deciding to do a sketch a day really was a challenge to work my mind to be creative and step outside the box and try new things that I've never drawn before. Even in this month those sketches showed an improvement from the beginning to the end and it is amazing how much my art can still grow just when I think I am at my peak, I still truly have more to learn than I thought. As my sketches progressed I watched as the ones I rushed looked not as good as the ones I really took my time on. I found myself swamped with midterms and work, so I gave weekends as my studying days where I didn't draw - so my sketch a day turned into only on weekdays but it made me able to find a balance in my life. The biggest problem I had was uploading them to social networks because my scanner refused to work for me so I had to use a very poor quality web-camera. In the middle of October I took on a few more human sketches like of Lady Gaga where I'd take a half hour out of two days to complete it and put more time and effort into it, I find these ones to be amazing and it really makes me proud to say these are my drawings. From October 24th we were given a project in my painting class to do a celebrity portrait that we admire, but we had to grid it off and paint each square with different shading, we were told to use 2-5 in four squares and 6-9 on other four squares, leaving the middle a pure 1 or 10. Since we had to do one square a day for the next 9 days it worked out quite well and it ended up being my last artwork for the month and it is the one I am proud of the most. During this experience I actually went through different emotions; I was nervous that I would mess up and ruin my art work, which I feel would be shown in my drawing, excitement as I came to a finish and couldn't help but gaze at my own art work for long moments of time at how well I did. It was a great ego boost to myself and I got a tremendous amount of feedback from people telling me how great all my art work was, this goal and what I am doing is a great thing even inspiring and I think no matter how many times I am told that it will never get old. To think it's already been half a year since I began this and came so far is truly life changing and I can't help but gush and continuously thank everyone for there support along the way.
So since I am turning into a sap and getting off track I'll add some pictures of my art work and without further ado explain my next goal for November.
This month I have decided it's time to face some fears I have in life, some are embarrassing but I think we all have one fear that is silly in another's eyes.
Bridges - Okay this is my embarrassing fear that I'm going to get out of the way first. When I was very little I had nightmares of driving on a bridge and it just falling apart, chaos happening and then as I hit the water I'd wake up in a panic. Final Destination helped so much by making everyone die on a bridge...Thank you movies for bringing my imagination alive in such a wrong way. Any ways it's pretty sad how nervous I get when I drive over a bridge so I think I'm going to suck it up and attempt to walk across a bridge, yeah just take it to the extreme. I'm sure everyone will love to see pictures of me crying, holding onto the railing saying I want off, so I'll try my best NOT to do that!
Birds - So this is another embarrassing one...Why am I publicly embarrassing myself like this? Again at an early age I was terrified of these seagulls, geese, etc. They would swoop down at you, try to poop on you, their annoying 'caws', just don't like them and they freak me out. One time a friend of mine and I went to a lake and there were Canadian Geese everywhere and so she thought it would be funny to put chips on the picnic bench I was sitting at, yeah not funny! dozens surrounded me and were fighting over the chips, I stood on top of the table freaking out while they hissed at me and came closer truly traumatizing! So maybe I'll try to feed some birds or hold one...Ugh the thought of this even makes me squirm in my seat.
Criticism - This is kind of interesting but I fear critiques and criticism. I have learned a lot in life that a lot of people are going to say no to you, people will always have something to say but you just have to take it with a grain of salt. I'm fine with that, the only true fear I have is about my art, since I didn't add for October seeing a artist for them to look at my art is because I wanted to add it into my fears. I am actually scared for a tattoo artist to look at my art. Mostly because I have thought up in my mind that they're going to say I'm horrible and I should just stop. I know I know, that's crazy but it's just something planted in my head. So I am going to go somewhere, tell them my goals and ambitions of where I want to be in the near future and hopefully they won't laugh in my face, they will enjoy my art and will want to help me. Scary? Maybe not. Intimidating? Heck yes.
So these are some really big fears I think I may be able to conquer! I'm really going to try my hardest to complete these ones, wish me luck.
Fighting!
Savi
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