Hello anybody,
I've created this account since last year but due to my school schedule and laziness (
), I'm only typing here now since it's holiday! I am sure some people don't enjoy reading lengthy paragraphs so ok, I'm just doing this for people who would like to have a little glimpse in my life. Erm... I'm 19 this year, some of my friends call me Gin, and am currently a year 2 student in a 3 years course of Diploma in Digital Animation (DDA) in Singapore Polytechnic, in April 2013, Imma be a third year student.
My art journey... Let's just say I don't really have an official art background such as taking an art subject for examination before 2011, although our elementary and secondary school did expose us students to art like scribbling on paper, painting your hands, making cute little crafts (5 years old standard), talking about primary and secondary colours, not much focus on technical drawing skills though.
Yes back to being in polytechnic, that's when I have to take multiple modules, and one of them is Drawing!!! Well, i've heard from lecturers that art schools can have subjects in art for... how do I put it... Ok. Construction drawing (drawing with boxes) in some Art schools can last for 2 years while in my course, we only have like a few months. So I'm in more of a crash course for drawing since we center around animation.
I remembered during the first lesson of the drawing module, I was late with a friend. We arrived in the class and saw our new classmates sitting in a big circle in a drawing studio (actually it reminded me of a ballet studio with big mirror and wooden floor). The teacher was asking the students one by one, why did they choose this Digital Animation course. There were various reasons, but when it was my turn, i was stunned. I didn't know what to say because i never thought anyone would ask me such question.
I answered that I like the visual that I watched in movies and in videos so I would like to learn how to do some similar stuff. Sorry teacher, if you are reading this, I lied. XD My real reason is because I assume that this is a course without Maths and Science (Although I scored As and Bs during O level)!!! I didnt dare to say my real reason because I was afraid that my teacher would judge me. I was just 16 years old back then.
Well, it turns out that during Year 1, the drawing module carried the most GPA and that was when I went through the "official" drawing training (I didnt expect so much drawing though). Tedious experience, but it was enjoyable for me when I see the work I could produce I never thought I could in my past 16 years of short life. XD
We have to attend weekly lectures and hand in weekly homework (ok maybe I should not type so much, if not this would end up as my 10000 words biography.
). The first thing I drew was a rubrics cube. I thought it was easy as, well, it's a cube. I was wrong. I spent 6 hours drawing my first "serious" drawing. Well, Throughout the years I realised one thing. Although i could draw simple objects decently, I spent twice the average time that my peers used to drew. Ah well, at least the results I got was above average in my course (Sorry that I'm self praising, I couldn't help it as it was one of the more memorable achievement I got in my short life of being useless. XD).
Many of my friends label me as a "perfectionist". I'm sure it is due to the amount of time I spent more than my peers to draw something and the level of "cleaniness" in my pieces that earned me the label. Nonetheless, the people I meet in Poly are Awesome! Well, I tried to strive for the best in everything I do and hopefully, the audience out there (you are one of them now) , would enjoy my hardwork.
Maybe I should stop typing now. I'm like that. When I have something to talk about, I can talk forever. Since this is deviantart, Imma post up some things that I've drawn in my Singapore Polytechnic life as well as maybe the life before.