If someone is to ask why I like to do things involving arts (music, writing, drawing, etc) a few years back, I would probably say "I dunno. I just like them" or "Just 'cause".
But if people ask me the same question again now, I would most definitely reply confidently with "For the love of creativity and freedom and learning new things".
My first ever interest involving art is designing clothes. I never had any interest in anything before that. It first started when I was still in elementary school. My mom was spring cleaning or something like that and she found some old exercise books (the brown cover small booklets that we always use until we graduated high school). They were my sister's back when she's in elementary school (that would be more than 10 years ago at that time. Now, I think they are already as old as a 21-year-old). It was all sketches and drawings of girls wearing clothes designed by her. I went through them one by one and all of a sudden, I had the intense urge to draw, to design clothes. I tried on some used A4 papers and they were really bad. I was so naive as to think that I could draw skillfully by the first time without even have to learn. And so, I got disappointed and I stopped. But I had started to pay attention to fashion and stuff from that time on.
Then, a friend of mine introduce me to the world of manga and anime when I was in high school (Form 3 I think). She recommended a shounen detective manga to me. Yes, it's Detective Conan. When I started to read it, I liked it instantly (but the plot is too repetitive and darn long, so I stopped at about chapter 100). That was when I started to draw again. It was still bad but my skills had improved. Only a few close friends of mine knew I draw back then. I wasn't that interested in manga and stuff, though. But awhile later, Astro added a new channel --- Animax. Now, that's when I got really addicted to manga and anime. After watching hours after hours of anime during the school 2 months break, my drawing skills improved sooo much that I could not believe it myself (whoever said watching TV is a bad thing XD). Then, it got better and better (after reading many mangas) until I was known for being able to draw in manga-style. My friends even complimented me about the guys I draw. They said they were good looking (you can't imagine how happy that made me felt). And the guy, who was the most talented artist in the grade, actually specifically wanted me to draw a poster (it's for a fun-fair thingy) for our class (we're in the same class) with him!!!! I was sort of dumbfounded when he asked me.
That was when people from other grades and classes knew about me. They actually like my drawings (especially the guys the I drew). They acknowleged my drawing skills and I'm being praised!! And some stupid fat-ass was jealous of our class poster (it stood out the most amongst other classes) that he/she/they tried to ruined every one of our class's posters. They tore down the parts where my drawings were. I know I'm being a narcissist but I can't help but feel proud of myself --- because someone actually felt inferior about my drawing skills and they envied me!!! (well, and the guy,too XD) That, of course, made me angry and annoyed because they were detstroying my art >< Aside from being able to discover a side of me that I never knew existed, I met friends (really good ones) through art. I will make sure that I will be able to take on a university course involving arts even though my Dad hates it. I won't give up!!
Okay, so enough about drawing. Now, it's about writing. It started the same way as drawing --- influenced by someone's work. This time it was my friend from tuition class. She was talking to another friend of mine about a novel she had been writing on. So, I grabbed it and read it. It was not bad for an amateur. Then, another friend who came late saw me reading the novel and told me she was writing one herself, too. I got excited about it and I started to write. That's how the seven novels from the previous post came about.
The reasons I like to draw and write are: I can let my imagination run wild. You never have to be bound by the so-called rules/laws and norms from reality. You can be illogical as far and as much as you like. Something that is suppose to happen in a way in reality doesn't mean it will happen in the imaginative world, too. Nobody is to tell you what is right and what's not. The other reason is that I get to research on things I don't know about. Now, I have more knowledge about mythology (Roman, Greek, Slavic, etc), nursery rhymes (really weird ones), history, geography and climatology (especially US), medicine equipments and so forth. I can't even list them all out. Yesterday, I looked up on types of accents and now I knew so much more about the different accents in US and UK.
Now, I'm planning on starting to learn violin (and maybe even piano) next month. I just can't keep my hands (or myself) away from artistic things.
