My Journey
Hi! and hope you guys have a good day today! For the beginning of my blog, I will share a little bit of my journey as an art student. Ever since I took an Art and Design subject in high school which is one of my very very favorite subject for my ‘O’ level era. I started it with the study of tonal value and understanding the color theory. When I was a kid, I wasn't born to be an artist or specifically a painter, I only knew how to draw and make a stickman from a craft paper or making an airplane and a boat from random and origami paper.
Unintentionally, when I was in high school I chose to be an art stream student because I thought creatives are unique people. And at that time, I still remember I entered the art classroom for the first time and I didn’t really know what I was doing and I wasn't familiar with the tools and the art supplies that I was holding in my hand when the class started to begin. My first class started at about 10 am in the morning, with only a box of graded pencils and an A4 sketchbook that I bought from W.W Mart in Beribi. I was really surprised that we only have about 7 students in my art class at that time, and I felt that is a good opportunity because this class is going to be so quiet and I can even get more focus doing all my artworks with larger space for each of us. First thing we did was, we learned about tonal value and how it really important to create a quality artwork. ‘O’ level was easy for me because we only thought to know how to do shading and observing things and stuff that we gonna draw especially we often did still life and observational drawing such as the observational drawing of a crushed soda can or a pair of shoes and we need to be creative to take second hand photos and observational photos to get an A grade.
Then, I pursued my art journey in sixth form in Maktab Duli, Gadong. This time, I knew that I had to step up my game and I need to get more serious because it was an A level quality of work where I need to show my satisfaction towards my work and I have to do more artworks and research in just short amount of time. Other than that, I was also taking another two A level subjects that I need to focus on. In my A level, we talking about perfection and quality specifically in painting and drawing. We thought to use acrylics and brushes. We also painting and drawing still life and portraiture. We have four components need to be done in one and a half year of time. In one component we have at least 5 to 6 artworks includes of drawings and paintings study. At this time, I felt really tired of painting because it is consuming most of my time at A level other than studying another subject and coping with all of them. Then, I pursued my study in UBD which is slightly different than my ‘A’ level this time. In UBD, I feel relieves and I know I need to catch up more on my creative assignment’s due date but less artwork to do and more essay assignments to do. So, this first blog post is an overview of all of my posts that I am going to put in throughout this blog and all my experiences as an art student from O level and A level and now as a Design and Creative Industry in UBD.