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How I Became an Artist

When I was a kid, I had a creative imagination that I just want to recreate what’s on my mind by just drawing. Of course most of us when we were young we can relate to this even if it’s not drawing specifically, we had this certain thing(s) or hobby that makes us happy like sing, dance, drawing, etc.

Since I was born to a bloodline that has a nature of an artist even though they’re not dedicated “artist”, they just drawing as a hobby really but they’re dedicated musicians. That aside, I got influenced by them, this was my main hobby basically throughout the years.

One day when I was on midschool, I had a friend that was an Artist. Since he knows that I’m into making art too he told me that I should try “this app” called iBisPaint on a mobile device and explained me how it works, and that day I got introduced to digital art. On that same year also started the covid-19 pandemic, this might not sound right because it is an awful pandemic but that’s also the best time to utilize and practice making art digitally. Almost a half year past, I was really enjoying digital art that I can actually say that I’m dedicated to this, so I started to invest a bit to it, bought a stylus pen since I was using only my fingers to draw on the screen and I also bought a premium software to draw.

I took the time to just draw and draw and posting my art on a social media platforms like pixiv and twitter. I remember the day that one of my works has suddenly blew up and I got a lot of likes and followers and I was really happy, it made me more motivated. Time passes, my social media accounts are growing and I build my community. One time, I officially started to open my art commissions and it turned out well, it was successfull. I made my own money and can finally buy the stuffs that I want and need such as buying a new ipad, accessories, cosplays, etc. 

After few years, face to face class was officially started again, it made me really busy and can’t spend time making art that often anymore. It drastically affects my routine and time management, I still want to continue doing this since it is now my passion. In a few months I’m gonna graduate on highschool, one of my dream is to take a college on japan but at the same time I don’t want to go to college, I don’t like academics in general and it is costly, I have no career that I desire but I want to chase my passion and become a full time artist. 未来がどうなるかは知らない。