"Creating wonder is like being a magician, it makes people laugh with happiness with the tricks you can do." In the midst of my 'Aidieation' sketches for the corporate gift design, I went blank. My 'Aideas' came to a stop. I can't recall the last time this happened to me. Well, as a child, I enjoy taking a piece of paper and pencil and start drawing. At that time, I was soo into Dinosaurs. So, most of the time I tried drawing all kinds of Dinosaurs. T-Rex was my fav one to draw. Slowly but surely, I manage to draw out, what I would call, an acceptable piece. Just looking at it after good comments from my family, filled me with happiness. I guess, all of this started happening when I was in kindergarten. What happened was, during arts and craft period, we get to dip our hands in paint and create hand prints no a piece of paper. The 1st time I experienced joy through my creation was by my kindergarten teacher. She commented that I was gifted. Feeling overjoyed, I showed it to my parents. They liked it, and I liked it that they liked it. Hahax! After a few years of practice, I got the hang of basically draw from what I see. I put myself to the test by getting a detailed shaded Spider-man picture and try to make a copy of it. With me being the photocopy machine, I managed to do the job. Extremely excited of what I could do, I showed it to my parents. They were so proud of the things I could do at a young age. I know that it was a joke when my dad said to do a colored version, but again during my free time I did it. It looks as though I put color to the 'photocopy machine' when it was done. My primary school teacher saw it the next day, and told me that she was going to put it on display somewhere i school, but until now that drawing is still missing. School was always boring when I was in my primary school, as I did little drawing due to the school work I was caught up with. Once, I was drawing out something in class and got caught. It was confiscated and I had to see the teacher after class. After class, the teacher gave me a lecture, but I was crying when she said she had never seen such excellent drawing at my age and admitted that she herself could not do such things. One thing is that I never thought my drawing was that good, and I somehow pity her for not having the ability to draw. Now, that I am in a diploma course in design, I can draw all I want in class. Hahax! Yes! But now, good 'Aidieas' are hard to give birth to. Sitting here with only a few 'Aidieation" sketches, I am wondering how to produce the wonder I could when I was younger. How I end up doing design? How I end up moving towards a creative mind? That, is another story.. Aidie blogged @ 12:21 AM |