Hey everybody read this! My wonderful daughter wrote this story for school..... Unlike most kids (at least the kids that I know), I dont have a role model. Sure I want to be an artist, game designer, and have my own company for games, but I dont know any artist or game designer well enough to call them a role model. Instead, I want to be my own person. Im not going to go as far as calling myself my own role model (in my opinion I think that makes me sound full of myself), but I dont want to end up being a person that copies others work. I realize that thats not what role models are for, but Im the type of person that gets an artist’s/writers block so I go look for some inspiration online and end up creating something like the other person onlines work. For example; Im having a hard time trying to write this essay right now, so at home I went online and looked up role models in the search box. Sure, there are a few people I know about that inspire me to keep going, and I wouldve written about one of them, but its hard for me to write about someone I barely know. There are people out there that are amazing artists, but I have no idea how they actually act at home, nor how they act towards other artists. You never know. One of them could be the best artist in the whole universe but they brag and shove it in other artists’ faces. Some could be out just to destroy others dreams so they can make it to the top. Ive seen things like that before (maybe not in this field of work, but Ive seen it before), and if people want to act like that, I dont know if I want them as my role model. No, Im sure I wouldnt want them as my role model. The point is, you never know if you can trust the people you want to look up to. Now, Im not claiming every artist/person is like this, but I want to be sure I can put all my trust in a role model. For instance, Mark Crilley. Hes a really good artist; actually, I watch his videos on tutorials for drawing on YouTube. Thats what helped me enhance my drawing capabilities. Im not saying hes a bad person. In fact, Im sure hes a pretty nice guy. I just dont know much about this person enough to write about to write him. All I know is that I love watching the videos he puts up and practice drawing them (like I was stating earlier, I always look for inspiration online). In case you think I sound ridiculous, Ill explain more on why I didnt choose a role model. Bad habits are hard to get rid of, especially if youve been doing it for a long time. One of mine was copying off of pictures. Not exactly tracing them, but looking at the picture and trying to draw the same image on a different paper. Of course I gave credit to the actual person that drew it. Even if I dont know the name of him/her, I usually say something like I got the picture online. It made me upset just by saying it. There was like a voice deep in my mind was calling me unoriginal, not unique, and screaming that Im copycat. This is part of, no; this is a decent sized chunk of why I dont have a role model. I want to be original and unique, I want to use my own drawing style and make breathtaking pieces of art, whether it is a game, drawing, or painting. I know that looking for a little inspiration isnt really bad, just as long as you dont copy the exact thing and call it off as your own. Also, I know that you dont have to be fully original. I just want to be me.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:05:08 +0000
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