06/17/2025
I remember drawing stick figures as a little girl. Then around middle school, I began drawing more. Over the years I’d draw, even got into painting with acrylics on canvas. As part of Visual Arts-Graphic Design curriculum in college, I enrolled Drawing II class in the Spring of 2022 while the world dealt with the pandemic. This drawing rendered in graphite pencil and charcoal pencil on drawing paper, I rendered of a live n**e model in class challenged me. We were instructed not to just draw the model, but everything and everyone in the background. I had to stick with it and be patient in the process. It took me about 10 days to complete. This assignment was part of my portfolio. I look at it now, in awe that sometimes what’s the most difficult leads to triumph and lessons learned. What I learned about myself is that there’s more within me creatively than I realize. Challenges lead to growth.
