Drawing

         We all know that drawing’s kinda hard, right? I know it’s easier for some and comes naturally for others, but it still takes some amount of skill. Well, most of it does. Let me rephrase: QUALITY drawing takes skill. And, of course, practice. Thanks to a cold when I was 8 and Captain Underpants, drawing became a hobby for me. It looked pretty bad and was terribly unoriginal. But like I said, this stuff takes skill and practice. I may not have had skill back then, but luckily, skill comes from practice. And after 5 or 6 years, I was thoroughly skilled in the art of drawing stick people. But towards the end of 7^th grade, I realized that I needed to stop drawing stick people and draw better after I was told that I needed to stop drawing stick people and draw better. So that’s just what I did, and over the next 2 years I became way better than I was when I was 8. I had finally gained some skill. But if watching movies has taught me anything, it’s that with great power comes great responsibility. Reality taught me that drawing well is harder than it looks. More skill meant better drawings, better drawings meant quality, quality meant taking longer to draw a picture, taking longer to draw a picture meant me staying up until 1 in the morning drawing. It’s exhausting. Not to mention how much I erase. I constantly mess up, which is annoying when you’re trying to make a good drawing. Sometimes the lines don’t erase well and it ruins the drawing. But that doesn’t happen to often, so the drawing usually ends up looking awesome (for my standards). In the end, all the erasing is worth it, because I can always look at the finished product and think, “That went better than expected”. I guess the lesson here is to lower your expectations and everything you do will be the best ever. Well that’s not a very good lesson at all, now is it............