Throughout my life I haven’t really been good at many things, maybe because of all the restriction, or the environment I lived in back in New York. I
was good at math, I was good at running, but I never really valued those, but throughout my whole life I have been great at drawing. I have been able
to draw in many styles, but my personal favorite was black and grey, but I was never really all that exciting and drawing never really seemed to help
with making friends (or at least i thought so for a while). I have been able to help people with art, especially since New York was a place of art, and
sometimes students asked me to draw them, but I wasn’t getting much credit for it and sometimes I grew a bit lonely, but then I realized that it was
the art that truly mattered. When I was about to move to Connecticut I was drawing in my old school’s recess yard and I was drawing an anime
character from my favorite show attack on titan in my folder but I started getting a bit frustrated with how the picture was coming out. Out of the
blue two people a boy and a girl asked if I needed any help, and normally I would reject help but I realized everyone needs help at some point. I lent
them my pencil and folder and they completed the anime in no time and I was amazed on how it came out. After that I would meet up with them
after school and draw with them and come up with new characters every day. I guess I was wrong about art not making friends but I then improved
on my talent and began giving away pictures. Within the last few months I had in New York I would always spend it with the two kids after school
and drawing and then giving away and I became much more popular. I have found something that I value and something that I would never give up
, and it isn’t just art, it is also my two friends, I will always remember them as the first people to accept me for who i am, and the people who I could
understand with my own drawing ability.
Thanks for sharing this, Kieran. I can think of at least two other people who’d be happy to collaborate and/or discuss anime drawing in your grade; one likes to provide commentary for chess matches, and the other was new to this school like you this year.