Believe in yourself

OMG the title is such a cliche -_- But you should really believe in youself. If you think you can't you most probably can't. You know how some people are born talented in either sports, arts, singing, acting, etc, and other things right? Well, I was one of the unlucky ones with no talent in any of the major fields. Singing? I'm no Jayesslee or Alex Goot and friends and definitely no Christina Aguilera. Uhhhh let's just say it's better for the world if I just stay in the shower. *envy of those with singing talent* humphhh!!! In terms of music, I can't play any instrument at all. Really admire Lee Hom who, apparently can play the piano, guitar, bass/electric guitar violin, drum, erhu, vibraphone, chinese flutes, guzheng, zhongruan, etc *I-have-no-idea-what-these-are-I-got-them-from-wikipedia.  

Next! Sports. ................................ Because of my height, *ehem* I can't do well in most sports like basketball, badminton, running (although I managed to do well in my schools' cross-countries ;) and etc. Acting. I can't act, but at least I know I'm better than Kristen Stewart. Most of the time I just burst out laughing when I try to show an angry face unless of course, when I'm really pissed off. And seriously, I have a big problem doing this I mean putting on a serious face after laughing. Drawing? Lemme show you har.... 

 This is a drawing of a ginger by the 14 year old me

I know, that does NOT look like a ginger at all. My sister is totally opposite of me, because she has a talent in drawing. So the younger me had asked for her help in many of my Pendidikan Seni (Art) assignments even since my primary school years. Muahhahaha!!! I think she agreed to help me because she just couldn't stand having her sister pass up a "drawing" like that.

This is what she drew for me for my homework. 43/50 with a "Baik. Teruskan usaha anda"

 

This is my work when I was attending art classes 

And to think that I attended drawing classes since I was 3 till I was about 11 years old? And the above art piece was painted when I was about 10 or 11 years old? Damn fail case la okay? Greatest apologies to my parents who spend so much money and time to send me to art class. Yeah. And while I was painting that kind of childish paintings, my sister was creating things like these (she's only a year elder than me) :

And.... Behold! For my artworks in secondary school for Pendidikan Seni aka Art lessons.

This assignment is drawing a logo and I just looked for images in Google AND traced it from my computer screen. Hahaha

So, this year there's this drawing competition in school for the PRS (Pembimbing Rakan Sebaya) members and of course, they encouraged everyone to join to get koko marks. The theme was Snake because they thought of this contest before CNY and it is the year of the snake according to the chinese zodiac. Joining in the rat race, I participated. Typical Malaysian right there. Kiasu. So as usual, I looked for help from the book of answers, Google :D Below are the steps to drawing a snake for dummies.

Step 1 : Trace snake picture right off the computer screen

Step 2 : Paint the background and the snake

Step 3 : Paint the eye

Step 4 : Draw the scales and the mouth

Step 5 : Draw the nose and darken the eyes and the deep parts of the scales

Step 6 : Add a little white paint (when it's completely dry) for the shiny scales effect. I should have painted more white but I was too impatient to wait for the paint to dry. Washed and packed up my painting kit too soon.

This is how it looks. Scanned version.

And this is the picture I referred to when drawing and painting the snake.
THE END

I had actually wanted to wait till they announce the winner of this competition, but they said they will be postponing the judging process till next sem, which is the second half of this year. Oh wells. I.HAZ.GREAT.COMPETITION.SAW.A.FRIEND'S.ARTWORK.ITS.VERY.CHIO

Before I sign off, here is a drawing painting artwork that me and my sister did together when I was in Standard 6 and she was in Form 1. She drew the whole thing but we coloured it together using colour pencil. I think it's really nice :D

	P.S This post has been lying around for quite some time now. I'm feeling dapper (heard this from the movie House Bunny. Is this even a word? Lololol) today because something good happened :D