My Passion For Drawing

Thanks to my parents for offering me opportunities to explore my interests in drawing since my childhood. However, my passion for it was stimulated by a sketch course which intrigued me but brushed past me. As a new transfer student from a regular high school, I was left to strengthen theoretical knowledge of drawing. I was frustrated and found nowhere but McDonald’s to spend my boring time. Sitting in a corner next to the window, I looked at the people passing by leisurely or hastily, never minded whether they were shopping or rushing to an appointment. Unconsciously, I took out my notebook and began to change them into different lines and colors of my drawing. When I finished drawing, my depression dismissed, and a sense of happiness and peacefulness welled up, and I think that was the real reason for me to draw.

Following my passion for drawing, I came to my undergraduate major, Art Design, at the Chengdu University of Technology, where I began to dream of being an excellent Graphic Designer. During my college years, apart from perceiving and recognizing the appearance of things, I tried to understand their natures and structures. I was fascinated by the procedure of combining my understanding of things with my

In the course Printing Technology and Direct Mail Advertising, my teacher arranged design tasks to us every class, but it seemed that our designs were always far from meeting his requirement. I even doubt that his teaching style made our innovation discouraged. However, by the end of the course, when I was tidying up my former works, I found that they were just like a biography of me which witnessed my growth. I suddenly realized that his expectation was more like a driving force that urged me to move forward. This experience will continually remind me to keep an insatiable desire for knowledge in my future studies and