I know how to draw but I am not an artist. Since high school, I’m learning various aspects of drawing. Daily, I would scribble something at the back of notebook and if there are plain papers, expect to see some drawings, be it just a simple pencil sketch or a colorful collage. Of course there are many students who like me love art and we have similar interest. It is also good to know there are people who are very much like what you like. We share some points and techniques. But it will just boil down to pure instinct and skill that you cannot simply transfer it or share it to another. If there are people with the same interest, competition will occur. This contest is a drawing contest, which is a healthy competiotion. I have been competing with my schoolmates on different grades. Fortunately, I won some competitions.
Moving fast forward, before I graduated in high school, normally you will look for a college or university to pursue a college degree and one way or another, pursue your interest and dreams. And because I draw a lot, making house portraits is one type of painting that I really like because I am a frustrated architect. Not too lucky, I didn’t pass the entrance examinations of the university that I am dreaming of. Notwithstanding, it didn’t take so much time when the interest of painting a house, from the exterior to the interior dawns on me. I normally paint a house or two during my free time and also paint in the weekends if I’m not traveling.
I tried going into oil painting hobby, but making oil portraits are really difficult. You should be knowledgeable the combination of paints and of course, unlike pencil, you could not undo what you already did. What you can do is to put another layer of paint to cover or to edit your mistakes.
Now, because of technology, one can easily and instantly produce a picture that is like an artist’s painting. There are various photo rendering applications that can easily make a photo to oil painting in a snap. All you have to do is to use a digital picture and with a click of the button, it can be rendered into any other types of painting, be it in watercolor, oil, pastel, crayons, pencil, any way you want it. People are lucky to have this technology that anyone can be a painter in minutes!