Did You Forget You’re an Artist?

After taking an art class for two years in high school, I felt as if the teacher made it work and not enjoyable. She would draw over my work to correct it to how she wanted it. I stopped taking art and almost altogether stopped drawing; which was a huge change since I wanted to be a fashion designer at the time.
When I tried to go back to drawing, I found myself frustrated because I couldn’t sketch the clothes I once envisioned so easily. I felt as if I couldn’t draw how I used to or as well because of my absence. My one talent in life was now gone and I felt so empty without it. Feeling this way for years, I tried other hobbies and failed miserably; even injuring myself in dance. I no longer saw myself as having talent.
It wasn’t until recently that I realized that I never stopped being an artist. I just relocated my creativity to other medias. Thinking of all the past times I now enjoy, I realize that almost all of them have an artistic base.
Trying new things with makeup, making videos for people that may have similar issues and interests that I had growing up. The anime I love is all art; even the movies I love the most are the most vivid in sight and in story line. The fact that I take pictures of the meals I make and have to position everything in an appealing way is creative in itself. Before I started this blog, I always kept a journal where I wrote fan fiction along with my own thoughts. Writing for the newsletter in high school along with making opinionated essays and speeches that my teachers would always commend me on. And lastly, my ability to argue with anyone, about anything, and almost always have the opposing party agree.
I shrugged all of this off as random quirks of personality but didn’t see that all took a great amount of creativity to achieve effectively and more importantly talent. In a school where talent is only seen as being a genius or an athlete, it’s important to remember that artistry is an equal skill. In fact, without creativity most famous scientists and athletes wouldn’t be where they are today; they wouldn’t know how to harness their skills and make it something unique to get to the next level.
I probably never will be a great runner or completely understand physics, but I’ll always have my creativity and artistic outlook which doesn’t make me any less unique of a person.