What Are You Passionate About?

I'm passionate about Christ. I want to glorify Him in everything I do.
I'm passionate about making everyone happy. Seeing them smile gives me satisfaction.
I'm passionate about doing the best I can in any given situation.
I'm passionate about my impression on others. 
I'm passionate about self-confidence - being well-dressed. 
I'm passionate about each day...being alive! and living everyday to the fullest.
I'm passionate about communicating my thoughts effectively with others.
I'm passionate about education, learning new things everyday.
I'm passionate about myself, so that I enable myself to be passionate about things in life - Love yourself.
I'm passionate about ....PASSION.

"Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?" 

the halfway point of a term

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Maniken - Posterior

This first half of the semester definitely went by fast. It has been a crazy, yet incredible journey. I have learned so many things that I normally either didn't care or didn't know about. I say that I didn't care because when I don't know much information about something, I just say I don't care about those things to not sound stupid for not knowing. I thought I knew what I was doing when I first attended the class until we got into the details of how muscles layer in our bodies. I believe that my drawing skills has gotten a lot better after learning about how the muscles align and layer together. I loved how we broke down into different sections of the body, no more than three muscles at once. It helped us to have a better understanding of each muscle and learn how they collide together, rather than learning everything at once, which could have been a really hard task for us. I was having such hard time with the "eggs" and the spine, which led me into having trouble with the frontal line, also. But it became so much easier for me to draw the figure after actually seeing how the muscles overlap inside our bodies, and after our Professor sat down and drew examples for us. I guess I'm more of a visual person. After all, I am an artist. I need to visualize what I'm doing first, then I can nail it. I very much enjoyed drawing the pelvis and thigh muscles in, because drawing in just the ribcage or the egg, and the spine was getting boring for me.   I remember, we had to just draw the model anyway we wanted to. Everyone has a different way of portraying things, and I think It was a great idea for our Professor to develop our drawing skills as we know them, and move further into it by drawing accurate figures. I look forward and desire to learn more and more about how human body is formed and learn how to draw them in my own style as the semester goes on. 

To what extent do you think our lives are shaped by early stimulation, by parents, and by peers? Nature vs. Nurture? This issue has been around for ages and no one has still concluded which of the two has a greater effect on a person. I believe both contribute to a complete personality of a person. I think that parents and peers influence us while we are younger, and we become more of ourselves as we grow older. We try to come up with our own opinions rather than speaking of somebody else's as if they were our thoughts. Our personalities are shaped by the experiences we take on during our lives. Although parents and peers play a big role in our lives, we want to be unique, not like anybody else. I do believe that children are shaped by their parents, because they imprint on the actions of their parents, its safe to say that children are shaped by their parents. And that later when they're in their teen-age years, they follow what their peers do to fit in. Then when people come of age they try to become their own, so-called true self. The nature and nurture has to balance into our lives, it helps kids develop. I personally was influenced by my parents instead of my peers. Its true that they shape the kids at a young age, but that people grow to want to be individuals and not follow everyone else. I'll end my thought by sharing a quote by a famous psychologist Donald Hebb. He is said to have once answered a journalist's question of "which, nature or nurture, contributes more to personality?" by asking in response, "which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, its length or its width?"

As far as drawing goes, adding the muscles on our manikins definitely helped my drawing skills by knowing where all the muscles lie and overlap. 

- This is it, Joel. It's gonna be gone soon.

- I know.

- What do we do?

- Just enjoy it....

愛人 (A Lover)

愛人.

사랑(애)

사람(인)

생각하면 할수록 참 매력있는 단어다.

愛= 기(旡,목메다)+심(心,마음)+치(夂, 뒤져 오다)

애(愛)자는 은혜와 사랑을 받아 마음이 메어 차마 발걸음이 떨어지지 않아 뒤쳐져 걷는 모습을 형상화한 글자라고 한다.

이런 뜻을 가진 애(愛)자에 사람 인(人)자를 합해 만들어진 단어가 애인(愛人).

애인은 ‘남을 사랑 하다’와 ‘사랑하는 사람’ 등의 뜻으로 알려져 쓰이지만,

그 속에 담긴 깊은 의미는 '사랑을 베풀어 남의 마음을 감동시키는 사람’이라고 풀이할 수 있다.

愛人.. 사랑을 베풀어 남의 마음을 감동시키는 사람.

난 愛人.

Follow Your Heart. Do What You Love.

To do something well you have to like it. To do something that's worth your time, you have to love it. It's not as easy as it sounds, doing what you love is a lot more complicated than you think. Even figuring out what you love is a hard task. As for me, I have hard times trying to figure out what's best for me. Sometimes, I get confused when people tell me their opinion and tell me that they're right and I should think that way too. Then I get persuaded and start thinking, "Oh, that makes sense," and start to think like them when I should be creating my own opinion to things. And sometimes I feel like I need to follow everyone else's heart in order to "fit in," when it should be the opposite. So I have decided to "Follow My Heart." Cliche? It's a simple statement, yet so complicated. Most of us struggle with this--forming an opinion, following our own heart. There are so many ideas that float around in my head, topics that are debated, and controversial issues that are discussed. I need to have a solid basis for my opinion on these topics, my very own voice of opinion in order to follow my heart, my dreams. It gets so confusing when it comes to figuring out what it is that I absolutely love. I'm still learning, figuring out what it is that keeps me alive. Then I came across this encouraging message I got from a good friend of mine a couple of weeks ago when I was trying to decide whether I wanted to transfer or not: "I know that you will make the right decision for yourself no matter what. Some people view following your heart as a weakness but I see it as a strength to follow something that is so uncertain. I love you. Sweet dreams." I haven't deleted this message, and I don't plan to. I look at it time to time when I'm discouraged, and it gives me comfort, and courage to get back up again and keep following something that is so unsure.. After all, "everything happens for a reason."

Now I'll turn my head to Life Drawing.. I had an incredibly hard time drawing a male model on Friday. It was really hard for me to see the "egg" and other muscles. I find it easier to draw a female than a male model. This is definitely a challenge for me. They seem to look a lot different than the ones of the female model's. I feel that I draw women better than I draw men, because I'm more familiar with the female body, my own body. I think a female form is a far more interesting subject because of the curvy, flowy outer lines. 

FEMALE

MALE