Art has been a big part of my life. It has helped me express my creativity and emotions. But it has also helped me have fun and release any negativity that I have outside of life. I’ve always enjoyed drawing since I was younger, especially drawing many different cartoon shows like Power Rangers and Pokemon. Those shows have influenced me to become more serious about art and develop a passion for art but now as my future career. I have been drawing since I was a child until now when I am a young adult. I draw every day to improve this talent and show others my art, and I've also developed relationships with my community and family by creating art that also represents where I come from. I create characters that will someday inspire other youth like myself to be proud of where they come from. I started my art journey by drawing the Pokemon from the library books I would read. When drawing Pokemon I started to learn some of the fundamentals like implementing shapes to sketch the actual drawing and learning how to create good proportions for my art. After learning from Pokemon I went and started drawing characters from my favorite animes. When drawing those, helped me understand a little bit about human anatomy and using more shapes for the structure of the body. At that point, I was happy with what I drew, but I felt like something was missing from my art. So that’s when I started to add more color to my pieces and that helped me find the missing piece within my art. From there I kept practicing drawing and started to learn more by watching videos on YouTube. But now, I feel like I can do more than just draw something and color it, I can tell a story with my art. I learned this extra skill by taking an AP Art class right now for my senior year. This class has helped me improve the simplicity of the art. It also helped create my first original piece one that I never thought I would make too. It’s fun sitting in the class and just drawing, it gave me more freedom and enjoyment with art. Also while taking this art class, I’ve been thinking about having a career in art and studying in an art school when I go to college. Without that class, I wouldn’t have been able to have the motivation to strive for an art career. Throughout this whole process of my art journey, I’ve learned that it takes lots of time to improve on what you want to do, and when you do improve you’ll start enjoying this talent that you’ve improved on. I’m happy that I’m choosing this path with art and would like to see what my future holds with my art journey.