My Creativity and my Education

It’s no surprise to me when I found out that this was a competitive program and only some many could be let in and it all fell on their portfolio work. To me though trying to get into a creative program you must have some sort of creativity. When I was younger, my parents always told me to do something that I enjoyed and I loved to draw and paint. When I was 12 all I ever did was draw out monster pictures movie scenes and what ever cam across my mind. They also were both from different ends of the spectrum, my mom was the creative one and my dad was the technical one. So to be frank on some way, both were pushing me to both ends of the spectrum. They never really forced me they more opened up my eyes to see what there was lying down the road in both directions. This showed me that the biggest part of my Education was influenced by them.

When I was in elementary school about to go to high school they said I need a great education in order to go to university. They never said that I needed a creative or a academic education, it was up to me to decide where and what I wanted to do. In grade 9 I took what ever interested me woodshop, art, music and science. I then lead towards art and began following my creative path. Eventually a whole lot more opened up for me along the path. Communication technologies, media studies, video production and advanced art classes, were just some of the options I could take. Decided in grade 11 that I wanted to work more with computers and it was here that was the real conundrum. I took two different types of computer courses, one that was graphic design related and the other was based on creating applications and software programs. Both were both interesting and fun and it came down to the boiling point of which I would want to take after high school. The tiebreaker was the school’s yearbook.

I was on the yearbook committee and was stationed to design the swim team page the grad’s page and a few other sports teams and events pages. I was lead designer at the time since I was in grade 12 at the time and out year book editor told us that we all had a chance if we wanted to do design the front cover of the year book. I was excited and took up the challenge. I worked on it more than anything else and pushed aside all other work to get the cover. I had asked everyone I knew what they though the school represented to him or her and how they interpreted this year’s theme “Unscripted”. I got a lot in insightful, inspirational and creative ideas from everyone. It then came down to two decisions in the end, my own and someone else’s. The other one got chosen and I was disappointed, but my graphic arts teacher told me that he was really impressed with my work and he voted for it and that I took the reject really well. It was here that I knew that I was appreciated for my work, not like my other technical analysis class, and that I wanted to go towards the graphic arts career.

That being said, I feel that a lot of my creativity developed at home and also from my friends. I started drawing and learned even more art techniques and eventually learned computer software programs that could do even more with art. I feel that I did learn a lot from those classes and I am lucky to have had the experience with each of those teachers in them. I feel that if had not been given these amazing opportunities that I would have gotten myself into something more boring like the technical analysis computer class that I had before. I believe that I have been destined to do creative work and even if it were not in the graphic arts area it would have been something similar because I was determined to something in the arts spectrum.