Well, I started learning art when I was 4 at Yamaha music and art school ( now called Yamaha music school ). I was taught by Mr Wee, the first person to teach me how to draw humans, for a while. When I was around 7 years old, my teacher changed to Miss Wong. She taught my class about the theory of colours which included the primary and secondary colours and how colours make people feel. She was the first person to teach me how to paint using poster colours, which I continued practicing for another seven years. Those were the happy days at Yamaha until they decided to change Yamaha music and art school into Yamaha music school. Then, Miss Wong still wanted to teach us so she held classes at her house. Because of this incidence, I hate Yamaha for suddenly changing an art and music school into a music school and leaving all the art students behind. Then at the classes at Miss Wong's house, I learnt how to draw 3 dimensional images, the tedious art of dotting, manuscript, copper tooling and many more. Finally at Primary 6, I stopped going to her classes as I needed to study for PSLE. At first, I thought that it would be a temporary stoppage but eventually I stopped going for art classes completely. Before I knew it I got my results back and I was posted to Victoria school. There, I received a leaflet stating "The Victoria Art Elective Program" and I realised that maybe I could still continue learning art. Then, I got into the program and during the first module of drawing and painting, I did quite well as I was familiar with a paint brush. Then, I learned how to use adobe photoshop to edit pictures. At first, I was horrible with the program and my pictures were horrible like this one.
Then by the end of Sec 1, my skills improved by quite a bit and I took part in a photoshop competition and I submitted this work.
I think you will agree with me once you see the difference in the pictures but I am no professional yet. I have just stepped onto the starting line of a race of using photoshop. This software is of the industry standard and there are many functions and keys in it. Even Mr Zabid who has been teaching and using this software for along time says that he is no professional. Now that I have reached sec 2, I have started to learn the different things that photoshop can do. For example , a week ago, Mr Zabid did a crash course on how to do typographical portraits in 3 days for some visitors from the united states to view us having lessons. This is what I managed to do.
As I said before, this was done during a crash course so there is not much quality in this portrait. A typographical portrait is a portrait of oneself made of words. For example, if you look closely you will notice that my hair is made up of the words "my name is sharil" and my face is information about myself. I am not too sure if you have noticed, but this type of typographical portraits are like the letter M of MacDonald's on their cold drinks cups. These are used for advertisements or even portraits of important people like Steve jobs. Wow, only after writing so much have I realised how much art has impacted my life. I cannot say that everyone will love art but I hope everyone can at least appreciate art like I do.
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