This past couple of semesters I have not been striving to better myself in my artistic ability. The reason for this has been because I have been suffering from too many professors who just aren't motivating or are not able to teach the way they were able to a few years or a decade back.

However, the more I think back on it the more I see it also ties in to being my fault. I shouldn't need another person to motivate me in order to get better at what I do best. I need to push myself so then and only then I can say that I am proud of my work. It's just that having such teachers really drained a lot out of me when I had them, I didn't want to do their assignments, I wouldn't want to show up to class, I even took advantage of those teachers not because they are nice now because they aren't, but because I just saw it laying there.

However, I don't want to make excuses for myself starting this semester because if I do then I only prove to myself that I'm not the artist I aspired to become and that I will never get to that position. But now I have a better outlook in my artistic life, I will use my closest friends in school as rivals and even help them when they come across flaws that they don't see to always increase the competition. All of this to see that I am at least at the same level as them or better because I really have no excuse.

I will strive for top satisfaction because what's best in life doesn't come free, it only comes through hard work and dedication. I look forward to this semester not only in my school Illustration projects but my own personal ones as well. You'll be seeing a whole lot more of me this year!