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My daughter loves to draw. Honestly, at 11, she might already be able to
draw better than I can. That's not saying a whole lot, though, but I think
she has potential. She LOVES anime, and that's where her artistic interest
lies. She wants to be an "animator".
When I was younger, I loved to draw and paint, and perhaps I could have
developed that part of myself, but instead, I decided to take a much more
practical view of the rest of my life, and went into the computer field,
essentially guaranteeing (I hoped) that I would have a job somewhere. Do I
have regrets? A little. Do I think I made the wrong choice? No. But what
I do think about is that I could have still mixed-in some art classes in
high school and college. Instead, I went all-out geek, and only took
"geeky" classes: programming (obviously), math, physics, chemistry, etc.
That's what I regret.
But as for my daughter, she may have more potential than I did. She will
likely never be a Salvador Dali, or Hayao Miyazaki, but perhaps she could be
a Yoshitoshi Abe (one of my favorite animators). Or maybe she'll change her
mind when she's 16. Who knows. I just want to make sure that I encourage
her in the mean-time, and if she does choose to take the artistic path, I'd
like to know what that entails, but I don't know anything.
Any advice? Tips?
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