Hello Hive Learners, how are you today ?, i hope everyone is good today and welcome to the new week of contest
The 46th week was very exciting and many contestants always took part in the 46th week contest from the first to the last. In week 46 there were also many interesting contests that made many participants take part in the contest this week, but the contest in week 46 has just ended and this time we will enter the contest in week 47. Week 47 also seems to be coming takes place with great excitement where many interesting topics will be discussed starting from the first edition to the last edition. And as usual, the first edition was opened with a very interesting contest title to discuss, which is about our experience when we were still amateurs or newbies in something, and of course everyone must have felt it before they really became an expert in their field.
For that reason, I will also discuss a little about this in this post, so let's check this out...
Being an amateur in a field is indeed a bit tough, where as an amateur we have to learn more about what we are doing and have to find out more about things and details from people who are already very experts. Sometimes being an amateur makes us feel very insecure, but you need to know that everyone who is an expert, they still feel the period when they become an amateur. Even the greatest athlete in the world was once an amateur and was laughed at by his friends because of his amateurism.
I myself am also an amateur in many fields, and even I often get ridiculed and laughed at from my other friends, of course this is a little sad but this is a valuable lesson and I will never be ashamed if I make mistakes at times. I'm still an amateur because mistakes for an amateur are a valuable lesson and experience, and in some cases an amateur is allowed to make some mistakes because they can learn from their mistakes.
I'm still an amateur in some of the things I do and even within the Hive platform itself I'm still quite an amateur. This was felt even more when I first learned to draw and of course I learned only through television broadcasts which only aired a few minutes on Sunday morning at that time. When I see those who are very professional at drawing cartoons easily, quickly, and very well, I feel like imitating them, but only seeing them for a few minutes each week makes my learning process very slow. Finally I started trying to imitate it little by little and as you can imagine, when I first drew even I myself felt that my own drawing was really ugly.
Of course, an amateur must study harder to become a professional. And to achieve this I also continued to practice drawing while I was at school, I used books, blackboards, walls, and so on as media for me to draw, I even drew on the ground. From each medium that I use, over time my hands become trained and become flexible to make every line in my drawing. Aside from that, when I first started learning to draw, I often copied pictures from magazines, television, and even caricatures in newspapers, but as an amateur, of course my drawings were worse. I don't want to plagiarize, because tracing is not part of learning. Indeed, it takes a long time if we learn by only watching tutorials once a week on television, but this is what makes me sharpen my imagination in drawing.
For an amateur, practice is key. I spent days just practicing drawing, understanding shapes and lines, and soon I was drawing better, slightly more life-like cartoons. At that time the fun started and the desire to keep drawing and practicing increased, and I also didn't miss my precious tutorials every Sunday morning on television. And after I got used to it, I also on several occasions met my friends who also like to draw like me and this made me very enthusiastic to exchange knowledge because a newbie of course has to study harder with others and be a more professional person, and I did I did well, which was marked by my drawing results getting better day by day and as a result my drawing grades when I was in school were never below 70 or my grades were always B. For a newbie, this was an extraordinary achievement for me at that time.
And after studying and practicing really hard, now I can draw well and use a lot of media, colors and other attributes so that people think I have the ability in that field. Even so, I'm still a newbie when compared to professional painters who have won many competitions and awards, traveled the world, and sold their paintings at fantastic prices even though their paintings look abstract.
This is of course a small example that everyone is a newbie in their field, and must study and learn so that their dexterity and sharpness will get better, of course.
For me, there is no benchmark for someone to be called a professional, but a professional is someone who wants to learn, practice, and pursue their field to be better day by day.
