Appreciation Letter

    I'm writing this letter to appreciate three art teachers I met through high school year: Mrs. Isobe, Mrs. Bicklelhaupt, and Mrs Bruns.
    I was interested about art because animation and manga, when I was in Art I, I think I can practice manga skills everyday. However, the reality is always different than imagination. In Mrs. Isobe's class, manga seems been discriminated, and when I got ideas for the projects, the answers were usually "NO". Art I was so boring for me because I could't draw what I wanted most of the time. However, thanks Mrs. Isobe so I have developed some drawing skills and common senses of different kinds of arts. The next year, I was still in Mrs. Isobe's class as Art II, and my realistic drawing skill was way better than in Art I. Later I believed art wasn't only one kind, but it's impossible to sharp all kinds of art skills, so I thought I need to focus on at least one of them. My decision at that time was realistic pencil drawing, which it was the best skill I had. At the same time, I forgot my original goal of learning art: create fantasia through imagination and the skills I have. Realistic, realistic, and only realistic, not else...
    My thought changed again while I met my AP Art teacher, Mrs. Bickelhaupt and computer graphic teacher, Mrs. Bruns. Mrs. Bickelhaupt, you never taught me exactly that to do and what not to do, you always gave me hints when I experienced obstacles, and I have to say, thank you Mrs. Bicklelhaupt to gives me so much free time for exploring what I really want, and I won't be confused now, what I really want is cg and anime style digital drawing, the way to present individual style, ideas and imaginations through art. And thanks Mrs. Bruns to teach me some digital skills to improve my digital art. However I think those research journals are totally a waste of time, it will be better to teach more skills instead of them, and I think learning the desired skills are always more interesting than those boring papers.