My first drawing!

It was a long time ago that I began to draw, I was about 2 years old! My parents always encouraged me to improve my drawing skills when I was a toddler and later on when I became a preschooler. Although I had high scores at school, my mother had some worries about my studies because I was drawing More than I studied.

In junior high school, I participated in competitions of young fine arts in my home country. I won some small prizes at that time but I also lost some of my paintings because there was no news from the contest organizers! These paintings that I had taken a long time to make them. After that, in high school, I had painted a lot, more than any time, while my potential and energy were on top. I had met my drawing teacher who was an architect , he taught me a lot of techniques especially to realize the perspective, the degradation of colors and some other details.When I started mathematics studies in University of science and technology , I stopped drawing and of course it was not the best idea at all. Back then, I thought it was rational to focus much more on mathematics rather than being creative and do some art.

It seems to me that those who are used to drawing and who are talented should continue on even if they have other things to do, even if art was just a way of relaxation because it influences the main work that they're doing it!

Zahra Bensaidane.