My start to #whatnurindraws

My first draft to this floral pattern. I hate how I took a picture of this. Didn't thought that this would be up on my blog, but yea. An ugly picture of my first drawing. -.-

Here's to my final draft!

This post can actually be the reason why I'm up for calligraphy because this happened to be my very first drawing.  

So one day, I was bored at home and I decided to do some doodling. I didn't thought that I could do an excellent job in drawing because it has never come across my mind that I would live my life revolving around art. Firstly because I hated art back when I was in secondary school. I thought it was a waste of time and a risk to my O level results (laughs). I never touched any art tools since then, until now I decided to get back to it again. 

As I was scribbling through, I had a good feeling that it would turn out nice (I had to praise myself for this). And when it's all done, I told myself 'Yes that's it. I think I wanna continue doing this.' and that's how I started to continue my passion of drawing, or rather calli. Only because I was bored, and I definitely didn't expect anything from it. I accidentally found my passion through doodling.

People have been complaining and questioning why don't they have a passion or talent to anything. Well, the truth is I was one of them. I had two traits- one who loves to question everything, and the other was to be afraid to go after what I want. I never looked down on art students. To me, they are an awesome bunch of people who are full of creativity. I do wish I could be like them, but the fact that one of my traits had to take over me, I resist myself from being one. Until one day, I decided to uncover my less obvious interest which until now, I do not know what makes me motivated to do it. 

And as I go about doodling more drawings, I was exposed to recitations of Quran and the language of it; Arab. As I recite, I observed and learnt how the words are actually written. So one day, I decided to study the meaning of certain words through translation and YouTube videos. I started off drawing to only Quranic inscriptions, such as Bismillah, Shahadah, and various Attributes of Allah SWT. And as I learn to understand the meaning (somehow) and the units of proportion in Thuluth calligraphy, I took a step ahead to do Zoomorphic Calligraphy which was mostly a poem taken from the sites. Calligraphy is rather a 'heavy' art to follow, because a missing or an additional letter or sign to your inscriptions could have an additional or lack of meaning to your whole piece. 

Indeed, Islamic Calligraphy is a precious gift of Allah to Muslims. It is obvious that Muslims from whatever race and background, location or climate, depend themselves a lot on the Arabic letters to be a good Muslim. They depend on the Arabic letters to recite the Holy Quran, the sayings of the prophet Muhammad, and beyond that, to be a part of their daily life.