Other Interests

Welcome to my arts and crafts collection!

 

When I'm not busy researching and writing, among my favourite pastimes are drawing, sculpting, and creating miniature dioramas. In terms of my crafting process, depending on the day and my workload, sometimes I'll make something from scratch with a bit of polymer clay, glue, paint etc while on other days, I'll get some some plastic toys and decorative flowers from Dollarama, and try to create a scene out of a Beatrix Potter story!

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When it comes to drawing on the other hand, this pastime has actually served me well in my journalistic work as I've gotten the chance  to create some digital illustrations for stories that my peers and I have written. 

 

Such creative hobbies allow me to channel my focus into a medium that does not demand perfection (surprisingly enough) and is very forgiving. While I love to write and produce other multimedia works of journalism, there can be a lot of pressure to "get it right" by adhering to certain guidelines. However, with crafting and drawing, I can map out my own vision—and then completely stray from it if I feel like it! 

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