Chen Kexin, a “female academic master of Jinzhong in Shantou, pursues dreams and is the first in the province in the college entrance examination to get the total score of art in the province
Text/Photo Yangcheng School reporter Zhao Yingguang
The annual high school starts again. Komiks school starts the school season. Recently, freshmen from colleges across the country have different dreams and have entered their ideal schooling hall. In the beautiful Tsinghua Park in Beijing, Shantou girl Chen Kexin is also one of them. The difference is that this girl who knocked on the door of Tsinghua University with a paintbrush and won the first place in Guangdong Province’s art candidate with a total score of 613. She turned around for her dream during the summer vacation of her second year of high school and began to receive art system training. Her journey to pursue her dreams seems to be more difficult than that of ordinary people.
Chen Kexin showed her admission letter to reporters
Chen Kexin, who has been a “school master” since childhood, successfully advanced to Shantou Jinshan Middle School, a famous school in eastern Guangdong after the high school entrance examination, and once won the first place in the liberal arts of the school. She has always been a good girl at home, but in the next semester of her first year of high school, Cinema made a decision that stunned her parents, teachers and classmates – embarking on the road to the art exam with an uncertain future. Chen Kexin said that this decision was “just to grasp my own life”, and all of this started with her dream of a designer when she was a child…
Give up literature and art: unwilling to follow the path set by her parents
The reporter recently saw at Chen Kexin’s home that this is a bookish home with a strong artistic and humanistic atmosphere. Various artworks with Chaoshan characteristics such as Chaoshan embroidery and wood carving can be seen everywhere. In Chen Kexin’s room, her desk was filled with various anime models and many painters.The sheets on her bed were also printed with cartoon characters that she had done by herself. Komiks
Chen Kexin, wearing two small braids, wearing a pair of rigorous round frames, and wearing a white shirt, looked full of vitality. In her conversation with reporters, she spoke and acted gracefully and showed her extroverted and cheerful side. According to Chen Kexin’s recollection, like many of her peers, she was in kindergarten at the age of four or five, and her parents enrolled her in the art interest class for the first time when she picked up a brush. She also fell in love with this art at that time.
”Since childhood, I have been fond of doing a lot of things, but only painting has been persevering all the way.” Chen Kexin told reporters that she is the only daughter in the family, and her parents work in government agencies and financial systems respectively. Her tutoring since childhood made her a very conscious good girl. Her parents also designed a steady growth trajectory for her early in the morning – to be admitted to a prestigious university and become a financial worker after graduation. Painting is just a kind of extracurricular interest to learn.
Chen Kexin’s father told reporters that his daughter has been very conscious and sensible since she was a child. He no longer had to worry about her studies since Chen Kexin was in the second grade. “Every time she finishes her homework, she will check it carefully several times. I also told her that she should check it herself, and if she does something wrong, she will be punished by herself the next day.” Chen Kexin’s father said that it is precisely because of this self-consciousness and seriousness that his daughter can rank among the top in the class in every exam. After entering Jinshan Middle School, she even passed the first place in the liberal arts in the school in her first year of high school.
But I thought my daughter would go on smoothly according to her own ideas, but when Chen Kexin first semester of senior high school, she learned that her daughter decided to embark on the road of art exams and strive for the designer dream that she had laid down as a child.
”My first reaction was surprise!” Chen Kexin’s father told reporters that he was opposed at the beginning. After all, there were too many uncertainties in the art exam, and Kexin had not received systematic art training. It can be said that it was “zero foundation”, and the risk of taking this path was too great. But Kexin said that she didn’t want to keep following the path set by her parents for her. She hoped that she could grasp her life by herself, insist on doing what she liked, and realize her childhood dream.
The origin of dreams: Hope to make the world a better place
When dreams conflict with reality, should we obey our parents’ arrangements or stick to our original dreams? Chen Kexin admitted that she had once struggled, but when she calmed down and slowly listened to the true voice deep in her heart, the dream that had been buried in her childhood made her resolutely choose art.Take the road to Komiks.
It turns out that since Chen Kexin came into contact with painting in an interest class in kindergarten, she fell in love with it uncontrollably. After entering elementary school, Chen Kexin was no longer satisfied with just simple painting, but began to design the plot and integrate her thoughts into the painting.
Chen Kexin is doing painting creation
Komiks Even in the third grade of elementary school, Komiks She began to create a comic strip called “Rainbow Flower”. Chen Kexin Babaylan said that this work was popular among students as soon as it was born, and everyone rushed to circulate it. Looking forward to Kexin’s updates every week. For a time, competing to read the comic Cinema‘s painting “Rainbow Flower” became a great pleasure for students’ extracurricular life, and the students also called Chen Kexin “little painters”.
The reporter saw that there were five comics called “Rainbow Flower”, each with about 50 pages. Whether in terms of illustration layout or text design, this comic is almost the same as published comic books. “It was not until junior high school that the update stopped. Later, some classmates asked if there were any updates,” said Chen Kexin.
Chen Kexin showed reporters some of her works by Babaylan
However, being a “painter” is not Chen Kexin’s dream since childhood. Her real dream is to be a designer. Speaking of this, Chen Kexin smiled embarrassedly and said that her original designer dream came from her greed when she was a child. Every time she passed by the Komiks bakery, she would look at the window.When she drooled in the cake, she said to herself, “I will design such a beautiful cake in the future!”
As she grew older, Chen Kexin’s dream of designing beautiful cakes also developed from the initial design of beautiful cakes to the later becoming a fashion designer and jewelry designer. When she was in high school, Chen Kexin began to be interested in architecture and environmental art design. In her spare time, she often painted architectural sketches at Jinshan Middle School surrounded by mountains and seas, and often went to the arcade streets and alleys of the old city of Shantou to experience the creative power brought by environmental art designers to the humanistic environment.
No matter what field the designers they become, in Chen Kexin’s opinion, they all have one thing in common – they seem to be able to wield the magic wand in their hands to make the world a better place. It is also through design that I hope to make the world a better sense of mission that makes Chen Kexin firmly believe in becoming a designer.
Dream-chasing journey: Going to Beijing alone for 9 months for “Devil Special Training”.
Brave people can always make their dreams come true. Chen Kexin’s persistence in her dream also touched her parents. They gradually changed from initial surprise and opposition to agreement and support.
For the support of her parents, Chen Kexin said that she was always grateful, as she wrote in a thank you letter: “For my dream, they found a studio and understood the market. They resolutely sent my daughter, who had no artistic background in the family and had a reckless courage to Beijing thousands of miles away. My mother was worried about her son’s journey, and my every move made them worry, and my parents always arranged for me. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanFighting all difficulties, she looks back at the warm harbor and strong backing. “
It is indeed as Chen Kexin wrote in her letter to thank her parents, the road to chasing her dreams is destined to be a lonely and arduous journey: when the classmates were sitting in the school classroom writing hard and preparing for the college entrance examination, she carried her bags and went to Beijing alone, drawing lines and smearing colors in the narrow studio.
Compared with the lively classroom atmosphere in the school, life in the Beijing studio seems boring. Chen Kexin told reporters that CinemaThe daily art classes range from 8 am to 10:30 pm. She learns sketching and colors during the day, and at night they are sketching classes. She only takes one hour off at noon. After class every night, she has to complete the homework assigned by the teacher. She often does not sleep until two o’clock in the night, and she has to rest on weekends. She can be called “devil’s special.””I don’t have time to have breakfast every morning because I’m so sleepy! And my whole face is dark every day. “Chen Kexin admitted that in nine months, she encountered a bottleneck period almost every month, “I just felt that she couldn’t draw well no matter how hard she painted, and wanted to give up every day! “Nevertheless, when her parents asked if Cinema wanted to give up, she still stubbornly refused every time, but occasionally shed tears of grievance on the phone.
Finally, hard work pays off. After nine months of hard work, Chen Kexin successfully won. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan has won the national 47th grade in the design category of the School of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, and has also obtained the Architecture Certificate of Central Academy of Fine Arts and Urban Art Design Certificate.
It was March this year, and there was only three months before the college entrance examination. In order to complete the review, during the last three months of the three-month sprint period, Chen Kexin “make up” in the school almost every day, and even did not go home on weekends. In addition to borrowing wrong questions from her classmates to review, she also checked for omissions and flaws through online classes, and tried her best to catch up with the review progress of other students. There was almost no leisure activities during this period.
Finally, after three months of sudden review, Chen Kexin and her classmates walked into the college entrance examination room. It is understood that this year’s college entrance examination department is Babaylan calculates the total score of professional courses and cultural courses. In the end, Chen Kexin won the first place in the province with a total score of 613 points and was successfully admitted to Tsinghua University. Chen KomiksKomiks‘s score made teachers and classmates say “unexpectedly”.
In this regard, Chen Kexin believes that the most important thing for her to achieve such results in just three months is to maintain a firm will and believe that as long as she works hard, there will be rewards. And when she is in the first and second year of high school, she must first lay a solid foundation in cultural courses, because the scores of cultural courses are href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks is the key to finally breaking the distance between candidates.
Chen Kexin reported to Tsinghua University
After studying at the beautiful Tsinghua University, Chen Kexin told reporters that her biggest plan at present is to study professional knowledge well. However, after Komiks, she strives to participate in more club activities and social activities, and while tempering herself, she also accumulates more social experience. It is best to be able to be a graduate student in the future.
Source|Yangcheng School
Editor|Wu Tong Intern Wei Xiaomin