Whether it’s drawing, sculpting, music or even sports, everyone is good at different things. Whatever the skill is, there’s at least one thing in common — it’s something people enjoy. 

“The main thing for everything is you have to practice things to get good at them,” senior Klaudia Manis said.

Practice makes perfect. 

It’s a statement that has been used over and over again. but it does apply to a lot of things people do, including hobbies. 

Manis is good at a lot of things — music, drums, guitar and piano, as well as Tai Chaun Do, which is mixed martial arts, and photography. 

Enjoying art is also something she has in common with many others, including Natalie Brown, the pottery wheel and sculpture teacher. 

“I was always artsy as a kid, and then when I was about 12, my mom decided she wanted to take a weaving class at a local art center and she made me sign up for an art class,” Brown said. “One I thought would be cool at the same time was a pottery class, so that’s the first class I took.” 

Brown works with clay and water color mostly, and a lot of her work has to do with floral themes. 

Brown got really into clay during college where she would skip her core class just to go to her art studio to work on her pieces. 

That is when she switched majors. She realized how much she enjoyed it.

“If you enjoy something it’s really hard to get good at it because you don’t want to do it,” Manis said. “ I think, since these are all things I enjoy and I like doing, I was able to push myself even harder than if I didn’t like them.”