Who doesn’t want to win?

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Story and artwork from Aleks Mcclary

Look, I know could tell you my life story about how I grew up in Russia where the land was sparse and the food even more so, but let’s not. Such stories are for novels and documentaries and unless your Harry Potter no one is interested. My name is Aleks I’m an avid reader and was a writer however after some time I started to lose my interest in writing and could not pursue it any longer. Not in the way I wanted to anyways. The things I wanted to depict in writing I could not, and it scared me. Growing up I always made scribbles here and there trying to depict what was in my head, coming to a great realization that maybe this is why the old masters turned to the arts. Some things can’t be said or even written about they can only be shown. I do not love art I treasure it even if it’s a simple sketch someone else has made, its everything to me. In my eyes art is everywhere it is in the way a person sits or in the way the clouds drift apart from one another as if in a goodbye. Anyone who looks closely and wants to paint or sketch these things realizes this, which is why it means so much to me. Moving on from that I’ve always had great visions of what I want on a canvas but truthfully have not been able to afford to go to art school or even online school, to me it’s a dream I can’t even think about because I don’t have the spare change and I can’t even be a starving artist cause I’m not even yet an artist. Haha. If I could move past my technical limitations due to ignorance I believe I can change the art world to make meaningful art. In my studies I would be able to learn what is missing and finally be able to paint the visions in my head and learn the techniques of the old masters who came long before certain colors even existed on their color wheel.

Drawing Academy would enable me to have a first step towards my goal of becoming a true artist and not just a scribbler that is why I want to win. I understand education is not free nor would I want it to be but this would be a dream of mine to be able to get into this school. You don’t have to vote for me but if you do I just know that whoever you are out there in this world I am grateful. Vote for me if you believe art is more than just a picture. If you believe art can change that world because that is what I want to do. Art can change the world and we need it now more than ever. It is the artists job to record humanity in its full form whatever time that artist is alive in. Or maybe if you think I’m bat shit crazy two paint strokes away from making art in mental rehab. In my sketch somewhere on the screen your hopefully looking at there’s me trying to attempt at drawing a bird which if I’m being honest with myself is kind of a fail. Nonetheless I tried to work out the shape of the bird if I could have a teacher mentor me and show me how to really draw what I see I believe I can do a whole lot better. Thank you for your time I’m sorry I couldn’t come up with anything else to say but that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.