Artwork and story from Regina da Silva
I have always liked to draw and people seemed to like what I did. I noticed good improvements with little bits of practice. Although I didn’t practice consistently. But especially in high school, a friend of mine taught me some things she knew about shade and light, and since then I began liking it more to practice. I noticed good improvements because of her influence. But I have since felt so unsatisfied with what I’d find when I’d try to learn more. I don’t like modern art that much, and I was always asking myself where could I find traditional education in arts? I like those old (classical) paintings and statues from the masters. Just like how I also like scholastic philosophy. So it’s important for me to get back to it and keep it going. Both with training my drawing skills and improving, but with producing more art as well because the world thirsts for beauty. And if it can be me helping produce beauty, so I see it as a duty. At least to explore this link I already feel with art.
The Drawing Academy felt like an oasis for me. A breath of fresh air. It’s like what I have been looking for, for so long, but wouldn’t find. I watched some of the free classes and noticed immediate improvement with my portrait sketching. And I’m sure I’ll dive deeper. Especially I have loved how you insist one must know to draw from imagination: and that’s exactly what I feel inclined to do. People always told me I should copy. But somehow, it felt like copying takes away from creative freedom. And I wanted to know only the essential to be able to draw from imagination. And if I was to copy, I wanted to know how to do it really as a study, to understand how light behaves and so on. In other words, only if it was to copy in order to take lessons, but not for the sake of copying. As I didn’t see a point in copying… especially since photos are so easy to take now a days. Unless I was to copy but add a different flair. And I’d need to know how to do it then.
Why people should vote for me? Well… first and foremost, because I cannot afford the course. I pay rent and earn just a little above minimum wage. And my artistic goal is not financial, but simply to try to produce beauty. Which is something people should look for when voting in a candidate. If for some reason, someone thinks I can do that, if they see potential in me to produce something they’d like to see by learning more, I make the commitment of never giving up. And of practicing often and consistently. Time I have plenty, since I don’t have children – due to fertility problem… and I don’t have a very social life because I’m introverted. So I guarantee I’m taking it serious and it’s what I see myself doing during all my free time. If you’re looking for someone who will not waste the course that’s given to them, then you can vote for me.
Here’s my artwork, I made it some 10 years ago. It was a study I made by my own. – I never went to any art school nor any course on drawing.
