I’m 66. I started painting watercolor portraits about 6 months ago. It is a great hobby. It is very challenging for me to attempt to paint a realistic representation of a human being, but it’s also fun. The Drawing Academy lessons may help me to make better portrait drawings and paintings, and that’s the ultimate goal.
Dear Drawing Academy Team,
I have been getting your emails for quite some time, and I finally thought I might enter your competition to win the Drawing Academy classes…
Ever since I came across the Drawing Academy website and their approach to traditional drawing, I’ve been really interested with the Old Masters. How they can convey such great emotion, force, power, fragileness with only a few strokes? This is what I wanted to know. I did a lot of research on YouTube and various social media but I couldn’t find any great answer.
The Drawing Academy picked my interest in searching ways to learn and improve my art skill. The Drawing Academy helped me understand that art can be really beautiful, and all you need is knowledge and dedication. For days, I searched for that knowledge, reading all the things that the Academy tutors say about anatomy, perspective, human figure and so on. And in my frantic research, I stumble across one name: Ilya Repin, St. Petersburg. Someone mentioned it and said they studied there, since then my interest was picked and I gathered all the information I could about this amazing school.
My name is Izuchukwu Clifford Agba. I am a Visual Artist. I like drawing and painting. Art is my first love. I think more of art, I work harder to create and try as much as possible to live art.
My name is Dana. I am very creative and active person. I only draw with a positive attitude; after all, what mood I have reflects in my artworks.
In my life, art takes a very special part. However, I can’t draw! Each time I try, I do my best, but drawings are not perfect.
This competition gives me a real chance to win the Drawing Academy course, which I believe will change my life!
I have challenges with drawing in perspective and drawing three-dimensional objects. I do not know how to draw faces, figures and do correct proportions.
In art, I want to learn everything from the smallest details to big topics and be able to do a great art.
A long time ago (30 years or more now) I drew a picture of my five-year-old daughter. I found it the other day and instantly the memories started flooding back. I remembered how she sat there fidgeting, giggling and us both laughing. That poor little drawing brought back all those memories and more.
Now I am retired and my daughter has children of her own. I try to draw every day but find I lack the skills to portray what I see. That saying, “Can’t see the forest for the trees”. I seem to have it backwards. The detail in the “trees” is missing. I would love to learn to portray my grandchildren and capture their real essence and personalities with these missing details.
The community of the Drawing Academy reminds of the Guilds of the Italian Renaissance. Those schools of would be artisans being taught by Great Masters with pupils following in their footsteps and becoming Masters in their own right is a wonderful tradition to aspire to.
My name is Robyn. I am a wife and mother of one precious 6 year old boy. I am also a disabled person.
All my life I have been interested in art. I took art classes when I was young, but I was never any good.
After being very ill for 3 years, I felt the urge to start drawing. In June 2016 I picked up a pencil and I could actually draw! This gives me an outlet that I use to make other people happy. I draw lots of pet portraits and give them to my friends and family.
I have always been interested in drawing & painting, but was not encouraged into Art as a career… life somehow took over and it wasn’t till late in life that I started painting.
Art for me is about being creative and bringing joy & beauty into one’s life.
I am not able to attend an art college full time, so it’s mainly self-study with books and some workshops when commitments permit.
Learning is & always will be a lifetime process… never too old, never too late, never too smart (clever/skilled) to learn something new & improve.
Drawing Academy sounds great as I’ve always leaned towards figure drawing & portraits like the old masters…
My name is Caleb and I’m taking art classes at NWFSC. Art is a fun hobby for me.
My challenges in art are my creativity or lack thereof. I want to learn different ways to express emotion in art.
Drawing Academy seems like a nice place to learn art. So that I can increase my abilities in making art people will enjoy.
I am having difficulty with a life-drawing portrait. If it is a picture, I can draw, but if it is life, I am having problems. It is not working well. Please advise me what to do to enhance my skills in life-drawing portraits.
