My name is Aly. I’m trying to get feedback on my drawing to see if it’s even good. I appreciate this opportunity.
Winning the Drawing Academy course will help me build the self-esteem that I greatly lack and maybe make me actually feel good about myself …
I’m a freelance artist located in Vienna, Austria. I’m interested in art since my teenage years but due to my lack of self-confidence back these days, I never dared to believe I could draw.
I never met one of my two grandmothers, they were dead before I was born. From one of them I own some of her drawings and paintings. She mastered both these forms of art and I thought, why not try it too. Although I never met her, I can now connect with her by knowing how it is to learn such a wonderful skill.
So I took a good book from Barrington Barber and began to seriously start learning to draw. Anyone who tries something new, knows that only persistence is the key to success. I made progress and had a lot of fun while drawing…
This my first attempt at drawing a vase. I’ve included the vase itself. The widest part was at eye level.
Thanks in advance for your help…
Question from Helen Can you get a professional career in art if you take the Drawing Academy course? Will people hire you if they knew you learned online and not in an art institution? Are…
Is it true that copying from a photo to the very exact small details is not considered art.
Please correct me if I am wrong in understanding this, as I have been so accustomed (since childhood) to the idea that art is drawing something to its exact likeness. Now that I am older, I honestly find copying to the exact details I see to be too tedious and boring…
I am Neculai Angel Mihail and I have the dream to revolutionize the perception of people about art and it’s meaning …
Many people don’t enjoy making and/or seeing art… that’s not good because art is helping people to express feelings and to communicate.
I want to change the perception about art in that way that anyone would love it and enjoy it…
A painting is worth of thousand words and thoughts… Charcoal on paper with oil and acrylic.
Hello. My name is Anna. I live in small town in Russia. One year ago I understood that I’ve never been really happy. While Looking for answer why I found that every person is born to create using different tool. That’s our natural need. I choose paints and pencil my tools. Now I’m happy but I’ve never learnt how to draw and feel like wondering in the dark. But thanks to drawing academy I found light and know where to go. I like to draw people because it’s the most controversial thing in the world. Nature is true beauty. But people can wake the strangest feelings inside of me that’s I want to transfer to the paper …
Jumping from one profession to another, was a risky move. The risk gets bigger if you have a family to support, or you are already 40. But that’s the case for me. I am in a family of 6; me, my wife, and 4 beautiful kids, from 10 to 1. And already 40! To simply put this into perspective, was an architect/ small-time contractor. Got sick few years back, that force me to change career. Tried design and animation, but going nowhere. So I decided to start painting digitally …
Question from Ray, Drawing Academy graduate My main interest is portrait and figurative work, and in a portrait, I normally draw then paint a three-quarter or seven-eighths size head. I’m currently using pencil measurement, but…
