DrawingAcademy

A stubborn potential artist needs your vote!!

June 24, 2015September 29, 2018

Artwork by Julio

I never received any artistic training not even practiced on my own until September last year. I always enjoyed art but I never considered myself with enough “talent” to give it a try.

Just out of curiosity I looked into several links in internet and some books and I frequently saw the same agreement, drawing is just another skill that can be learnt. Knowing myself I might not be “talented” but surely I am stubborn enough to learn anything if it requires passion and practice and I have plenty of those..

Also since I started I noticed how drawing is now really important to me. When I draw I loose completely the sense of time and I am not able to explain clearly how does it make me feel. I guess is one of those things you need to experiment yourself to have a clear understanding of what I mean. So I also take the opportunity to invite you to give it a try. You can not be worse of what I thought of myself when I started…

June 24, 2015November 7, 2025

Artwork by Irina Howard

I have always believed that when somebody speaks from their heart, it will touch the hearts of others. Art has always been a meaningful and excited passion of mine through life. It is how I see the world and express my own. It changed my life; it brought more meaning, motivation, and excitement than anything else did.

Making art to me is a very deep process, personal discovery, and development. I would compare myself to a stranger who travels through life, looking for a dreamland. While traveling, struggles a lot, goes through hardships, losses, needs, but in the end finds something inside which gives strength, love, and hope, and leads to a land where you may have peace and joy.

My goal is to bring more hope and inspiration into this world; to increase a person’s value and add to their significance, and to make the world a better place to live in. It would be the biggest reward and the greatest inspiration to see this actually happen. I believe if you are willing to put your heart and effort into something, you will reach your stars…

Ricardo Basilio – Artist

June 22, 2015September 29, 2018

Artwork by Ricardo Basilio

I’m drawing since I was a child. I remember my father bringing some papers and pencils from the office and, for me, that was the best present. Some years later, I had the happiness to find two excellent teachers: Geraldo Aguiar and Renato Alarcão.

Watercolours and Dry pastel are my favorite techniques and, when I see the members are presenting here, I think this is one more place to consider as a school…

Fish is turning into plastic. Are we?

June 22, 2015September 29, 2018

Artwork by Sanjana Malik

I love nature, animals and oceans. As we know, oceans are being polluted by tons of plastic and then animals like fish, sea turtles either gets entangled or consume the plastic. Similarly, I show how fish are being affected by plastic in my art. I used pieces of plastic to cover half of fish body to depict that it’s transforming into plastic. So I just want to create awareness about plastic in the ocean through my art…

Artwork by Dan S., Drawing Academy student

Lady from Venice

June 22, 2015January 10, 2018

Artwork by Dan S., Drawing Academy student

Portrait of a lady with a scarf from life. This was drawn in graphite HB pencil. The hair was darkened with graphite powder and detailed with an 8B pencil. The model is my wife in a 3/4 pose. The scarf is from Venice Italy. Initially, the scarf was shadowed on the white background and the detail was erased in with a kneaded eraser and pen-held rubber eraser…

June 22, 2015November 7, 2025

Artwork by Armand de Bruyn

Drawing has been the love of my life i guess, since my early school days i have had a love for sketching, my very first sketches were of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and i would practice getting each one of them correctly. From there a never ending passion for art grew which to this day 30 years later has not left me. I have never really had the chance to make a career out of art but i would love to one day be able to be professional enough to regard my work as viable for career use…

Still-Life in Charcoal

June 19, 2015January 10, 2018

Artwork by Dan S., Drawing Academy student

This is a still-Life that represents the geometric nature of common objects in perspective. It is an attempt to use cubes, ovals, spheres, and other basic shapes to produce realistic objects in combination and in physical relation to each other. These are arranged on a background drapery that provides additional depth as the object recede into space…

June 18, 2015November 7, 2025

Artwork by Mauricio Calderon

Hi everyone, my name is Mauricio Calderon. I’m currently working as animator and compositor, but my real dream is to live painting and earn money doing my art. I’m 35 years old and it’s time to make my dreams something real.

For someone like me, who is working, married and far away from U.S.A and Europe, it is a very good place to learn.

I want to win the Drawing Academy course because I need to improve my drawing skills…

June 18, 2015November 7, 2025
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Artwork by Tanishka Bhadauria

I am Tanishka Bhadauria. I’m 16 years old and I love to draw. I love colours and art. Art makes me feel alive, and to me it is the best way to express my feelings.

I love Drawing Academy!

I want to win this course because art is my life! And I want to be a perfectionist. I want to be better than what I am, I want to grow…

Seeing the bigger picture

June 17, 2015September 26, 2018

Question from Daniel, Drawing Academy student Hi, I’m a huge manga, anime and fantasy fan and that’s mostly how I like to draw. What are your thoughts towards this style of drawing combined with this…