DrawingAcademy

By Jackie Hogan

I first started to take Art classes about three years ago, and absolutely love it. I prefer to work with oils but I also love to just draw with pencil too. I try to improve how I work with each new painting pushing myself to do better, I get great pleasure each time I complete something new.

This painting is of a good friend who worked for me a few years ago, she is now living in another country and does some modelling, she kindly gave me permission to paint her from one of her modelling photos.

By Sonia Shah

Hey this is Sonia. I love doing art work and I’m the art lover. I’m doing it since child hood (though I’m not that old; I have come to next stage the teenage one long way to go) have not learnt the art specifically as a field. But as a hobby I have I do it. Have collection of the stuff because I wish to have my record to be noted. The painting or sketches I do I quote them too… Often they are like my diaries expressing the stuff. A great way to get a relieve; tour thoughts coming out as a creation.

By Anita Nash

I have enjoyed drawing and painting for the last 20 years or so. I did a one year course in art and design after I left secondary school, which to be honest did not teach me very much.

I then went to art college and studied sculpture and combined media for 2 years. Honestly, the art college I attended was a bit of a joke. There was absolutely no technical training, it was all conceptual based. They wanted you to use video, sound and performance art, which I found very disheartening.

At present I am a lone parent at home raising my two children, and drawing and painting whenever I get the chance. I would love to receive a Drawing Academy placement, as I really would love to develop better drawing skills and pursue my dream to become a successful working artist. I would be ecstatic if I was chosen to receive a free Drawing Academy place…

By Scott Rymill-Butcher

Hello to everyone,

My name is Scott, I have been dreaming of becoming a fine artist since I can remember sitting at the kitchen table drawing cartoon characters and copying pictures form my nanas calendars. The years have passed and I’m still not close to my dream. Like everyone work and life has gotten in the way. I have recently had a change in my life, and having to consider options to new career possibilities. But much like everything leading up till now, all I think about everyday is wanting to become the fine artist I see myself to be, drawing, painting and creating everyday wanting to submerge my whole self into art. Hoping to support my family though what I love and wish to achieve. I have come to realise that some time is needed on the foundation, in becoming a fine artist. And what better place to start, than back to the building blocks of every great fine artist has.

“My journey starts here”….

By Camilo Rodriguez

Hey guys I am a South American artist who moved in Australia two years ago, always I have been a self learning person, I love religious and classic art so my style absorbs lots of elements from it, that I like to mix them with contemporary stuff. I have been studying the human figure and classic portrait, although there is a lot of websites and online teachers, I found the Drawing Academy the perfect site in where for sure I will enhance my drawing skills, and acquire all the techniques that the old masters used. Since I got to this country I have been searching for schools where to study drawing and painting but none of them teach the classic techniques, so I ended up studying Illustration mostly for learning digital and for understanding how the industry works. I am convinced that if I do this course I will take my art and my style into a higher level…

By Otto Wientjes

I am 63 and a paint still-lives. I can find the right colors in oil and acrylic, however my drawing skill need improvement. Please vote for me.
Otto

By Supri Wahyu

Well, my name is Supri. I live in a village in Indonesia. I am now 18 years old. When I was a kid I really loved drawing; and I still love it. In my region being an artist is not good because artists are poor. But it’s different for me now because when I found this site it’s changed my mind, changed what I feel about art, about seeing art. I want to be an artist. Sorry about my bad English.
Supri Wahyu Edi Nugroho