Can an artist succeed without academic training? Yes, I have! I consider myself a successfully self-taught artist. Not many people believe that you can teach yourself to do amazing things. Hello, my name is Paulette, and I didn’t like that name in high school. No one could remember it.
I’m drawing from my childhood and it’s one of best things that gives me peace, from a long time I noticed that my art skills are not improving the way I’m practicing and not gave me good results. I was facing a lot difficulty in drawing figures and portraits accurately.
I am Laiba.
I have been making art from my childhood and art is very important to me it is the part of my life I spend 5-6 hrs in art.
Art is my life. I am currently about to start at the Angel Academy in Florence.
I like art; semi self taught, but mostly gifted into this place of creativity. I continue to evolve my art, now studying constructive drawing on my own. I want to become a self-sufficient fine artist who could sell art for living. Despite I spent a lot of time working on drawing, taking some drawing classes in high school, I feel that my art skills are poor. My teachers helped me to build a portfolio to get into university but I was going through a lot of issues and didn’t want to waste time by going off to college.
Hello, I am Wyjif. Well, that’s not my real name, but for convenience’s sake, that I what I want to be known as. I am an aspiring cartoonist, wannabe illustrator, and dreamer.
I lack basic skills, that is why I enrolled in the Drawing Academy course. In this course, there is so much information for a beginner like me to absorb. I watch Drawing Academy video lessons again and again to take in all that this course teaches. I still need a great deal of practice.
I’m so happy to have the Drawing Academy membership along with Life Drawing Academy and Anatomy Master Class to learn from. They are amazing resources and definitely helped prepare me for the workshop in Scottsdale and any open studio that I attend here in Tucson.
Thank you!
Lois
I drew this from life. This drawing opened up a whole new level of understanding of contours, rendering, measuring techniques, perspective (particularly ellipses) for me. Whether it’s a simple sketch, indicating where the light is coming from and contours with simple hatching or revealing the full tonal values or rendering details, all seem to be fun and interesting!
To start off I would love to say how art has shown me romance, love and patients. Not only did I find my best friend and fiancé through creating and selling art, I also learned how to dive deep within different techniques of painting on wood or canvas to create something beautiful for people to love.
