My name is Tayabah, and I am someone who is discovering the world of art through drawing and painting. I did not grow up as a trained artist, but over time I realised that creating art gives me a sense of peace, focus, and purpose. It allows me to express emotions and experiences that are difficult to explain with words alone.
I found myself compelled to begin a new chapter of my life at an age when many have already found stability. Professionally, I am far removed from the world of art—the power of a simple pencil allowed me to draft, not to draw—yet my heart has always belonged to classical aesthetics. During this transitional period, I turned to art to find a sense of home within myself.
I have been on the road most of my life, having lived in 6 different places, including Germany, and Washington DC, in 16 years. Growing up I had to learn how to adjust to my surroundings and I needed a coping mechanism. For me that was art.
I am a self-taught beginner artist who started this journey in January 2023. Since then, I have focused exclusively on graphite drawing. For me, art is about the challenge of capturing reality with just a pencil and paper. It has become a daily commitment—a way to test my patience and my ability to see the world clearly. Even though learning on my own is difficult, I haven’t given up because I am determined to master the fundamentals of drawing.
My name is Andrew Marcus and this is the story of my passion in my golden years. I had worked in health care and with my retirement I needed something to occupy my mind. After taking some local art classes I fell in love with art both viewing it and creating original art.
I researched many drawing courses on the Internet and found that the Drawing Academy will satisfy my needs because I can study when time permits and have full support from the Academy tutors. What I need is someone with knowledge and experience to guide me thorough drawing topics and check my artworks to tell what to improve and how.
Drawing Academy represents discipline, rigour, and true artistic education. Its commitment to classical foundations and serious learning aligns deeply with my desire to understand drawing honestly and thoroughly. Winning this scholarship would be transformative. It would provide the training I have never had and allow me to connect personal healing through art with my professional commitment to creative health, ultimately supporting the wellbeing of patients, carers, and communities.
I think Drawing Academy is a solid platform you can learn some foundation classes which is can help me achieve my goals. In my opinion people who vote for me because they inspired my story and like my drawings types.
I love drawing, but recently, after watching this video https://lifedrawing.academy/life-drawing-academy-news/how-to-self-assess-your-drawing-skills I realised that my skills are not as good as I thought. I lack many skills, for example how to measure proportions from life, how to construct objects from any angle and eye level, how to put objects in relation to one another. I also find it difficult to foreshorten in extreme angles. What I also want to learn is how to apply light and shadow.
When I discovered the Drawing Academy I was so excited to learn that there is a school that offers classical art skills to enable anyone to understand art in its fullest form. I have completed the free drawing videos and desire to do the complete art course. I think it is the best school available thus far to my knowledge. I made small paintings of birds to sell to be able to afford the lifetime art course, however the paintings have not yet been sold.
