Story and drawing by Andi Dimayuga
Black and White Artist
I am a self-taught artist. I started to appreciate and make art at an early age. But I was using crayons and oil pastel then…
Art Competition Archive
Portrait drawing by Peter Bex
The art of life drawing, the life of drawing
I’m an artist and an art director living in Chicago. I’ve been drawing since being a little boy in upstate NY, and an AD for 30 years.
I draw because I love it and it was a gift given to me by my father’s side of the family. I’ve always been good at it…
Artwork by Sharaah Aquino
Lost in Myself
My name is Sharaah, I’m 16 years old, I’m an artist and I wanna learn more about figure drawing.
For my whole life, art has been my path in life. I’ve always been a creative person and I love to see the beauty in things. A couple years ago I went through difficult times and I started drawing as a way of healing. I see art as a way of understanding things better, a way of seeing things in a beautiful light…
Story from Diane Stolz
Foundation Drawing Art I grew up in NYC with composer parents and artsy grandmother. Art has always been a hallmark of my existence along with the piano and great composers. The two have a significant part in my life! My sister took the subway into NYC from Forest Hills to study art at the Art Students League when she was…
Artwork by Alevtina Caravona
Star Seed Fairy
My name is Alevtina, I born in Ukrraine, grow up in Moscow. Last 15 years I being leaving in London. I come from modelling background & that’s why I choose to do fashion education.
I graduated from Istituto Marangoni with Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Styling. I always admire art & studied history of arts, attended many arts events, but funny enough I never try to draw until last November…
Drawing by Ayşe Zişan
Because I’m a Dreamer!
I’m 19 years old and I wanna be an architect so art is my life…
Sketch by Adriana
A traveling day in Germany
I draw as long as I can remember. The pages of my diary in High school ware full of sketches…
Artwork by Mark Rhodes
Learning better techniques produces better art work
I am 58 years of age and have always envied people who could draw. I have always maintained that I cannot draw, but in 2011 I began to give it a go. Most of my initial drawings were in graphite and looking back at them not too pleasing but were showing signs of improving, it is only in the past year or so that I have experimented with other media such as watercolour, coloured pencils, ink and pastels…
Flower artwork from Joana
Emotion flower
I am Joan Bliudytė from Lithuania. A few years ago I took a local art school course and since use the gained knowledge to create my artworks.
I like drawing and sketching. Despite I was taught how to paint, my preferred medium is graphite pencil…
Story from Heather MacGillivray
I Want To Tell Visual Narrative Stories That Move Someone To Say “I Get That!”
Art, especially visual art, has always ‘been there’ for me … but life got in the way a lot of the time and I neglected art for decades. I was even told by an art teacher, when I was young, that “you don’t need teaching, you just need to be left alone!” because I had an intuitive feel for some aspects of art. For example I seemed to be able to pick up on and convey the mood of the model in life drawing classes and I was not bad at composition … but I knew I had severe weaknesses in other areas of art, but was too immature to do other than to keep on lazily returning to my strengths…