I’m a shy girl who loves to get lost in sketching and art always played a big role in my life as it filled a hole in my life as well as save me from somethings that would have destroyed me.
The challenges I have in art are the images I want to draw don’t come out the way I want them to. What I want to learn is how to draw from imagination better and know how to better put everything together…
My name is Nicholas Beck, I’m 19 years old, and I’m studying studio art at a liberal arts college. My involvement with art seems to have gone on in waves, first taking a bold hold of my time before gradually dropping away, and then suddenly launching back into my life; it’s something I don’t always notice is missing until I start doing it again. From an early age, art has always coincided with some writing, and I find that much of what I do on my own time (outside the classroom) was always been connected to something written…
Received College diploma in Art. Aspiring Drawing Academy student with a life long interest in Art, but wants to (re)learn the fundamentals of drawing. I have been lurking through this website for quite some time, and have been very impressed with what I have seen on here. If selected for membership, I hope to take full advantage of what the academy has to offer…
I am a u.k. cased artist originally from the North, I am a musician sculptor writer and poet too, I love to draw and the Academy has been a source on art.
I am self taught so I revel in minor discoveries I make during my expressions of feelings and dilemmas, for example, here is an improvisation in breeze block, a progress which makes each moment a joy and a struggle, i am close to mastering technique and feel I am able to apply my imagination to my work soon…
Hi, my name’s Sophie and I’m 15 years old.
I’ve never had art lessons and am completely self taught. Art takes up quite a big part of my life. I currently do GCSE art in school and get a tonne of coursework so I don’t have much time to draw freely. Although when I do have time to draw I like to enter competitions, doodle in my sketchbook and stalk artists on instagram:).
One of the biggest challenges I face in art is originality. I constantly have to be looking up references online to get a drawing done and I have never made an original piece (all of my work has used photo references). I would love to try surrealism but as of now I know that would never work as I’d be looking for references for days before I find something suitable…
I am Marianna Vad from Hungary. I am 32 years old and I have always interested in art.
I love to write poems both in English and in Hungarian and I love to draw. However, I should learn a lot to do it professionally, which is my dream. Besides writing and drawing, I like manipulating pictures on my computer because with this tool I can create a lot of interesting things. But, not long ago, I realized that I could only deliver my thoughts and feelings in the best way if I knew each and every technique in connection with drawing…
My name is Dick Vander Meulen, 73 years old, and live in South Carolina. I am an architect by trade but because of the economy have not done any design work for the last five years.
I have not had the opportunity of a formal education in art or architecture but have learned a lot from books and some private architecture courses but no art courses. I have always enjoyed art even as a child. I remember drawing street maps in the third grade and as early as the 5th grade was drawing horses and dogs.
Over the years I have done a variety of sketches but most of my time has been spent in architecture designing houses and commercial structures. I simply have not had the time to do artwork…
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My name is Apoena, I’m a 26 years old Brazilian and an airplane mechanic by profession.
As a child, I learned to draw by myself (at a child’s level, of course, but still pretty impressively considering my social background) and used to be a creative and motivated student. My family and friends used to cheer me up, I would draw my favorite cartoon characters, expend hours browsing art books in the school’s library and absolutely disgracing the house’s furnishings with failed attempts at painting.
In my teenage I would draw in the spare minutes between classes, in the back-cover of my notebooks using ball-pens and any colored pencil I had left. In time those notebooks were so full with drawings that I would simply give them away for friends who liked them. Not being able to have a proper education on arts, I would stare at people and try to draw them, looking with bitter jealousy at the old masters for having managed to become legends in a time where internet and art-books were not available and, poor me, couldn’t draw an apple realistically…
Hello my name is Sara Baca, I am 24 years old currently living in Colorado, USA. Art has always been amazing to me as an emotional outlet and form of self expression. Growing up I wanted to do art as a profession but was discouraged by others who view art as unimportant or as a useless field of study.
Drawing Academy seems right for me because I greatly admire the old masters and classical art not only because they have formed the foundations of todays art but were also a great part of human history. Looking at a classical piece I cannot help but be envious of the incredible level of skill and how hard the artist must have worked to achieve it…
I’m originally from Italy, a country that has some of the most amazing Art and Architecture in the world.
Growing up I was so affected by what was surrounding me, that I could not imagine living and breathing without Art. I wanted to be an artist since I was 4 years old. Alas! Life took me on a spin. In 1999 I moved to the States, completed High School and prepared for a career in medicine in college. It wasn’t too long before I realized it wasn’t for me.
I switched my major to Pre-medical illustration, wanting to learn to draw as realistically as I could. It wasn’t too long that I realized that colleges do not teach you the way of the Masters. I was pushed to experimentation and to abstract the world, to make “conceptual” art that was temporary and decaying. Although I enjoyed doing some of it, it did not satisfy my need to wish to learn to paint like the Masters I grew up with… Caravaggio, Giotto, il Tiziano (Titian) just to name a few…
