Art Competition Archive

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 Love of 53 years

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...

A Second Chance

Hello fellow students!

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...

My Dream

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...

There, Back, Again! An Obsession, a Life Passion

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...

João Wesmaldu

I found Drawing Academy on YouTube, and realized that this course has exactly what I need to learn. I want so much to begin it now and develop my drawing skills...

Men's best friend

Hello! This is my artwork and I want to tell about myself.

I love drawing very much. I'm drawing when I have free time in my notebooks and everywhere I can.

I think drawing is a good way for self-expression and to show other peoples what I think.

For me, drawing is more than art; this is my hobby. My skills are not very good and I don;t have much time for it. However, I have many original ideas to express in art and want to improve my drawing skills.

I want to bring my drawing skills on a new level. I want to learn how to draw what is on my mind, to learn techniques of drawing, shading methods, how to draw portraits, architecture, and all that need to know to be a good artist.

I think that Drawing Academy is a good place to learn all about art and become a better artist...

Art is a reflection of life

I present most of my ideas in various Media. As an interdisciplinary artist, I have a critical viewpoint upon my surroundings and may take different issues into consideration; however, there is a close connection between image, imagination, signs, language, philosophy, and society.

I can investigate my personal ideas and ideologies in the milieu through art. Art is a reflection of life, culture of the community, and my ambitions. I might manipulate the position of some elements or diminish their apparent simplicity but I am always influenced by the environment and I endeavor to refer to social points which may be strange and also interesting for the people in other parts of the world. I always try to have creativity by the manipulation of perceptible facts surrounding me...

The Edge

My name is NiKole, and I am a busy mom to five kids. I love the outdoors, and I love to see new things and then drawing or painting them.

I love art. I have found that it is such a fabulous way to de-stress, and I love when my kids get involved and join in.

I have learned that as a mom who doesn't have large chunks at a time to paint, pan watercolors and pencil are the perfect medium. I love seeing a beautifully lit scene and trying to capture it.

I have two challenges in art - the first is time management and making sure that I keep up with drawing consistently and not letting other things get in the way, and the other is my own perfectionism. Too often, a good idea stays in my head because I am afraid I won't be able to get it on the paper the way I want...