Art Competition Archive

Artwork by Seth Bland

Hello! My name is Seth.

It took me a while to figure out what I really wanted to pursue in life as far as a career choice. I discovered I loved to draw and paint and create characters and stories with my pictures.

While I was in grade school, I did not take my love for these things seriously because I had no idea this could actually be a career so it was more of a hobby. Only a couple years ago did I finally decide I wanted to get into illustration and/ or visual development for games and movies.

Over the last couple years I have taken a few fundamentals drawing and design courses, however not nearly as many as I would like. Aside from that, I have watched a ton of you-tube drawing/painting tutorials and bought gumroad tutorials and a couple dozen anatomy, painting, and how-to-draw books to gain the knowledge I have …

Artwork by Kirsty Semple

I was never very good at art when I was growing up and this is a fact that I always found painful. Something in me needed to be able to draw. So after I finished education I started to teach myself from books and on the internet.

This piece that I have submitted is a portrait of my great nephew…

Artwork by Achmad Dardiri

Our Body is a nest, pregnant body is a perfect nest…

Artwork by Sabina Popovici Hantu

I began to draw two years ago. It was a big idea because I found myself after a very long and hard way.

I am a self taught trying to learn from internet and a lot of books.

Finding Drawing Academy was a big wow for me. You offer a knowledge I could learn from a master. Learning about perspective, human body, figure, human anatomy, drawing from life, from your professional artists would be a big opportunity for me develop my drawing skills and to use them painting too…

Is the world one big white ball and everyone lives in their own vision of their world? Were the past present and the future ever here? …

Painting by Edwin IJpeij

This study after Raphael Sanzio is performed accordingly the techniques of the old masters. After finishing the grisaille it is over-painted in semi transparent layers using the original pigments (I am an artist and chemist ;-)). Size: 26×30 cm on marouflage…

I am a self-taught artist and have lot of interest in learning more & more about art.

Here is the artwork I have done in watercolor…