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Yuri: Become a Diva

Yuri: Become a Diva

By Suria Jimenez Magadan

I’m Suria Jimenez, a graphic designer from conviction but artist by passion, I think drawing was always part of my life, I do it since I was a child. I’m passionate about the details and over time have been perfecting a technique that allowed me to make increasingly drawing more and more detailed. When I “pretend” or do hyperrealism, I am only devote as much time to the drawing I’m doing, which make me very pleased although it has sometimes much harder. Every day I practice to achieve what I really want, the photorealism and each day that passes is never enough to keep learning from the masters…

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Happiness

Happiness

By Naomikaliya

I am a stay-at-home mother and struggling artist. My love for art and my desire to help my family has given me the desire to start drawing professionally. I am a self-taught artist besides a few classes in high school, but that was almost 20 years ago. I need to “learn” to draw again. I could use instruction on tips and techniques to make me the artist I really want to be. I cannot afford regular classes and I know with real help it could boost my confidence and art ability to be able to one of the best artist of my time. The color pencil portrait of Angelina Jolie that I have submitted shows how I currently feel. I am overjoyed with happiness to be able to care for my family and have time to draw! Artist Naomikaliya…

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Young Coal Miner

Young Coal Miner

By Richard Cheng

I started drawing and painting after I retired from my day job. After spending time and money on three courses at drawing at an university extra-mural program, I felt that I have not benefited as much as I deserved – and I have to make a decision. Either I give up drawing altogether, and look for something else to pass my time, or I should forget about learning from these paid teachers and do it on my own. As a result of deciding on self teaching, I purposely chose to learn human portraiture, simply because that I think that that genre of drawing would be the most challenging. I would cut photographs from newspapers and magazines (or any other sources), 5 to 10 pictures a day, and just doodled and copied studiously for a year…

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My dream is to learn to draw and paint like the renaissance masters

My dream is to learn to draw and paint like the renaissance masters

By Luca Molnar

My name is Luca Molnar and I’m a painter from Hungary. I completed my BA studies in Illustration and Graphic Design at the University of Hertfordshire 2 years ago. I was working as an illustrator for 6 years, however about a year ago I decided to leave the advertising world for good and I became a full time painter. I love painting and I know for sure that this is what I would love to do for the rest of my life. I also know that I still have so much to learn! I’ve never really appreciated contemporary art, my heroes are Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Salvador Dali. I have always admired their technique, my dream is to learn to draw and paint like the renaissance masters. I’ve been searching for a good drawing course for quite…

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