Draw your mind
Artwork from SmA
Hi!
I’m a drawing learner, but without a teacher.
Art Competition Archive
Essential Needs
Story and artwork from Vijay Kumar
Hello,
My name is Vijay. I am from India. My artwork is called “Essential needs”
Drawing in the old Russian way
Story and artwork from George Galcsik
Loving arts have always been part of my life. I truly believe, that drawing is the foundation of all visual arts and also is my passion. For more than 20 years I’ve seen so many remarkable and respectful artists’ video tutorials, but the thing is, I never ever drawn a single line. This year is different, I have started to draw intensively and I will work hard to be the artist I always wanted to be.
I love drawing portraits
Artwork from Sandhya
Hi! I’m Sandhya,
I love sketching and drawing portraits. I spend hours doing art and can do it from morning to night.
Drawing by Badriot
Story and artwork from Adrian Lupu
I began drawing two years ago, with nothing in mind other than an occupation that would give me some comfort and relaxation. In time, as my work has become somehow better, I became interested in art in general, other artists and the criteria of this type of activity. I draw once per day, so at the end of the month I have a pretty high number of drawings, and that helps me analyze the results and improve.
Art is no longer my adversary
Story and sketch from Ron W.
Growing up, I always had a bit of an adversarial relationship with art – a combination of cheap art supplies, and a lack of structured instruction made me quickly lose interest in “art classes”, and pushed me to focus on other, more rewarding interests and topics. I, like many others, came to believe that the ability to represent the world around me was a talent that I lacked. About ten years ago, an artist I met finally got it through my thick head that art is a set of skills that can be learned like any other. Since then, I have off-and-on, studied and taught myself, learning that while quality materials do not make you a better artist, DO make the experience of making art more enjoyable, and thus make it more likely to want to continue practicing, learning, and creating art.
Drawing Academy is my dream
Story from Adekola Taiwo
My name is Adekola Taiwo am a visual artist. I make pencil portraits and also digital drawings.
I paint Imagination
Story and artwork from Monetta Damure
The ancient Greeks had a word eidos, which means “form” or “idea.” Eidos, in turn, gave rise to the English word eidetic — referring to a mental image that is unusually vivid and detailed.
Dreams of Mastery
Story and artwork from Zuri Dreamer
Hi, I’m Zuri. And I am a Dreamer.
I am the granddaughter of women whose grandparents were slaves. Both of my grandmothers toiled under abusive husbands in the rough conditions of what we Americans call “the Dirty South”; each feeding a quiver-full of children on withered breasts, educating them despite troubled minds and spirits. I come from a lineage of survivors, practical people who did what they had to. Stern faces and glinting eyes all swearing by the Bible and western principles as the women surreptitiously “laid hands” (as healers) on their community, doling out remedies that transformed every life they touched. My single mother, like many of her generation, lost the magic of non conformist spiritual dialogue and bought completely into the promise of respectability politics, the American Dream and the western standard of worth.
Windows of Life
Story and artwork from Christopher Alaimo
My name is Chris.
I have been a professional musician for most of my life and somehow at 40, I became a sleep tech. At 56, playing instruments is difficult due to my living situation and a dislocated shoulder. So I took up art as a pastime and now it has become an obsession. Music has form and texture, light and shadow if you will.