Reflections

Artwork by Theja Rhitso
I discovered my love for art at a very young age and has been drawing and sketching regularly since then. It has helped me to be more conscious and understanding of my surroundings.

I discovered my love for art at a very young age and has been drawing and sketching regularly since then. It has helped me to be more conscious and understanding of my surroundings.
I am a humble artist from Brazil, I like to draw comics, cartoons, happy and colorful stuff, and I love oil painting! I just like to make the world a beautiful place, one painting at a time. Art is a way to tell something to the world through my eyes, a way to say “Hey, this is how I this thing would look if it had more colors!”. I just love art, man.
I am a self-taught artist even though I taught art in the High School for a number of years. I was just told guess what you are the Art teacher now!
My name is Christopher Pam I am from Nigeria. Ever since I was six I began to pick up my pencil to draw. That was when art first called me. Art is my life it’s everything to me and I want to be great at it.
I believe I have potential and that the Drawing Academy can unleash the artistic genius in me, with the classical techniques of the great old masters.

My name is Ute and I am from Germany. I have been drawing and photographing for a long time now, on and off. I also trained as a kind of camera and editing assistant for TV and played around with 3D-Programs a bit.
But I am seriously lacking in life drawing skills and everything concerning colored work. I never had real training in drawing or painting, just some books and youtube over the last years. Everything I did so far was using photographs and grids. But this reaches its limits pretty soon.
I would like to study the underlying theory of sizing, anatomy, painting techniques, brushwork and so on, the basics. I then can maybe start to develop my own style instead of just trying to copy photographs.
Hi,
I am Atul Patel. I like games, making something new and different artworks. I love to make paintings.

My name is Wassim. I’ve been drawing and painting since I was a kid. During that time I’ve learnt some techniques but I was not really developing my skills as I was not learning art the correct way.
I am Bharoto, I am very happy to paint and draw … but all I can do is study alone without an art school. Oh yes, I’m from Indonesia, I know all of them.
I live in beautiful countryside, there are so many inspirations that I can take here that affect my type of work.

My name is Mark. I am a 56–year-old professional counselor and fiction writer. I grew up believing I would fail at anything significant I tried. In my mid-forties, the error of this belief, and the cost it exacted, became clear. I determined to overcome some of my limitations. I finished my undergraduate degree in creative writing, I finished my Masters in professional counseling, I completed a 10-year long novel writing project and I began to learn how to learn.