Whether you are listening to your Calculus teacher drone on while you doodle in your notebook, or whether you do commissions and get paid for your art � art is an expression of your creative self and it is available to everyone.
Art has been in my life for as long as I remember. I remember a program called �Art Vistas� in elementary school that taught me about various art styles and some famous paintings. Each lesson had an associated hands-on project and we dabbled with sketching, acrylic-on-canvas, and clay sculpting. What I realized through this program was that I was relatively good at copying art and could effortlessly create good replicas. But, I never felt like I owned the artwork or could show it to people. Basically, it felt like plagiarism.
Whenever I tried to create my own characters, they always came out differently on paper from what I had imagined in my mind. So I started my journey to discover my very own �art style.�
My first drawings were pencil drawings done with simple block shading. But, these got boring after a while. I tried working with colored pencils, but I always felt that I never had the right color for what I wanted and everything seemed to be slightly off. Most artists who use colored pencils have hundreds of pencils, but I did not feel that buying all those supplies would provide the experience that I was craving.
Art has been in my life for as long as I remember. I remember a program called �Art Vistas� in elementary school that taught me about various art styles and some famous paintings. Each lesson had an associated hands-on project and we dabbled with sketching, acrylic-on-canvas, and clay sculpting. What I realized through this program was that I was relatively good at copying art and could effortlessly create good replicas. But, I never felt like I owned the artwork or could show it to people. Basically, it felt like plagiarism.
Whenever I tried to create my own characters, they always came out differently on paper from what I had imagined in my mind. So I started my journey to discover my very own �art style.�
My first drawings were pencil drawings done with simple block shading. But, these got boring after a while. I tried working with colored pencils, but I always felt that I never had the right color for what I wanted and everything seemed to be slightly off. Most artists who use colored pencils have hundreds of pencils, but I did not feel that buying all those supplies would provide the experience that I was craving.