tecumseh
Being an artist is important to me because being an artist is being free to create anything. And to me that is a sense of freedom because of how free people can think. I also see artist as important to their community because they inspire, and they speak their minds about what happens in the world.
What inspired me to become an artist was my imagination and the feeling of wanting to share my imagination. At 9 years old I made my own business with my art work. It was called paper people where I would make anyone from fiction cut them out and give them to kids to play with on the floor. The business really worked well because I was able to make some money like 40 dollars. So in some ways I inspire myself to be an artist. But i haven't really sold any in a little while but i'm going to start again this summer, hopefully. Normally I would say that my favorite medium is pencil but sometimes i'll make digital art and print it out. If i had a favorite, it'd be normal pencil as it's what i started off with and i cant get away from the first thing i started with after all. The first ones are always better in my opinion. At least I like sticking with what I started off with. My art style would be like an anime cartoon or cookie run kingdom as I really like the style. Still to this day, I am taken back by anime artwork. Other times I'm dazzled by roblox animation. I developed my art style basically after I found out I could make fan art.
Normally I choose what I want to draw based on the first thing coming to mind either it being what I did a few minutes ago or what I did as a child or the things I like now. Basically, I just do whatever because I don't have a good art thinking process. When faced with making creative decisions i normally just go all in. I try everything in the book and see which looks best or which takes me a long while (if you want confirmation it's approximately 2 hours). When I make mistakes in my art, I just erase it. If i don't have an eraser i visibly start to panic and i have to start over which if i'm being honest I hate. That’s why I only draw with pencils because I'm scared of the pain I would go through if I didn't use a pencil. How I stay on task is very easy. I just put my whole mind on what I'm doing. I listen to calm lofi music and center my mind on one thing. After I've centered my mind, I put on any music I like. I know my art is finished when I decide it’s finished. I try to make my art to the best of my ability but I do intend to finish early after all. Even though I'm a child, I have a very busy schedule that I HAVE to follow.
I’m struggling with drawing the anime art style. I really want to do that kind of style. To continue to get better i have to continue to work and go slow. It’s something I’m going to be working on in the summer. Sometimes I’ll try art that i'm not used to which my parents have been telling me to do. Oh what you thought i was going to be in the summer like “oh it’s such a sunny day outside but I’m too tired to go outside, I want to do video games and lay down on the couch.” Well no. I want to stay smart for 7th grade.
The biggest challenge of being an artist is having other people like your art because some people can hate on it. That’s the reason why most artists have quit showing their art or just stop doing art completely. For me, my biggest challenge is trying to publish my art. Two goals, I have as an artist is to publish my art and make my own set of comics and maybe make it into a show and publish it on like crunchyroll or netflix. An advice for new artists is to use any app you can try with and find books in real life to learn how to make good art.
