SOPHIA

Being an artist is important to the world or society because you can show your creations and talent to the world and show people your interest and people can enjoy it. What inspired me to become an artist is when i saw my friends drawing a long time ago i felt like i wanted to make artworks like that to impress people and just wanted to be an artist. I started by looking at my friends' artwork and learned from her and then I started to learn more advanced art like from social media.

My favorite medium is graphite pencil because i like drawing with just a pencil because i like challenging my hand strength and what i can do with just one thing and with a graphite pencil you can add details very well. My art style is mostly just an animated kind of style and I mostly use dark colors and really like shading my artwork. I developed this artstyle by looking at all kinds of art styles and kind of mixing all of them together to get a whole different artstyle with a bit of everything.(I didn't not copy any artstyle!!). I choose what I draw by thinking of a topic and finding things that connect to the topic, then use my imagination, and then put it together and that will get me to a final decision of what to do. When faced with making creative decisions I just try to block out everything else like the people around me and sounds, and just think of something that is related to what I'm doing, by looking around at the colors and shapes. When I make mistakes I feel kind of sad but then I think that making mistakes is good because you can learn from them. I try again and again, because I deal with it by trying again because I learned something from a past mistake. How i manage my time when i have a deadline is by focusing on the important details and try not to rush but still focus a lot so i can get done with my work faster that way. I know when an artwork is finished when I have all the requirements I need there and when I feel like it's good and I'm proud of the artwork. Right now what I'm struggling with as an artist is like my speed, I kind of sometimes take too long to do an artwork and I need to work on that. My biggest challenge of being an artist is what others expect of me and if I am able to reach that expectation. Two goals that I have as an artist is to improve my shading and make more realistic art because i like shedding a lot and I want to improve in it and I like realistic drawing. What I'm doing to make sure I continue to grow as an artist is to draw frequently to not forget my skills and to improve and use my imagination a lot. Yes I probably want to do visual art professionally because I might change my mind in the future and have another dream but right now I like drawing a lot and I think I'm pretty good at drawing so for now I'm going to use my skills. Art is very calming too, i might be a dancer or musician.

An advice I would give to someone who just started making art is to just trust your imagination and put all your ideas on the paper, and try to push yourself to your limit so you can improve.