My Artwork Gallery!

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Art & Me

Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have considered myself an artist. I've been drawing since I can remember, anywhere, anytime. Art allows me to express myself and my ideas in a form that comes easiest to my highly-imaginative brain. I've also dabbled in music and writing, with the former being a medium I'm not super experienced in yet. I enjoy drawing characters and people the most, but on occasion I draw scenery as well. I gather most of my inspiration from music videos by musicians that I listen to frequently. This can come in the form of the cinematography or animation, the character/costume designs, or just about anything that catches my eye. I try to compile what inspires me with the use of YouTube playlists and Pinterest boards, but I get so lost in my ideas I forget to catalogue it all!


Gallery

A drawing of my own Pokemon Trainer character, Oliver. His pose is referenced from the song 'Lagtrain' by inabakumori. A sketch of my friend's character, Miata. She is doing the classic taunting face known as an 'akkanbe.' A doodle of Mizuki Akiyama from Project Sekai. She is smiling, and her name is written on the left side in Japanese katakana. A sketch of a vocal synthesizer character named Mizuki Zuiga.
A drawing of Nagito Komaeda from Super Danganronpa 2. A sketch of Add from Elsword. His pose is referenced from the music video for 'Golden Number' by Iyowa. A rendered drawing of my friend's own vocal synthesizer character, Terumi Teruterumi. A rendered sketch of Rimi Ushigome from Bandori.
A doodle of Pacifica Northwest from Gravity Falls. A rendered drawing of Springtrap from Five Nights at Freddy's. A drawing of Number Five from The Umbrella Academy. He is holding a briefcase. A drawing of my friend's character, Setsuna Hinata.

All of this art has been from the past year and a half. I like to focus on character expression work, but I'm slowly branching back out to making full-body renders. I'm not the best at drawing clothes, but that's why we practice!


My Journey as an Artist

Making art is one of the most important things to me. Growing up, I would draw at any chance I was given. Sometimes I would even neglect classwork to doodle on the back of my papers or in my notebook (I still got good grades, don't get me wrong!). It wasn't until I got into middle school (2018) where my relationship with my artistic journey saw a major shift. A combination of stress, big life changes, and a significant amount of bullying made me stray away from drawing for a full two and a half years. I found it difficult to pick up my pencil and sketchbook and start drawing. I became incredibly insecure in myself and my abilities as a young artist, and almost considered abandoning art entirely. It wasn't until late 2020 when I would find my motivation again.

I'd gotten into the fanbase of "VOCALOID," a vocal synthesizer program. Every voice available for the program is paired with its own unique design, giving the users of VOCALOID a face to put to the voice. The characters are all unique and sometimes even given their own character lore, inspiring thousands of people across the world to make fan art and even their own spin-off designs. Additionally, although the voices provided on the program are voiced by real singers, they're edited by the developers and sound relatively robotic without any user input. The whole thing was just so... unique, and allowed for a whole new realm of creative output.

I met my current friend group during this time. On a social networking app called Discord, I joined a server dedicated to talking about VOCALOID and other vocal synthesizers. They introduced me to hundreds of songs I hadn't even known existed before. They showed me voices I'd never heard before, some of which I've since fallen in love with. They inspired me to create, even if it looked bad. Because of them, I started to unlearn the shame, guilt, and anxiety I had been holding for the past two years. I let myself make all sorts of art: bad, good, and the "meh..."

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