About me
Chapter One
When I was from an early age,I was always fascinated with the imaginary world.Drawing was a huge part of my childhood.I remember my father had a projector in which you place a picture and with some light and mirrors you could project the picture anywhere you want and from that moment I got obsessed with it.I was drawing any picture I could find all day.I even draw copies and gave to my classmates in the drawing hour in my school.From there things got more serious in my teens.
Chapter Two
Still using the projector I advanced my drawings to sketches.My inspiration was famous musicians.Michael Jackson,John Lennon.Paul MCcartney these were my first ”attempts” to sketch.No theory or lessons,just me and a pencil.At that point I was just playing with shadows.The lines and propotions where adjusted from the projector so my work was to fill the face with greys.I did not knew back then that I will do portrait or focus on the human face but subconciously the face associated to me with emotion.I am still proud of my early skethes,I do not feel uncomfortable or shame because without them I would be at the level I am now.
My music teacher heard from my classmates that I sketched Michael Jackson and she demanded to see it.Next time in music class I show to her the sketch and see was amazed (too much I think).To my surprise see talked to the school principal and convinced him to exhibit my sketches on a wall in the school’s entrance.Shame,pride,excitement were some of my feelings when she announced me the news.So my sketches for the first time had an audience.
Chapter Three
Of course I was really nervous of the reactions,most of them were surficed level complements,others didn’t knew the people in the drawings and some made fun of my mistakes.Overall I didn’t pay too much attention to the reactions as I first thought,one thing this event taught me was that I had to improve.So all the summer I was locked in my room and sketched every face I wanted to sketch.Yeah I sketched a little too much of Slipknot not gonna lie,it was the time I got into their music but their masks challenged me to sketch them.It was enevitable.I was really exhausted and frustrated but I drew all 9 of them and after that I needed a break.Which I never took.
Chapter Four
Time passed,luckily this “thing” got some attention on the social media an I started to take custom jobs from various people.That was the time I started to think of it more seriously but I never wanted it to be my job.To my mind job=routine/obligation and sketch was not that.So I kept it more as a hobby and continued to explore.
Practise may bring unsatisfing results when not put to focus.There was a period before my 20s where I did felt a little dissatisfied with my progress.Mixed in with some teenage drama and a break from sketch was indeed the best option.And coming back to sketch after a really long time feels really relaxing.
Chapter Five
So as restart I though to start back to the basic sketches with only blacks and whites.I know this not much.Projector again and my pencils.It gave me confidence still and focus on simplicity.Now in my 20s this was the period of time that I got to Japanese Anime and American Comic books.Huge influence and a lot of ispiration to sketch for more and to move on to the human face once again.I did also watched some videos and learned a few techniques though.Smoothing shadows with a thin paper,some hair techniques and adding more blacks and more whites on my sketches.These little things made huge differences to my surprise.
Chapter Six
Creation and Reference are two different things.That took me a lot of time to understand it.Well we all see pictures even other artworks and we use it to create something of our own but when is this called original? To answer that question I had to sketch a lot of characters from the entairtainment and also learn some theory about drawings,paintings,sketches.I have to admit I really had a lot of fun sketching characters from Anime,Comics,Tv shows,movies,videogames and the list goes on and on.Also to be real I did copied artworks from other people but I always credit the original artist from those sketches.And that has to be a strict rule in the art community.
Chapter Seven
Wow.Congratulations.You reached the end of my story.Well not the end,stories never end,at least my “origin” story has reached the end point.After a copius amount of exploration and practice,buying a sketchbook,see videos on youtube on basic shape and shades,use reference and study the pictures I have to say I was going on the right path.
Yes those four sketches are all me.Lines and shadows.No projector.To me this was my shiftpoint to trully believe in my abilities.As we get older time does get very limited for hobbies,exercises,so as time goes on I do sketch very few than my teenage years.One thing a wise man said to me when I was doing my military duty was “Do not rush doing a sketch,it will tell you when it is done”.That quote was so confusing to me at the beginning but the more thought I put to it this quote really transformed me into a true artistic mind.
Last Chapter
Those two sketches are after the quote of that wise man.To me the evolution of my work is really remarkable but practice never ends.These sketches as “good” as they are they could be better.So that was me,well my story to be more precise.I trully love art as a way of expressing my thoughts and feeling and sketch is something I will do for my time in this planet.Go ahead create and express youself.Show me your Kosmos and I will show you mine.