I have found that my reason for creating the artwork that I do is mostly based on what I feel like doing when I decide what to do. I want to be a fashion designer, so I hint at that interest in some of my pieces. I am intrigued by the figure and organic subjects, which is why I have done many pieces involving the figure. My work has no significant meaning to me, and I do not focus on telling a story or evoking a feeling with my artwork. Instead, I simply depict a moment frozen in time, and attempt to make my pieces as realistic as possible.

     My artwork takes complex subjects and emphasizes their complexity. I feel like having a person or a living object in your piece creates life and warmth, unlike a static composition would do. Having a figure as a subject allows the subject to tell its own story of who or what it is.  I examine the tiny details of subjects that are often overlooked. Without these tiny details, the less realistic a piece would look. My artwork displays how every little detail is necessary and cannot be left out in order to create a realistic piece of artwork. Last year, I was able to experiment with a lot of different materials and explore what materials I was able to work better with. This year, I have had more freedom to combine last year’s discoveries with the materials and methods I prefer to create my work with. In the future I plan to focus more on subject choice and use my favorite mediums to address more realistic subjects.

     My primary goal is to display to my viewer the complexity of figures that are often overlooked as a whole. By emphasizing each specific detail of my subject, I want people to look at my artwork and be enlightened by all the tiny little details in a piece. Viewers are forced to observe the complexity of the subject and to understand how all the small details are necessary to work together to create such a realistic and breathing composition. I seek to bring life to inanimate objects when I have to draw a still life, and I do that by ensuring that every little detail is present in my composition. In the future, I hope to bring those details into more drawings of figures and other natural subjects.
     My artwork does not voice any particular feeling or mood. I draw what I see as precisely as possible to create a photorealistic effect. I have found that I enjoy drawing human forms with charcoal because I can be very precise with small details but also create movement and depth with blending and smudging the charcoal. I am intrigued by how when you draw something very realistically, the piece’s realism creates its own character and mood with that particular moment in time. I am excited to continue drawing with life-like techniques, and maybe I will eventually develop my own personal style that allows realism to evoke even deeper meanings for the viewer. I want to be a fashion designer, so I also plan to do much more with experimenting with different fabrics and unconventional materials. I want to bring a realistic effect into my fashion sketches to help develop my personal sketching style as well.