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I kinda forgot I made this since I lost it in my computer.....

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This is one of the pieces I'm most proud of! It's a commission piece for one of my friends, and I feel like I really outdid any of my previous work. I typically don't use references, but I did for this piece, and the difference is insane! Being able to make things for and give to my friends is something that makes me so happy, so having this opportunity something I will always be grateful for.❤️‍🩹

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This drawing is kind of recent. I was working on my character sketch's. I love this piece a lot because it healed my soul a lot. I was struggling with finding myself and centering myself in the world. As I have not actually played Five nights at Freddys. I have experimented with a lot of the characters as my heart comes out on the paper for any of the fnaf charcters.

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Devin Matuszewski- My Drawing for My Art Class

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Devin Matuszewski- My Drawing for My Art Class

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This is a drawing I made recently that I love! I have been making art for 9 years now, and I could not imagine my life without art!

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Devin Matuszewski Art Contest Submission

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(Didn't add the story before haha)

This piece is one I drew while I was in the middle of a style change. This was one of the first drawings I was actually proud with during that style change! It's also one of my first art pieces that I started playing around with more animalistic designs, since I'm not a person who draws that kind of thing a lot. I really like this drawing since I think it's a great mark for improvement in my art as well as it's a character I absolutely adore. I was introduced to pressure by my brother while I was getting through a break up, and sebastian was a character I loved drawing during that time (and still do!) So this drawing really does just make me happy :)

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for the love of a grandparent by jasmine caine

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for the love of a grandparent by jasmine caine

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I don't have a picture of the painting but its for the young American patriotic art contest. My grandparents are veterans and have done a lot. The painting puts a focus on there platoon numbers from basic training. there is a sunset over a ocean since they where marines. There are 4 stars in the sky for my great grand parents since my grandpas dad was a ww2 vet! I am putting final touches on the painting and then contacting the vfw in my town

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Not an original artwork, but I replicated it. I love this style!

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I fell in love with art when I was very young. My sister is an artist and I had always admired her artwork. Murals, realism, paintings, sketches...All wonderful.

I started drawing at a young age, but I had only found my passion for it in middle school. I had a favorite character I wanted to draw, and I would draw every single night, trying to perfect my artwork. Reference after reference I drew faces and stubby hands until finally I felt confident to create artwork without references. It was not perfect, but I was extremely happy.

I found that I had fallen in love with art of every medium, brush strokes, pencil lines, clay. Art is what keeps me going and I love it deeply.

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Looking back on this piece of art i had made quite a few years ago makes me feel quite silly, it was for a art project. This made me fall in love with art because it pushed me to make better art since I had to use a pretty bad art studio app.

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So I made this digital drawing because I really loved the way that artists depicted figures like angels or other biblical figures. It shows my love for art because I generally love to admire other artists styles or skills and it moves me to keep making art.

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When I as in second grade, we would make all sorts of sill paper dolls and things! but I really fell in love with art after I met a kid named CJ who drew the most amazing cyborgs, and now I make all sorts of stuff! (I'm currently on my PC so I don't have the photos of my art!)

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unfinished but i love this creature i made

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This is an artwork that I love. It was one of my first times using clay on a canvas and I was extremely proud of how it turned out. I loved the process of creating it as well as learning new techniques. I learned how to make an armature, how to sculpt clay on a canvas and how to use a Dremel to sand the piece. This work took me a couple of days to finish and was very rewarding.

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This piece I made around 3 years ago in an art club at my local high school. While I had only been attending the club for a few weeks I was having a lot of fun with the wood burning project we did. I had never done wood burning before and found it super fun. I added in some colors later using watercolor paint and was featured as a piece in the schools art show! I haven't been able to explore wood burning since, but would like to get back into it when I get some more free time.

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This is an art piece I absolutely adore! I created it last year when I took a digital art course. Although it's just a sketch, nothing crazy—this piece actually inspired me to continue my digital art journey and to improve my skills. I've started studying more often, and I'm starting to learn from masters. I wouldn't have gotten this far without this illustration, and I know it sounds crazy, but it illustrates something I'm really passionate about, and I'm so grateful I took that art course to this day. Each day I'm practicing so I can become a professional artist, and I can look back on this sketch and say, "Wow, this was really my beginning."

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This was just one of the many pieces that made me fall in love with art. It looks a bit low effort and simple, perhaps even a little off but I was very proud of it back then.

When I was maybe in 5th-6th grade, I made this on IbisPaint (which is an app I've been using for a little over 7 years). During the time of this art piece, I wasn't all that new to digital art but more new to drawing inanimate objects or nature related things. Around this time, I wanted to try something new such as experimenting with brushes I've been meaning to use but never knew where or how to use them properly as well as to just try my best with whatever my mind came up with. This allowed me to have a better grasp of what the brushes I used were good for. I went into this with no sketches, just an idea formed off of what I liked seeing in nature. After about a month I started to draw a lot more frequently. I now try to share my art with others every now and then even if its not often.

My art has definitely improved since this piece but this reminds me of just one of the reasons I like art since it just goes to show you can make anything with just an idea.

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This is a drawing I did that was the first human drawing I didn't want to throw out. It looks a little crooked because I'm bad at taking pictures of it, but it was one of the first drawings I did in a long time that made me remember how much I loved drawing. I had been dealing with art block so I wasn't drawing much, and when I did, it never turned out how I wanted it. Then I drew this piece which reminded me why I started drawing to begin with. I love it, and plan on painting this at some point.

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Here's to showing how much of a nerd I am!!

This piece is a more random and funny piece I made but I'm still in love with it! This art piece is from a character from Deltarune a game which admittedly I adore. This character is one that really resonates with me on a personal level and the theming of this piece actually goes back a long time!!

So flashback to around 1 year ago exactly (weird coincidence the timing lol) I started a fun little challenge where I took my favorite characters and made them in fruit themed outfits :D! It was one of the pieces I was proud of for SO long! As I was drawing one day the inspiration struck me like a blow to the face 'blueberry' it said XD and well I listened! I am so happy with how it came out I tried something new and the outfit design and the proportions (while not perfect) are pretty good for my standards! The colors felt home-y and cool and it's a piece I still am happy to look at! It's nothing dazzling or deep but it makes me happy.

With my resurgence into art recently my journey has come a long way and I'm happy to report this as a key part in my timeline as an artists. Sometimes its hard to appreciate my own work... it was really hard to pick any piece to share today but I'm so happy to show you all the TV Star dressed as a blueberry!

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This artwork is important to me because it is one of the first examples of me showing a consistent narrative in a piece. This artwork is also one of the strongest examples of me using a consistent and well thought out color pallet in an artwork. I created this piece using watercolor paint and marker.

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Sunny Designs Branding - Charlotte Pinamonti

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Sunny Designs Branding - Charlotte Pinamonti

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This image is the brand board for my personal brand, Sunny Designs. A brand board in graphic design is a collection of the logos, colors, fonts, and other aspects of marketing that make a company unique. I use these pieces for my Sunny Designs Instagram, where I post my professional graphic design and photography projects. Some of these are actual brands for other people! My marketing itself ties a lot of my traits together. The nickname, sparkles, and colors all represent me! I really like how this project turned out, and it encompasses my graphic design journey well!

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This piece made me fall in love with art. It looks quite silly now, but I was very proud of it back then.

When I was in 6th grade, I made this lemon on Chrome Canvas (which was not an ideal program, and had very limited features). I did not have any other art programs at the time, and I was new to digital art. At the time, I was really proud of my work.

It was the first time I was really proud of a drawing I made, and the first time I enjoyed making it. I knew I loved digital art then, and I kept drawing. After almost a year of drawing on Chrome Canvas, I switched to other art programs. I joined art clubs and started sharing my art with others!

While my art has definitely improved since this lemon was made, I still enjoy looking at it, as it reminds me of the reason I started making art.

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This is a piece that made me fall in love with art more from a few years ago. What I would probably consider not to be one of my greatest works, creating this barrel of monkeys out of the same type balloon in under 7 minutes, I really surprised myself. Since this was for a competition at an online convention, I was really surprised that during the awards ceremony I was announced as the winner and I was so surprised and shocked!! As a fellow balloon artist messaged us and said "you can now advertise yourself as international award winning balloon artists" which is absolutely true! Now combined Zach and I have over 15 international awards for balloons. What is even more incredible was last year we were able to meet all of our balloon friends from all over the world at a international balloon convention which was amazing!

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An artwork that I love is our balloon art tractor.

I still look and cannot believe that we created this, and for it to be slightly bigger than a real tractor is amazing to me. This is our largest balloon that we (Zoe and I) have created yet. The original plan was for the tractor to hang from the ceiling, so there is also detail underneath you cannot see. The best compliment was this year at the Farm Show, someone entered a picture of our tractor in the photo contest. This took about 3 car trips to deliver, and then assemble into 1 piece, and was 100% self-standing.

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Mackenzie McClure - Best of Show Photography Award 2024

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Photography has become one of my favorite artistic mediums over the course of the last few years. I mostly started in 8th grade (2022), where I was using a basic point and shoot camera. I realized just how creative I could be when holding a camera in my hands. I entered my first photography contest in August 2022 where I entered a basic photo of a baseball on a dugout bench. That simple photo ended up sparking a passion. I had won 1st place that year in my category and have gone on to enter nearly 20 photography contests since! Pictured above is one of the accomplishments that I am most proud of, winning Best of Show at my local county fair out of hundreds of entries.

The truth is entering competitions can be scary but can be so rewarding - even if you don't always win. You'll find the journey is often worth much more than a final score you'll receive.

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Post a school appropriate art piece that either....

1. You love

2. Made you fall in love with art

Feel free to share memories and pictures!