It’s the language of beauty ,a form of expressing emotions words don’t convey. A pleasure for human eye a hand touching one’s soul.
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I do photography, modeling, poetry, calligraphy, designing but what i love above all is highly detailed graphite portraits. I have always been drawing since i was a kid and i just kept improving by self learning because it is truly the language of my soul. There is an aesthetic to the way the graphite shades from deeper grays to lighter ones. The way it can give depth to things or an illusion of darkness or light. That’s why i love graphite portaits.
Where do you find inspiration?Beauty is what drives me. I want to capture it, freeze it in the moment. It seems crazy, but I always get astonished by how a beautiful woman can inspire me. They have that look in their eyes. They incarnate beauty in an eye-captivating way. That is why most of the time the people i draw are women.
What would you do with $25,000?I will use some of it for my college tuition since i am still in college, maybe I’ll go back home to visit my grandfather’s grave because I couldn’t attend his funerals, and then I’ll probably save the rest until I’ve a real investment plan for it.
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