I love to create art because I love to paint & draw. I want to be an animator one day! Art has always been stuck with me because of my dad.
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My favorite type of art to create are landscapes and portraits of animals. I love painting landscapes because I personally love nature and I love the colors that makes nature pop! If that makes sense. It just brightens your day when you paint a beautiful landscape where you wish that you can be there. As for portrait of animals, I found it very enjoyable to paint animals fur and using different colors to contrast the darker areas instead of black, gray and white.
Where do you find inspiration?That's a good question, I find inspiration through artists Im a fan of like Bob Ross, Chuck Close and Frida Khalo. They were a really big inspiration for me and not only that, my dad is also my inspiration because ever since he was taken away to Mexico, he would always send me cards with Disney drawings he drew for me. Saying how much he misses me and I will draw and send him a card back saying I miss you too. Drawing has always been a big part in life because it felt like my dad is still here.
What would you do with $25,000?What I would do with $25,000 is save it and use half of it to buy a house. Cause thats something me and my family are working towards for so long. And it's buying a house to finally have our own place. We always live through apartments and it was hard for us to keep up with rent because it's $2,000 a month. And since I'm going to UNLV for film. I want to be able to leave a house for my parents to live in so they don't have to struggle anymore.
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