Natalie

Hi, I’m Natalie. I am 13 years old, and I am half Taiwanese and half British, but I was born in Hong Kong, and now I live in Singapore.

I like a lot of different types of art like surrealism and photorealism and I also really like photography, digital art (like using photoshop to make edits etc) and typography/word art (if you can count that as art...) I would say that my favourite type of art to create is definitely portraits, although I can definitely improve.

One thing this year that we did was use photoshop to create an image that represented someone. I really liked my final product, and I’m very happy with it, even though there is always room for improvement. With this I think I wanted to kind of stray away from what everyone else was doing, like blending themselves with a sunset. With this I wanted to capture what it’s like to live in a big city - like bright nights, city lights etc and how the city never sleeps.

During our first unit we drew the human face, and I drew this nose on an iPad. I think it’s okay, but I would like to know what else I could do to improve it (shading, darkness and lightness of pencil to make it 3D) , as there are so many things to improve on when sketching features like noses because it has to look exactly alike.