I've been drawing since I was in elementary school, but took the leap to digital art in 8th grade. Part of what had been holding me back for so long was that I didn't have a tablet or stylus, but after feeling very inspired one day seeing posts from my favorite artists, I decided that I would bite the bullet and start by drawing with my finger on my touchscreen Chromebook.
I received a lot of encouragement from my family to join art contests for fun — and my finger-drawn art even got selected to be made into a special-edition Black History Month San Diego Public Library Card. After three years of drawing with my finger, I entered an art contest and drew a four-page comic by hand digitally, and ended up winning 1st place and an iPad and Apple Pencil in 11th grade! Ever since then, I have been using Procreate as my primary medium to draw (but shoutout to Infinite Painter and Autodesk Sketchbook, my original loves).
Click below to view all the art on my Instagram page, or keep scrolling to see a few of my favorite works!
(P.S. If you make it to the bottom of my feed, try to spot where I stopped drawing with my finger and when I got my iPad!)
