DRAWN_BY_NAAJIA

drawing, painting, & illustration

[drawnbynaajia]

Artist Statement

I create artwork representing different aspects of myself, my imagination, and my memories. I often use color, texture, and content to express the deepest parts of myself through my work. I use art as an outlet to express myself in ways that I don’t always know how to verbally or am afraid to express out loud. My artwork helps me relive past moments and reminisce on the thoughts or memories of my life.

More below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Jwg9p9jcArqPK12oISZktsayjkEAFdY/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115795216753347229967&rtpof=true&sd=true

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Title: Dreams

Artist: Naajia Ali and Paul Willard

Date: 11/04/2024

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Title: Mindless Swimmers

Date: 05/02/2024

Description: This is another project done for class and has the most character out of all my work. The process of creating this painting was an emotional one. The content really hits home for me. This whole process of creating this piece makes me think about my view of life and the world. It felt good to express what I was feeling at the time, and it was sort of therapeutic.

More below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bXCUQKllhNNhtoxyNWUKRr9njVU_--Zbug9z5ceBgFM/edit?usp=sharing

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Date: 04/20/24

Description:

Study of props found in my current classroom. I created this piece by drawing it and coloring it in watercolor.

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Title: Untitled

Date: 08/16/2024

Description: I created an abstract piece for this project using triangular shapes to resemble two letter N’s. The creation of this piece was very interesting and took me a lot of thinking. When we were in talks about what was being created, I knew I didn’t want to create something that was just the first letter of my name. I wanted to create with a little pizazz.

More below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15rq9uqxMyKvoJvRNkNwU5qpOL-lcwf_r0eBzZISxKtQ/edit?usp=sharing

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Title: Sketch of Woman

Date: 04/2024

Description: Study I did of a model last semester. I really challenged myself with this sketch, since I only went to clothes model sessions and not dude ones, I had to create this one from imagination. I took the pose of the model and pictured the form and the shapes of the model. How it would look if she wasn't clothed. I used this as a way of creating a nude reference for the piece, "Pool of The Mind."

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Title: Space Girl

Date: 10/03/24

Description: This piece was one of a painting challenge on social media where we were given a piece and were tasked to draw it in our own styles. I went for the usual playful and cartoonish style that I create in when I'm not tasked with an art assignment. So, I'm happy with how child-like and colorful the final result is.

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Title: Self Portrait: Girl with The Hoop Earrings

Date: Oct, 2022

Description: Self-portrait I did in class a few semesters ago. For this piece I took a lot of my inspiration from classic illustrations, especially work by Andrew Loomis.

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Title: "Eating Bowl"

Date: 11/2023

Description:

Other ceramic piece I did last year. I used black underglaze and experimented with various the glazed I have in the studio to make this abstract design.

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Title: "drinking Cup"

Date: 12/2024

Description:

One of the first cups I made. It's a little slanted but otherwise a good drinking cup. Material is of course clay. I tried to make a tie-die effect with the paint buy using clay to stick the cup to the spinner. I slowly poured various underglaze paints on top of it and then turned the spinner on (with a light speed) with a bowl covering it to prevent spills.

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Title: (still deciding)

Date: 03/23/2024

Description:

Also a project from my painting 1 class. The medium is oil paint on canvas paper I believe.

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Digital self Portrait

Date: 11/2023

Description:

This is my first time creating art online and I really enjoyed it and plan to do more. The medium is of course digital and the style is vector/ cubism art (or at least that was my intention).

Created it as a class project, like the majority of my posts are. But never fear, I have a series of personal pieces and work (in my personal style) that I have finished and still creating. Stay tuned.

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Date: 04/18/24

Title: "A College park"

Description:

painted the park outside at my current college. It's a black-and-white study made in black ink (with a little water). Fun fact I drew it with a carved stick found outside, lol.

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Date: 02/22/24

Title: unknow

Description:

I made study of props in class with pastels with many colors. I wanted it to look very classic. I wanted to emulate a prop in a shop window of a 1980s mall, or something of the nature.

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Date: 03/07/2024

Description:

Self-portrait I did earlier this year. It's made with pastels in an impressionism style and with very bright colors. I love this one and it's one of my most favorite pieces.

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Date: 09/2021

Description:

Study of male figure and skull.

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Date: November 2023

Title:

About Piece:

Title: Mimi the Flower

My first original character design