Welcome to my first blog entry, it feels so weird to say because I use to write blogs back in the day. Thatâs a story for another time.
I thought to centre my first blog post around my art story so far. As weeks past I will be discussing many topics around my art journey, the things I have learnt so far and things a lot of artists go through. I want my blogs to offer advice, insight and give people an opportunity to share their thoughts. I hope along the way it brings some comfort and happiness to know we are all walking different paths together.
Where do I begin⊠I guess letâs start when I first fell in love with art. Well, I was around five years old when I realised my passion for art. My mum always said I was into drawing and crafts. I was an introverted child that spent most of my time colouring and drawing. My childhood dream was to be an artist and show my art to the world. I can say I am living that dream right now.
Throughout my teenager years, I did choose Art and Design as a subject at GCSE level. However it didnât allow me to tap into my full potential. That type of education did limit me, I was a free bird who was forced into a cage and told to follow the system. Even though I learnt some skills, I was limited to what I could learn.
The expectation from society and family, destroyed my confidence and belief in myself. I drifted away from the one thing that brought me joy because I was told I was not good enough to make it as an artist. I pursued a degree that allowed my academic intelligence to flow but dried up my creativity. My law degree taught me, I didnât want to live a life without creativity, I want to live a life of passion. The problem was, being lost for all that time I didnât know how to reignite my passion.
Throughout my early to mid 20s, I did some craft projects here and there. It never felt as fulfilling. It wasnât until 2021, after years of feeling lost and trying various things that I decided to launch my first art shop.
SerenitySKCreations. I started off creating small crafts, like hair clips and pin badges.
In that very year I became a fan of BTS and listening to their music inspired me to create art. It reignited that passion I felt I had lost and allowed me develop skills I didnât know I had. I started off simple and did lineart pieces. It made me feel happy. The joy I found when creating art.
Around mid 2022, I had a job opportunity to move to London. During that process, I had to keep my art supplies packed away so I couldnât create traditional art during that point. So I shifted to digital art, I started creating pieces here and there via my phone. Thatâs when my digital art journey began.
I left my job on October 12th 2022, on October 13th 2022 I decided I wanted to pursue a career as an artist. It was a difficult journey, I will say that. I remember that was the day I posted my first Jimin portrait digital art. One of my favourite pieces to this day. For the first time I felt like I had real talent. Something I hadnât felt since I was a child.
From that day, I explored and developed many skills and techniques through the digital art medium, I used softwares like Ibispaint and Procreate to create beautiful pieces of art.
Jimin became my muse, I never felt so inspired to keep creating art from a person who held such a creative aura. I played around with colour, themes and styles. It made me feel alive.
In 2023, around June time I moved back home. My mental health was really bad. When I returned to art in 2021, that was a time where I was going through a very difficult time. Art bought me serenity, it allowed my mind to go quiet and feel my emotions. But in June 2023, art was not helping me to feel better. Thatâs when I realised that the art I wanted to create had to be emotive.
My emotions needed to be in a more balanced state for me to create meaningful art. That year I wanted to rebrand and start a new art platform. Thatâs when I birthed Sonamâs Art Space. I wanted to create art that showed my various interests, my own little space on the internet.
January 2024 birthed this website. That year I did continue to create BTS art. I went back to traditional art and for the first time I dabbled in painting portraits. I was stunned that I was able to create art I was proud of. My favourite painting from that year was definitely the portrait I painted for Jiminâs Birthday. That was a year where I created a lot of Jimin art, I was just so inspired by his Muse album.
Now we are in 2025, and thatâs where it starts to get interesting. In the first month of the year, I was working hard to get my first fantasy book, ready and published. I had finished writing it back in 2023 and over the year that followed I was editing it. I sat down in January 2025 to now design the book cover.
Itâs funny when I think back, I would never have imagined that I would be the artist to design my very own book cover for my debut fantasy book. For the first time I felt a lot of pressure, this piece of art meant something. Itâs not like the other pieces of art that came before this didnât, they were created for fun. This book cover would represent a story that I hold close to my heart.
We all know the saying âDonât judge a book by itâs coverâ but we all know that people judge the cover. So after three weeks I was able to create a cover I was happy with. I had to remind myself that I had only learned digital art for around a one year and six months. So I had to give myself credit for that and, I am self taught. The thing I am grateful for is that I was able to create something that has my own vision and my own imprint. To be honest, it turned out great.
On February 7th, I published my book. Thatâs when things started to shift with me when it came to art. I knew that BTS art was coming to an end, I wasnât feeling guided to it anymore and I had learnt the skills I needed. Jimin is still my muse but I wanted to shift my Jimin art to a hobby.
So I was a bit stuck like what do I do now? Thatâs when it dawned upon me. I created a fantasy world and I thought⊠I can create art from this. In that moment I knew this was what I was being prepared to do. Thatâs when I realised your intention is very important when you decide to be a creator and an artist.
So now you all are caught up. Now in present time, I embarking on a new chapter, one that has an intention to influence and comfort. My first chapter was about joy and learning which I achieved. Where this new chapter leads to only the journey will tell, but I am approaching it from a more experienced and authentic self.
I know as I look back, my five year old self is proud of me for not giving up. So, if you are someone who is pursuing a life long dream, just know your younger self is routing for you.
You often only need one person to believe in you, that person should always be yourself. I was lucky that I had the support of my brother, who never stopped believing in me. One person plus yourself is enough for you to keep going. If you donât have a person, then I believe you. Go show the world what you bring is just as worthy as everyone else.
Together we can live lives we are happy with!
Sonamâs Art Space is a self made art business that sells hand made art pieces that have been traditionally painted, also feature digitally d
