About Me

 

 

 

 

Name: Caroline Nyman
Date of Birth: January 4 1985
Gender: Female
Born in: Karlstad, Sweden
Current location: Antwerpen, Belgium
Nationality: Swedish
Language(s): English, Swedish, abit Dutch
Contact: Contact
MSN/Skype: Ask me

 

I started drawing/colouring as a child in colourbooks and doodled on every paper I could find. I loved art in school and somehow I managed to get top grades there as well!

Decided to join a high school focused on art where I learned the basics about anything art related but after 3 years I almost wanted to stop drawing.
"Real art" was just not my cup of tea.. people pissing on the streets, shitting on a canvas and hanging crushed cups in the ceiling? No thank you that will never be art in my eyes.
But I tried stuff I did love though, animated movies and photo was really fun! Wish I can do some animated movies again in the future.

After school I didn't draw much at all. Instead I was taking photos on everything I saw and was almost sure I was going to a photo school. I don't know what happened but I didn't. I guess I was just totally sick of school.

2006, after playing alot of World of Warcraft and other useless things, I started drawing again. And now I tried to do it in a computer. Started colouring with a mouse in Photoshop, which is not easy at all, really. 2008 I purchased a cheap Trust tablet and PaintTool Sai and I fell in love!
I was drawing all the time and DeviantArt became my new best friend and there I found alot of other awesome artists that gave me inspiration. I tried to improve as much as possible and Googled alot after tutorials that could help me become a better artist.

I think I started taking private commissions around 2009 which was crazy, I got money for drawing! Unreal! I think after a year I had enough money to buy myself a Wacom Intous 4. Wow it was such an upgrade! How was I even able to draw with the last one I had? I love Wacom!

At this point I also found my boyfriend in World of Warcraft, the only problem was he was from Belgium. But that didn't stop me, I just moved there! I didn't have any work that held me back in Sweden and all I needed was my Wacom and a computer.

2011 I entered a contest on DeviantArt for the first time.
You could win alot of money, a new Wacom tablet and much more and all you had to do was using these 3 stock images provided from fotolia.com.
This painting took me over 90 hours to create. Longest I ever worked on an artwork, there were many sleepless nights.
And when it was time for judging they picked my painting as a first place winner. I was in total chock, I never won anything this big before! Just unreal, really!
It sure gave a little boost of self confidence there.

I still have alot to learn but I wish that someday I will earn enough money as an artist to be able to survive on my own or get a decent art related job somewhere.
The future have many untold stories but one thing is for sure, I will keep on drawing and practise as much as I can!

Well, that's it for now!

Thank you for reading.

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