by Sara Lewis
Digital artists often get overlooked in the art world. Junior Joshua Nasiatka has worked hard on his digital art for many years and so today we will feature some of the work he does.
Q:What are your favorite things to draw, and why?
A: When drawing, I take a favor in sketching. I like to draw figures that shade well. One that I can do well is an apple with a light source and shadow. That being there’d be an apple with a lighter to no shade at the face of the apple towards the light source and a dark shade on the face away from the light source with a proportional shadow. I’m not quite sure why I favor sketching shadow and apples, but I think it’s because it is one of the few things I can sketch and make it look relatively good.
Q:What was the first drawing you can remember doing?
A:The only thing I can remember doing a long time ago would be messy-looking stick figures with boxy clothing drawn overlaying it so the original black-outlined stick-figure was really visible.
Q:What interested you in art?
A:I’m not quite sure what exactly interested me in the first place to get me into producing art, but as for aspects of art I am interested in, I’m interested only in specific aspects of art, not painting or pottery or drawing, but in the aspects of web design, Photoshop and the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite, sketching shadows (apples), my amateur works of origami, and my filmmaking.
I know that web design pulled me in around the seventh grade when I first googled “how to make a website” and it went on from there. The sketching portion came from my required art class, so I took “Art 1” and that got me into being able to sketch with shadows. As for Adobe, I have always had an admiration for the works of people on Deviant Art and all over the web and I decided I wanted to learn how to use the projects.
Photoshop and several other Adobe products I taught myself, and I have grown my knowledge in that suite of programs with the courses that I’ve taken which included the use of those programs.
As for origami, I was first interested in that when a friend of mine in the fifth grade was teaching me how to make origami paper cranes and “throwing stars;” I thought it was cool. Now I have several books on origami.
Q:How long have you been doing art?
A: I’d say a long time, probably since the fifth grade with origami. I hated drawing before then, and now I just would rather use the option of computerized art over hand-drawn. And at that time, the origami got me into that form of art, and as time passed I gained my several pathways of art knowledge, web, Adobe, etc.
Q:What motivates you as an artist?
A: What motivates me as an artist would be if someone asked me to make something out of origami for them or if they wanted me to design and construct a website for them or making websites for myself. I also design wallpaper for my computer as well in my free time if I get bored of whatever is on the screen.
Q:What inspires you to do the things you do in art?
A: Coming across amazing works of graphic design on the web and making a constant stride to be great and better.
Q: Any final words?
A: The pieces featured in this profile are myArtGallery, my Saving Energy Ad, my Logo, and lyric poster. I included these because I think they are my best pieces of the year.
Also my web design work is located at http://jnasiatkawdportfolio.webs.com/
