Hi! I’m Elani, I’m 16 years old and have a love for digital art, it’s my favorite way to make art. This year I explored a lot of immersions with art. Ranging from simple watercolors to 3D Design. To me, I find art as a way to relax and have never held myself to high expectations in it. I would say I am the opposite for about every other thing I work in so it’s nice to have an outlet. To me, being good is reflecting your positivity towards others and sharing it with them. This can be through volunteering, writing letters, expressing gratitude, sharing art and knowledge. Doing anything that doesn’t directly benefit you, just to help others or empower others is being good. In my 3D Design immersion, I found that that was my favorite art form to do, I have never been a big painter or drawer or just about anything except Digital art. If I didn’t have it, I wouldn’t really have an art form I like that much, I bet it's the same for some people too. What’s sad is this could be the case for some people who may love technology or digital art or be inventive, but they don’t have access to it. It reminds me of a community read book we read one year called, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.” In short, It was about a boy who built a windmill to help his family have electricity. That’s amazing! And it’s heartbreaking to know there are people out there with such a want to learn and explore things, but can’t or struggle to because of the lack of resources. My artifact represents the things you can do when provided with the resources. It inspires me to help provide the resources to eager learners so they can make things like this too! Even their own digital artwork! For me personally, when I myself was doing good, it was not during this experience but after. The project itself isn’t an example of doing good, but my experience after that, after exploring that skill, I didn’t do projects for myself, I did it for others, I offered to do artwork for other people, like I have done before when exploring digital art that’s my connection to good, sharing my art to help others. I’m sure there are people out there interested in digital art, who want to do the same!
