ABOUT ME
Hello there! My name is Savannah Manley and I am a digital artist. I'm currently seventeen years old as of May 2017, and for as long as I could remember I have been drawing. When I was younger, I always picked up a pencil, marker, crayon, anything I could get my hands on to draw and write with. When I discovered digital artwork, I immediately fell in love with the concept. Since I got my first drawing tablet (Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch), I haven't put it down and have even upgraded to a bigger tablet since then! When I'm not working on Digital Media projects for school, I'm drawing at home and keeping a heavily updated DeviantArt page up to date. Outside of drawing, I ride horses which give me an insane amount of inspiration and have since driven me to achieve a career with them. Yet, even though I likely won't be in an art career or major, that doesn't mean I won't stop drawing!
Why I create art is a very simple question for me to answer. I create artwork because I have always wanted to feel like I had a purpose. For years now, likely since I was a freshman in high school, I felt very lost. I felt left behind in the race towards graduation and towards the final leap into adulthood and it scared me. I didn't want to be left behind and I didn't want to feel lost, hopeless, or useless to society. So, I began to think about what I loved to do. I loved to draw and I loved to make people happy. When those two mixed, it gave me a feeling of fulfillment and from then on, I have tried to make and create artwork that people enjoyed looking at. I wanted to make things that were relatable so others didn't feel they were alone. Artwork has always been an outlet for me to get any sadness, anger, angst or whatever emotions I felt that day out. So, if it can be an outlet for someone else, to look upon a piece of artwork and smile because it was made for them, or it was relatable to them, then I feel like I have a purpose and I have done my job. That is why I create artwork and I will continue to create artwork with that mentality, even when and after my hands and wrists stop working and my drawing skills begin to fade away.