PRELIM TASK: Reader Profile

This is Irina Alexandra, aged sixteen. She is a Greek fine art student from Athens, who is intrigued by the history of her country as well as its mythology. She attends college and is a very independent learner who is able to express herself better through her drawings. As well as studying fine art and history for her aspiring creative future career in art, she takes part in a weekly pottery class furthermore a writing club where she enjoys improving inventive skills. Since the age of 11, she has been constantly entering art competitions to be able to challenge herself, and has shelves stacked with medals, ribbons, trophies and certificates from winning previous ones with her incredible drawings. She hopes to travel all over to world alongside sketching and painting countries' people and landscapes to record all of her journeys. Irina loves spending her free-time alone in art exhibitions & galleries in hope of having one filled with her own work someday, libraries where she mostly reads about fine art as well as its history and at her local coffee shop in the early morning for her daily coffee and to doodle whatever and whoever she sees in one of her many sketchbooks. Irina has recently hit 11,000 followers on her Instagram account where she posts her artwork and follows other artists' with different work and styles.
Irina's favorite type of fine art is photo-realistic pencil drawings. She is constantly amazed at the amount of detail an artist can put in a portrait, therefore finds it fascinating. Irina tries to draw as much as she can to develop her talent and technique; she usually prefers to draw big-scale, at least A3 to be able to get as much detail in as she can. The longer she works on it, the happier she feels. However, she is not always pleased with the results. As a perfectionist, like most artists, she often feels untalented and dislikes her work. However with her art Instagram page, she has been able to gain support for her work and like it more. Irina is constantly getting comments, direct messages and emails telling her how much her exquisite talent at such a young age inspires younger people; this motivates her to practice more and keep going with her artistic journey in hope of one day being able to show the public her pieces in person at her very own exhibition.
The fact that an artist can imagine a piece in their mind, whether it may be a drawing, painting, sculpture, dance, piece of writing, recipe, photography or film, and bring it to life for the entire rest of the world to see astounds her, and Irina's goal is to copy that image in her head as indistinguishably as possible on paper with a pencil as well as encourage people at a young age to do the same.