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Steven Douras
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Recently my local town of St Helens held an open art competition. You could enter pretty much anything you wanted. There were 6 category prizes (Portrait, Drawing, Landscape, Olympics, Mixed Media, Digital), 6 highly commended prizes and also your standard 1st, 2nd and 3rd Awards.

I only found out about the competition 2 days before the deadline so I quickly got to work. I took a photo of my dad and then did an A4 sized pencil portrait of him. Entry fee was £6.00. Although I was happy with the piece, I knew I had rushed it slightly because of the short notice. Also I was able to enter 2 pieces but with the short deadline there was no chance I would get them both finished.

On the opening night I decided to go and visit the gallery and see what the competition was like. I didnt realise the standard would be so high!! When I go home I had a letter waiting for me. It said that I need to go to the prize giving night because my drawing had won something (although no information was given away on what I had won).

After seeing the standard of work at the exhibition I pegged my expectations on getting a highly commended prize, as there were about 4 other pieces that could top me in the drawing category and 3 or 4 in the portrait category.

PRIZE NIGHT - My whole family turned up, and some friends who had seen the progress of my work through facebook. After an hour of browsing the art for a second time the prize giving began. First was the Highly Commended...and my name was NOT read out. I was in shock, and instantly thought they had made a mistake. Next were the Category winners. And each category winner duely deserved to win. Then it came to the Drawing Categoty Winner. Me!! "Steven Douras with the Portrait titled 'George'."

One of the best moments ive ever experienced. Never tyhought I would win it yet afterwards I had multiple people approach me to concratuate me and tell me it was well deserved. Still in shock about the whole thing. But it has given me the confidence and the drive to not only enter more competitions but also to push my art to the next level.

Steve
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I have been drawing for a while now, and I do commissions here and there for friends and family. But ive decided to step it up a little and try and make a decent go of it with my Art Career.

I will keep uploading portraits on here, but I am now starting to produce Prints of my work. There are several Art Fairs in and about the North West of England so I plan to get some stock together and sell sell sell. I have also met someone who is a talented photographer and we have decided to team up and try this out.

I will keep this page updated with my progress, or you can follow my progress on my Illustrator page on Facebook.

www.facebook.com/SDouras

If you get a chance, please have a look and like the page, and feel free to make any comment, critiques or even just give a little advice. All the help you can give is greatly appreciated.

Now, Back to work!
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I want to produce an image today, but something a bit different from wha I normally do. My Mac is out of actio at the moment so whatever I produce, it will most likely be traditional media. Let's get to it!

Steven
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Re-Motivated

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Today I started back at it!

Working on a self-portrait as well as making it into a video to advertise my work. I am also doing a bit of work for a friends comic. One of the images I have completed can be found in my gallery. It is good to be back in action.

Whoopah!
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I went for a walk today and I had quite a few things on my mind. It got me thinking.  Thinking about decisions I have made in my life and  more importantly, the mistakes that I have made. When I got home, I heard a song that seemed to sum up perfectly what I felt like. I have one major regret in life, and mt mind keeps doing loops to this one part of my life. And although I can do nothing to change it now, I know that I need to do something to move on from it.
So I have decided to do a series of images to represent this. And then once I have finished, hopefully that can be the closure that I need.

So Let us begin.

Steve
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