"I am an artist. I like to Create Things."
Let me first start off with saying how much I LOVE being here and being a part of this community of people. I have to be honest, I took this whole thing a bit slow. My boyfriend told me about it one day and I was truly a bit weary on how all this worked. After about a week of diving in, exploring, reading, doing a little bit of up-voting and commenting – I came to a realization – this place is amazing. I love how positive people seem to be. I love how this platform connects people from all over the world. I mean, Facebook and other platforms bring all nations together, but I don’t think I have ever come across as much content from such a diverse group of people on Facebook as I have here on Steemit – that’s incredible. I am a bit of a humanitarian at heart, I love all people and cultures – I love getting that glimpse into the little details that make them each so different and so beautiful. The Steemit community appears to be awesome at providing that – so I am thrilled to be here!
A Little Bit About Me.
I am an artist. I like to create things, make things more beautiful, and capture moments of beauty. There has never been a medium that I haven’t been able to pick up and learn quickly, adapt to, or create with. I love them all – oils, acrylics, pastel, colored pencils, photography, video editing, watercolor, digital art, graphic design, typography.. I mean, if I can create something with it – and it won’t kill me (hah!) – then I’m all in. My grandfather was one of my most favorite humans. He passed two years ago, but my favorite picture and memory was of me at the age of 4, sitting at their hearth in the lower den, painting with watercolors that my grandma didn’t want me to use because “it would be such a mess”! If he had listened to her, and not rebelliously set up those paints for me, there is really no telling if I would be the artist I am today. He always fostered my talent and when my mama would say “I can’t draw a stick figure, I don’t know where she gets it”, I would always reply “I get it from my Papooh.”
I went to Art School – and I’m NOT starving (Yayyyy!)
I graduated from East Carolina University in North Carolina with a bachelor of Fine Art in Communications with a dual concentration in Graphic Design and Illustration (that’s a whole lot of fancy talk for “I got a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration”). An epic achievement that I will have to tell in another story, I am very proud of my artistic education – ECU was a fantastic University and their Jenkin’s School of Fine Art was ranked 10th in the nation and 8th in the southeastern region of the country. And the competition was crazy – they only took 14 of us out of about 70 applicants that semester for the Graphic Design program. Yeah, not everyone gets to be a graphic designer at ECU – just because you told your advisor you were going to major in Graphic Design program didn’t mean shit until you completed the foundations courses, prepared a portfolio from your one year of introductory classes and presented it to a board of Art Directors over the entire school. That small group of individuals reviewed all 70+ applicants and determined whether the last year of your life was going to be the biggest waste of time ever, or you would be able to move forward with your life’s plan. Luckily I was able to move forward and I sit here today, still learning, but making my mark on the world around me, even in the smallest ways. Today, I am 10 years into my professional career and I really, truly can say I love what I do. By day I work for "the man" at a software development company that produces diagnostic software for heavy-duty trucks, by night and weekend I work with my boyfriend to create all kinds of visual solutions for a very wide range of freelance clients. Every project, every piece of art, every place I visit, every photograph I take - I am re-fueled and my passion for art continues to grow.
I’m pretty eclectic…
I am a lover of all things art, a mad foodie, a freakish lover of cats.. and pretty much anything cute with fur…well pretty much all animals, a movie buff, a water lover (put my toes in the sand, a margarita in my hand and set me free to dance to the rhythm of the waves), Disney fanatic, theme park thrillist, and a curious traveler always dreaming of an adventure. I love ALL music – literally – any style, if it’s not trash for cash, has a great melody and some kickin’ lyrics, I’m going to enjoy it. I love learning and I enjoy experiencing other cultures from around the world – it fuels my inner creativity. I am fascinated by science, especially quantum physics and metaphysics – the theoretical sciences blow my mind and it’s a lot of fun to sit and contemplate deep philosophical concepts with others. I plan to share a lot of different things here – photography from shoots I do, to paintings I am working on, to design work I may create for a client, to pictures from my travels and goings on! I hope you will follow my journey here on steemit – I am looking forward to meeting new people, drawing new inspiration and feeling the energy that is so exhilarating here on the steemit platform! Much love to you all – STEEM ON!
@j-vo
If you enjoyed my post and are interested in seeing more of what I do and where I go, please consider following me, up-voting my post, and re-steeming to the rest of the Steemit community! I look forward to following each of you back and I look forward to getting to know everyone :) <3
All photography and creative artwork displayed in this post were created by @j-vo.
Hey @j-vo
** First of all your really beautiful**
I would like to request you please keep posting this type of valueable content for the community of steemit as this platform is growing up day by day .. I would request you that you must support new steemer like me and other .
I am in love with one of my post as a senior steemer I need your Honest feedback regadding that . If you get time from your busy life and write your comment upon it . It will be really apprecited ..*
If I missed I do Apoligize for that ...
Lots Of Love For Future Posts
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Regards Sophia Olive
Hey @sophialive! Thank you for your sweet comments - you are very lovely yourself! I am following you as well, have reviewed your blog and look forward to reading your posts! :)
Congratulations @j-vo!
Your post was mentioned in my hit parade in the following category:
Welcome to Steem @j-vo I have sent you a tip
Totally diggin your work! :)
Thank you again @joshuadavis - you're seriously making my day man! Thank you thank you <3
Anytime lady! <3
You seem like a very beautiful soul who has a lot to offer the world. Welcome to the community and I look forward to reading more of your posts! Cheers from Salt Lake City.
Thank you @joshua-pace - I feel like a parrot, but I really really really am having a lot of fun getting to know the community. I will keep up with what you are doing as well - have a great day!
Welcome to this incredible platform, hope everything will work out for you. Being here it’s not easy but not difficult neither only an extra effort will go a long way, engagement is the key good luck I’m @tinashe Start by Following ,Upvoting &Resteeming people and they will do the same.
CHECK >>>TIPS-MY FIRST WEEK ON STEEMIT- https://steemit.com/steemit/@tinashe/tips-my-first-week-on-steemitwowooooo @j-vo your welcome in this great community. your right about the different between Facebook, other social media platform and steemit. there is a strong bound here in steemit that can't be found in other place. I love all the art work you displace. they are so lovely. you have a great talent. just continue to work hard okay, success is yours.
your drawings are good ,would love to have my user name designed into a drwaing,can you do that?
Hey @Tinashe - What do you think?
That's sweet!
👏 👏 👏 👏
Bravo bravo i love it!!!
What can i do for you ,because i am looking forwad to work with you on more projects,you work is super amazing👍👍
YAY!!!!!!
You know, I am new here, so I am not sure how this platform would work - I definitely never shy away from gratuity - HAH! ;)
I would love to work with you on other projects - new work keeps me excited and it truly is fun for me! Any way to build business is AWESOME!
If you would like to provide a donation, let me know what I need to do and we can go from there!
Well i would love more steemit logos ,with your unique designer touch and keep me looped on your latest designs and proljetcs.I am posting the logo on my account will mention you.
Thank you! I am really glad you like it! :) Be sure to right click and open in a new tab to be sure to get your full sized image - I hope it does you well!
Yah i have done that ,and its awesome
Thank you so much! YES! I can absolutely do that :) What did you have in mind? I can design it to fit and suit any style or interest that you have, something that would be a personal logo that would be a true visual representation of who you are!
loved what you did with the upvote logo,thats the same style i prefer but the colour should be blue.Unless if you have more cool designs
I would like to do something completely custom for you - let me take a look at your blog posts and I will see what I can come up with - if you have a hex code for the blue that you like, feel free to send it!
i dont have the hex code,but can you do the custom logo ,i want to see how creative you can be.
Sure - ok, so do you want a Tinashe logo - working in the word Tinashe? Or just the up-vote, resteem and follow icons in blue and more to fit your style? or Both? LOL, just want to make sure I am on the same page as you! :)
i want both,that will do!!!!😉😉
i have followed you
Hi J-Vo,
It's great to have you on Steemit!
Nice to meet you!
Hi Phrase! Its very nice to meet you as well - I love your .gif - the Simpsons are the BEST! Thank you for reading my post :)
ayy welcome to steemit, i just got my girlfriend to join too, you should follow her shes also trying to get used to this whole thing...
you should also check out steemspeak.com , best way to connect with a lot of the more active users on steem!
I will definitely do that - thank you for the tip! What is your girlfriend's username? I would love to follow her :)
awesome :) its @cmello ! :)
Great! I have followed you both - thank you!
same to you!!
Wow! You are an amazing artist! I can't wait to see more! Just incredible! and what a cute kitty! Great introduction and welcome to Steemit! I am definitely following and resteemed!
Thank you @i-am-wade!! I can't wait to post more, this is so freakin' cool! I love my kitties, they are my sweet fur-babies - I have doggies too so I will have to post pictures of them in another post :) Thank you for following me - I will definitely follow you too :)
Sure thing you are amazing, I think I'm in love!
Welcome aboard! I think you and your work will find a lot of appreciation here.
Thank you @cobloc - I am really excited to be here and share myself with everyone - this is such a cool platform :)
Hi j-vo, your art is really good! I can't wait to see more :)
Thank you @good-vibes - I look forward to seeing your work too - I'm going to follow you too and we can keep up with each other!
Good deal, I'm following you :)
What a great introduction! I've already followed you after noticing some of your comments. Looking forward to following your journey here. :)
Thank you @alcibiades - I worked hard on it ;) I am really really thrilled with how sweet everyone is and all the great responses - you guys are making my night - I am on cloud 9!!! I look forward to sharing more - I will follow you too!!
I'm glad that you are enjoying it here! :) It's indeed a 'community' like no other.
welcome to steemit
Thanks doll! Hope you are having a great evening!
Welcome to steemit dear :) have fun!
If like to see posts on yoga, health and fitness follow me :)
I LOVE YOGA! I will definitely follow - teach me yoda ;) lol Thank you - much love!
welcome - i am following now and am also a artist - you will love it here
Thank you @daydreams4rock - I like your user name :) I used to have an email address called dreaminthdayaway ;) Thank you for following me - I am going to follow you too - thank you for reading my post!
you understand the idea behind my name -- haha -we will get along well
YESSSS!
i just posted one of my songs and the album art is by me too
I will certainly check it out!!
I thought this was really well done. I'm looking forward to more of your blog. Cheers and welcome.
Thank you @pauljosepharcher - I really appreciate your comment. I am going to follow you as well - I look forward to seeing what you post :)
Welcome @j-vo
I believe you will do great here!
... Followed and Please do stay in touch.
Thank you VERY much @mcekworo! :) I look forward to getting to know you - I am following you so I will be sure to keep an eye out for posts :)
Thanks.
Welcome to Steemit:) Your work looks great. Maybe you could do one for me :)
Hey @navaneth - First, thank you SO much for your comment!! Second, YES - I would love to do something for you - what are you thinking - do you have any ideas of something you would like?
Oh really, you would do that?
Absolutely - when I have free time - (I do work days, nights and weekends, so my commissioned work takes a priority) - but I love taking on new projects! This is what I do professionally so I stay pretty busy. What did you have in mind?
Something dark! Like a tree in the forefront and a house in the background with the whole image spelling something spooky and not right. The tree being Alstonia scholaris :)
@navaneeth - I found some time this evening :) - I took a lot of creative liberty and added a few additional things.. hope you like it
Wow! That's amazing!
Wow, that's awesome!
Hi and welcome jvo. u are really artistic and talented :) cheers from sunny singapore
Hey @chewenhua - Its great to meet you - how amazing that you are alllllllllll the way in SINGAPORE and I am here in little ol' North Carolina :) This is SO cool isn't it :) I can't wait to see your posts, I love learning about all the different places around this beautiful and amazing world! Thank you for your lovely comments :)
indeed lovely to meet u too :) North Carolina and east coast of US seems like a beautiful place to live. looking forward to your future new posts :p
This is nicely done. You've got a great eye for art and design, and I look forward to what you're going to share here. (I'm new here myself.) It's so nice to see someone with an arts education making a success of it--and clearly you deserve it!
Hey @winstonalden - Thank you for that! I am following you and I look forward to seeing what you post! Thank you for reading!
Welcome to Steemit @j-vo! Love your art, and looking forward to more of it.
I'm actually trying to get an amazing artist and friend of mine to join Steemit too. I'll show her your post 😉.
I'm new myself too. Been checking out all the cool content that's here over the last week. So much! If you haven't already, I recommend you do the same. Looking forward to interacting and posting a lot of cool, valuable stuff here.
I will be posting my 'IntroduceYourself' post shortly. Just waiting for my vid from bad ass biker Big Mike…(really excited!).
Hope you’ll have a lot of fun here!
HEY @livenowandwow - Thank you for the love!
I have really enjoyed looking at everyone's posts and there is a TON of talent here - which is SO inspiring! Your girlfriend totally needs to join and share what she does - the more artists the better!!!
Thank you for reading and I will absolutely follow you as well and look forward to reading! Let me know when your girlfriend signs up and I will follow her too!
Thanks! I forwarded your post to her, perhaps this is just the last little push she needs 😜
Welome to Steemit :)
Thank you @framelalife!!
Hello lady!
I am tejas from Awakening Art, Welcome to steemit. I enjoy creating artworks myself with all kinds of mediums. I create figures using different materials, form clay to granite :) If you wish to collaborate sometime Ping me!
And NO I wasn't fortunate enough to go to any art school :)
Hey, art school doesn't make the artist - If you learn your fundamentals it doesn't matter where you learned them from - some people are just naturals! If you can get the opportunity to be among a lot of other like minded individuals you can really expand your learning and skill - and that doesn't have to just exist in a class room! The world is your classroom and this platform especially! There are so many people sharing their knowledge here and I truly believe that with hard work and research and learning anyone can achieve strength in their skillset! Thank you for the comment - I have followed you and look forward to seeing your posts!!
I am glad to have someone here who thinks very much like me :) looking forward to see more of your artworks!
Welcome to Steemit @j-vo! Loved the post. Looking forward to more content! Hope you have a good time here.
Thank you @firepower! I am having so much fun - this first post was so exhilarating! Thanks for your comment - I have followed you and look forward to seeing your posts as well :)
Hey welcome to steemit @j-vo! If you are new to crypto, and have any questions then just hit me up! I'll be happy to answer questions :) And enjoy your stay here!
THANK YOU @kryptoknightk - I will keep that in mind! Its definitely a lot of new information to get assimilated so I very much appreciate you offering some tips and advice as I need it! I am following you - I hope you follow me too! I look forward to seeing your posts ;)
Beautiful introduction! Welcome to Steemit and it's lovely to find another good fellow artist in here! If you need anything just catch me around =)
@anritco - SAME! I It is exciting to meet so many talented people and be inspired by what others are doing! I have really enjoyed seeing your work and I look forward to all the other stuff you put out :)
Welcome to Steemit. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do! :-)
@bart2305 - I am really enjoying it so far - thank you for welcoming me - I will follow you :) I look forward to seeing you around :)
I did the same!
Beautiful work! Welcome to Steemit. @j-vo I'm looking forward to your future posts.
Thank you @chessmonster - I am very much looking forward to yours as well - I really like some of the ones I have seen so far - you are very talented! Have a great day!
Welcome to steemit :D You are welcome to look at my post.
I will definitely check out your blog @inuk - thank you for reading mine :) Have a wonderful day :)
nice art!
Thank you @zenithwombat!! :)