Hi! I'm Julius Sta. Ana, 17 year old from Antipolo City, Philippines

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I'm Julius Sta. Ana, 17 year old and I am a portrait artist from Antipolo City, Philippines.

My nick name is Hulyus by the way.

In this blog, I would like to tell you my story from being an anime artist to being a portrait artist. Everything paid off when I studied making artworks, ofcourse in my first artworks I am not that good. But practice makes perfect.

I started making anime characters when I was 14 years old, here's a sample of my drawing:
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I stopped making drawing when I became 15 years old because I have to focus on my studies, but I am always missing ART, and when I became 16 years old way back December 2016, I was inspired by a Graphite artist, she is making realistic portraits usin only a single pencil. I was really shocked at her drawig because it was so great.

I tried to chat the artist through messenger and asked her for some advices, she did gave me an advice that I should put some shadows on my drawings to make it look realistic.

My first drawing after asking the artist: I used the gridline method in this artwork

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After making thia portrait, I found out that I am not that compatible in using the gridline method so I fpcuaed on enhancing my skills in FREEHAND portraiture.

I am really determined to become a great artist like her, but I have a long way to go.
After 4 months of practicing aince I was inspired, I tried accepting commissioned artworks so that my skills will be challenged, and is really effective because in just making 4 commissioned artworks, my skills are greatly improved.

Here are some of my Commissions way back April 2017: (FREEHAND)

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ALL MY HARDWORK PAID OFF!
I became the person that I wan to be, Art became my bestfriend.

After a year of practicing I tried to remake the artwork that I've done a year ago, to see my improvements, and this shocked me.

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I HAVE IMPROVED A LOT, THANKS TO MY LOVE FOR ART AND TO MY FRIENDS THAT SUPPORTS ME!

Here are some of my artworks in the present, I USED GRAPHITE AND COLOR PENCILS:
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I HOPE I CAN INSPIRE OTHER ASPIRING ARTISTS OUT THERE, JUST PURSUE WHAT YOU WANT AND DO NOT LIMIT YOURSELF THEN YOU WILL ACHIEVE SUCCESS!

THANK YOUUU! ❤

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Whoaaah! Daang! This is amazing! I was having a goosebumps on your work.
Welcome to steemit by the way, hope you'll enjoy here and share more a lot of your amazing art works.
And also your place reminds me of C9/360°view ☺

Wow, thank you Mary!

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Thank you!

Welcome! nice long post, i appreciate the art, Good job!

Welcome Julius! your drawings are really good! keep posting! love your art

Thank you carlo! I promise to keep on posting! 😁

Awesome man! I will keep in touch to see your works

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so much talent you have dear..continue using and developing it! my fave is the 9th picture!!! salute!

welcome to team #achievers

Thank You, I will!

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Welcome to Steemit! Enjoy the ride as much as you can!

Nice drawings..so on point

Wow. Another extra talented in the house. Welcome to steemit! :)

Hey there, welcome to the community. Your drawings looks awesome. They are so cool. I wish you good luck. You'll earn so much for your drawings

Welcome mate 😁

cool bro

You're very talented. I especially like the colour image. Welcome to Steemit.

Welcome to steemit! Keep on drawing!

Thanks for the motivating words and welcome to steemit! Those are some awesome drawings coming from a very young individual like you. Do you continue to take commissions on drawings? :) Just curious.

Yes I take commisions, thank you!

Wow, nice art work bro keep up the good post, and welcome to the steemit. . Have a nice day.

Hi welcome to steemit world!

Cool pictures :-) welcome to the community :-)

Welcome to Steemit! Hello, I loved your art so I included it in my weekly curation Ocean of Art!

Thanks Juliaaaa!

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Welcome to steemit. you are awesome. and love your sketches :)

Welcome to steemit @julius-arts. Love your drawing. You so talented

You are very talented keep up the good work :)

I have to say that you're realistic works of art are really stunning, never stop doing them because they really show how passionated you are to them! You have my follow

Thank you Carina!

Hello there, I'm Oatmeal Joey, and I like to draw and love your drawings of Harry Potter and the other people but mostly Potter. Some people said I was Potter. I like to talk like Potter.

Wow!! You're works are really great! If you like, please do join us at @steemartists! Our community have but one goal, support artists and grow together as a community :D I've only started in steemit a few weeks ago and having these guys have your back is more than assuring :)


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Also, greetings from the Philippines! Mabuhay!

really impressive pencil technique! The Harry Potter portrait is stunning!

Wow...these are amazing!!!

Awesome art @julius-arts!! welcome to steemit!
you may post each of those portraits in individual posts to get the best out of it :)

Waw you are great amazing drawing
Me too I make something like you
You can check my blogFB_IMG_1518647297202.jpg

Welcome to Steemit, Julius! You are right - the improvement over that year is massive...amazing work! Really well done! You must be so proud of your achievements - you certainly should be :D Jay