I’ve been drawing since a young age and what inspired me to draw were the cartoons I watched and loved. I wanted to be able to draw my favourite characters as a kind of tribute to how much I appreciated them. As I grew as an artist and a person, I soon found myself creating my own characters and my own stories through my art. I was able to create new people and new worlds all inside one picture.
I draw both realism and cartoon and sometimes even a mix of the two since I think both styles should be appreciated. I love using different contrasts in different pieces, like having a really bright happy piece next to a dark monotone one. Drawing people, whether they’re real or not, has always been what I love doing and I would always put my art above everything else in my life.
I tend to rear more towards realism and portraits from the waist up, giving a more detailed and up-close look to the human model. Though realism is key, my ideal of realism in portraiture is not capturing the model as they look in the photo, but capturing them in more perfection. Using paint and colours to get rid of imperfections, unwanted features and changing the portrait into not just a portrait of an ordinary human, but a portrait of the perfection. – Soraya Caraca
- Characters by Soraya Caraca - 13th October 2016