Unique art stands out and demands your attention. It is so startling and brilliant that you cannot tear your eyes away from it, and it speaks to the emotions within you.
Award-winning pencil artist Samantha Messias is a big believer in the power of art. It enabled her to communicate her struggles during her dark and challenging childhood and then deal with her past traumas when she became an adult.
“The more I drew, the more my subconscious mind pushed those trapped emotions to the surface of my consciousness and almost forced me to deal with what I had been burying for so long,” Samantha explains.
Meaning Through Art
Now that Samantha is a renowned artist, she wants to share her gift with as many people as possible. She wants to inspire others to pick up a pencil or a paintbrush and experience the healing power of art, and she wants to bring intense joy to anyone who buys one of her drawings.
“I want to give something that touches someone emotionally,” Samantha says. “People will look to create an everlasting memory about something or someone that means a lot to them.”
She particularly loves drawing her clients’ lost loved ones because she sees it as a way of keeping their memory alive, and she likes her art to be as meaningful as possible. She says some people have cried tears of joy when they see their nearest and dearest immortalized in her hyper-realistic drawing.
Another powerful source of emotion for people is their pets. So many owners love their animals in the kind of boundless, unconditional way that words never seem to be able to describe adequately.
Canadian animal rights activist Anthony Douglas Williams came close. He said, “When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.”
But art is often a more effective way to express feelings of love. And Samantha relishes the opportunity to capture people’s emotions about their pets and channel them into a beautiful drawing that they can keep forever.
Samantha’s Method
Samantha Messias is popularly known as ‘The Human Printer’ because her drawings are so astoundingly detailed that they look like photographs. She uses a technique called Hyperrealism, which she discovered shortly after graduating from university in 2012.
She tried it out using the grid method and found that it worked for her, so she began teaching herself the skills and disciplines needed to produce such remarkable art, and she has rendered the world around her in piercing detail ever since.
“The way I create my drawings is not about trying to reproduce every exact detail, texture, and contrast from the reference material,” Samantha explains. “It’s about adding something that wasn’t there before, intensifying and manipulating details, contrasts, and textures, awakening emotion, life, and curiosity into the heart of the observer, not just into the artwork itself.”
Sharing Her Art With The World
When Samantha was in her early twenties, her artwork began to get recognized on social media platforms, and her following and audience increased. This led to multiple gallery representations, exhibitions, awards, and recognition as a few artists at the top of her genre.
“I began to sell my work and started to get many commission drawings from friends, family, investors, and art lovers,” Samantha recalls. “I knew at this point that I could make this my full-time career.”
Since that moment, Samantha’s following has grown to the point where she now has almost 50,000 followers on Instagram. She relishes the opportunity to share her art with such a wide audience and speak to her followers’ emotions: “I continue to inspire and encourage and give hope to millions around me through the incredible connection of the Internet and social media by sharing my artwork and my story.”
To find out more about Samantha and her remarkable artwork, visit samanthamessiasart.com.