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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Dustin Hohman
Bio
I have began drawing with my right hand recently the last 8-12 months have been render after render, since my writing is fairly decently good or great, now I have mastered my left hand and have used my left for comparison with drawing and writing the entire time, I use to do this as a younger kid I never got to the drawing phase and then sort of messed my hand up around 12-13..
Artist Statement
I sort of made an error, so I probably wrote between 1-2 thousand hours but I forgot about drawing, I’ve been drawing between the ages of 3-4 when I picked up my first coloring book, but it would be narcissistic to state that my coloring was great but compared to other children I drew lightly I was being taught by others around me about art during this time.
This would of been shading and outlining days by the age of 7-8 I was doing sketches already with 1-2 hours of drawing per day on my left, my mother hated the fact id choose to use my left so much. I actually began using my right at the same time as my left so to this just never fully developed the skill.. so I had basically developed fundamentals for it..
7-8 I began cursive and one thing my teacher noticed is I had superb hand writing skills, and curvature too my writing Atleast from her statements and by the age of 12 each one of my teachers was impressed by my writing compared to others.
This was mainly left I quit using my right hand at 11 and never fully developed it, it was there just not fully..
But when I was in 3rd grade I won an art contest, and when I turned 13 I entered art classes by the age of 13 I had drawn 1-2 hours per day while in school and even at home occasionally.. so 1000+ hours of drawing before even taking art classes, my art teacher before reaching school said some of it was okay to decent, I wasn’t the greatest artist but I always finished my art within 1 hr of class.
Some of these arts included taking Garfield from a 1 inch paper and stretched him out and made him a 2 foot giant picture with paint within an hour span of time..
Now I’m beginning to work further, although after my second year of Art when I turned 16 I dropped out of school and quit using my hands to draw but apparently my skills have never left infact I think they improved!
