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Featured artist:
Nyla sanders

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nyla sanders

She/her - Junior 
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3 words to describe Nyla : creative, hardworking and a perfectionist. 

“I would advise others to take their time and practice different techniques to perfect their painting skills." 
Why do you make this type of art?
“I initially started making digital art because I wanted to try creating a webcomic. While that webcomic never came to fruition, I still became enthralled with the digital landscape and wanted to better my skills in that media.”

What does your artwork represent?
“It usually represents some form of message or story depending on how I’m feeling. Of course, there are also pieces that are just for fun with little meaning.”

What inspires you?
“I’m mostly inspired by the stories in the shows that I watch. And racial/ social issues that I care about and understand.”




​Is there a connection between the process of making your artwork and the artwork’s message?
“At times, yes., Say if I’m feeling sad in that moment, I feel like that may show in the artwork’s message.”

What does your artwork mean to you?
“To me, my artwork means expressing my thoughts and opinions in a creative way. In some ways, it’s a stress reliever.”

​What do you like most about being an artist?
“Being able to bring my ideas and concepts to life.”

How long have you been creating art?
“I have want to say since I was about 3. I’ve been an artist ever since I started drawing in preschool.”


​What is the hardest part of being an artist?
“The hardest part is not being overly critical of every piece. As a perfectionist, I’m often quick to point out the wrong parts of a piece rather than being proud of the end result.”

What is the easiest part of being an artist?
“Finding some form of inspiration for art. It can be online or from real life., I just like to think that you can find some form of artistic idea anywhere.”

How long do you plan on pursuing artistry?
“As long as I can. I would like it to be a skill I have with me forever.”

What is your dream project?
“My dream project would probably be having my art on an album cover.”

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      • Stay Skinny!
      • Stranger Things: Kill Your OCs
      • "Does He Know?": Do YOU Know Why Paul Dano Is So Great?
      • Creator vs. Creation: Mothers, Daughters, & The Generational Divide
      • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: How Snow Really Falls
      • Know Your Rights: What To Do Around Ice
    • CREATIVE WRITING >
      • Impermanence
      • Am I not American Enough?
      • The Moonlight Behind The Blinds
      • Acceptance Letter
      • I WIsh I was Your Son
      • Due East
      • Once For The Moon
      • turn off the lights, close your eyes, and pretend i'm a real boy
      • Broken Nail
      • Midnight Confessions
      • The Pencil In My Hand Does Not Move
      • Chloropromazine Chapter 1
      • One
    • Cooking Corner
    • Artist Corner
    • Media Reviews >
      • TV SHOW REVIEW: Beastars
      • MOVIE REVIEW: Spider-Man: Brand New Day
      • SONG REVIEW: "Lover, You Should’ve Come Over"
    • Sports Panel >
      • Boys Swim: Senior Highlight
      • Girls Swim: Senior Highlight
      • Girls Basketball: Senior Highlight
  • Featured Article
    • I'm Not Cute Anymore: The Adultification of Black Girls
  • Teacher's Corner
    • Teachers Corner: DeVaul
    • Teachers Corner: Ejzak: How to Combat chatGPT? Embrace the Same Anti-Authoritarian Teaching Practices We Should’ve Been Doing All Along
    • Teacher's Corner: Mr. Hazzard's Love Letter To Brooks
    • Teacher's Corner: Gordon
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  • Archive
    • 9.25 >
      • Two
      • Young and Pretty
      • Chimeras: Growing Up in Majority-White and Majority-Black Schools
      • My Favorite Color Used To Be Pink
      • Good Mother
      • Cancel the Mouse: Why New Disney Sucks
      • Is Hope the New Punk Rock?: Superman Movie Review
    • 10.25 >
      • Ignorance Is PURE Bliss
      • The Subjectivity of Creativity: How Wrongful Interpretation is Dangerous
      • Petty Games
      • If You're So Wise, Why Do You Come Off So Passionless?
      • How Animal Farm by George Orwell Still Speaks Today
      • How To Train Your Hyper-Realistic Live Action Reboot
      • Absense of August
      • Art fight Collection
    • 11.25 >
      • The Overconsumption Cycle
      • My Experience Being Painfully Insecure.
      • An Age-Old Question
      • They Hate Us Cause They Ain't Us
      • Transgressions Against the Father
      • Watership Down
      • The Black Phone 2: More is Less
      • How Fish Became Gods
    • 1.26 >
      • The Concept of One Individual
      • Deathbot Chapter 3 Part 1
      • Deathbot Chapter 3 Part 2
      • Deathbot Chapter 4
      • Police & Black Americans—The Battle for Civil Rights
      • White Hair Braiders
      • The Dust Under My Bed
      • Popular (Wicked)
      • “Carpe Diem, Seize The Day.” - A Media Review On Dead Poets Society
      • They Could've Made Anything, but They Chose This Book
    • 2.26 >
      • The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love
      • Deathbott Chapter 5
      • Is it Possible to Separate Art From the Artist?
      • Take Things Seriously
      • Blood-Covered "Love"
      • Sunflower
      • Iron Lung Review
      • Night In the Woods Analysis: The Hole At The Center Of Everything
    • 3.26 >
      • My Beautiful Spring
      • I, Who Have Worn Many Faces
      • And I Wonder (Kanye West)
      • Danganronpa Trial 3's: They Suck
      • Deathbott Chapter 6
      • YOLO OR YËAT
      • It's time to start indulging
      • Anybody can be Spider-Man
      • Arrow Through The Chest
      • Creativity Is A Burden On The Creative
      • Dear Jane Doe
      • Invisible Thread
      • What Could I Be
      • Ramadan
      • Weather Boy
    • 4.26 >
      • Invisible
      • Strength in Words
      • If He Loved Me
      • The Pain That I Love
      • Love is Not For People Like Me
      • ULTRAKILL (Media Review)
      • Firebreak
      • Penny
      • Deathbott Chapter 7
      • 5 Misconceptions of Islam
      • Is Love Childish?