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Lisa Vega
Learn how the love of art began for Lisa Vega and the path that led to the present. Search This Site: Lisa Vega's New Career:I have been busying myself with owning and illustrating for my small business Anime-Me and Anime-Me Portraits. Some days are filled with stress and headaches while others allow me to breathe and relax for a few moments. Yes it is very hard work, but I do have some help. Thank heaven I am not alone! I love my people that deal with all that “stuff” that I don’t have the time for.Web building is a fun new activity that I have become accustomed to. I have always been a quick learner and I am glad of that. Plus having built a couple of computers has helped me to understand the basics of functionality. I may not be an expert, but I cannot say my knowledge is limited when it comes to technology. Lisa Vega's Past Careers:I have too many interests. That I believe is my downfall. I want to do it all, but there is no way I can. It also takes me awhile to decide on what my focus should be put into.Here is a list of things that I have done: cashier, sales assistant, freelance illustrator, independent consultant, telephone interviewer, research assistant, freelance window display painter, technical support assistant, freelance writer/editor, and a promotional/advertising assistant. I also was a freelance tutor for these subjects: math, physics, psychology, grammar, philosophy, economics, biology, and, of course, art. It would be easier to say what skills I lack. My subjects that are wanting include: Political Science, Sociology, Geography, and Health Science. I am glad to say though the lowest grade I ever received in college was a “C.” Lisa Vega Reflects How it all Began:I was lucky that I decided to remain an artist with all of my outside interests. I always loved to draw. I can even remember my first experience of putting a pencil to paper.Flashback: It was a sunny day in the mid of summer of the forth year of my life. I was never one to enjoy the outdoors too much. My sister, age seven, lay on the floor with a pad of paper before her and a pencil in her right hand. I looked over and said, “What are you doing?” Her gaze lifted off the page and fell upon my eyes. She smiled and stated simply, “Drawing.” “Drawing?” I questioned. She nodded as she turned back to her work. A moment later she paused. “I can teach you if you wish.” She patted the ground next to her. “Come and lay down.” I shrugged and lay beside her. She placed the pencil in my hand and turned to a clean sheet of paper. “Okay, let’s draw something,” she said and bit her lip in thought. “How about a person?” “Okay.” I stared at the sheet as if an image would magically appear upon it. My sister took my hand and guided it for the first few strokes. “We start with shapes not lines,” she said as we began. “You won’t draw stick people on my watch.” And that stayed true. I didn’t draw a stick figure until I was in high school and became lazy. High school was also when I took my first art class. My teacher had asked me where I had drawn before and if I had had a private tutor. I merely laughed and thought, “Well… does my sister count?”
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