Tasanee, A.K.A Andarsia is a Taiwanese-Laotian-African-American artist from the United States who specializes in the art styles of semi, hyper, and surrealism art. She first began her art journey in 2014, aged 4 years old and has been drawing for 10 years ever since. As a child, she had a "wild imagination" and initially drew a variety of ideas including fictional portraits depicting her characters, scenes straight out of her imagination, as well as perspectives that she remembered from her dreams. It was only until early 2022, aged 11 that she decided to pick up the styles of realism, in an effort to build intuition and learn the basics of art herself out of an inspiration that had planted after observing many famous realism artists' works. While she practiced realism, she had almost right away fell in love with the art style because of how lively she found the resulting art, and thought to one day apply that style to her imagination to generate life, as if you were experiencing the scene for yourself, or as if the person were to actually exist and is alive.

Primitively, she had an art style of her own that can be described by an "Anime-cartoonish" approach and would always free-hand her art.

"Guidelines didn't always work for me. I have been free handing for my entire life, it always seems to turn out better whenever I draw the way I'm comfortable with." - Tasanee

This free-handed technique was preserved through her practices of realism, however, it was also the first time in many years to where she would apply guidelines in her art to train her eye of perspectives. Replicating photographic references, she appeared to learn incredibly fast the photo-realistic style by merely observing photos, timelapses of artists progressing through an art piece, and by simply making mistakes. These efforts were all made without the help of an art school or a teacher.

One of the favorites that Tasanee had in drawing realism was the art of animals, whether it be cats, tigers, or leopards. She adored animals and found it to be so satisfying adding each stroke to the bigger picture, or more-so an illusion of an enlarged fluffy, fur animal onto her paper. She enjoyed it far more than she enjoyed drawing portraits of people. This was especially done with soft pastel, where adding highlights, blending, and generating fur was made easier.

As she quicky improved, she eventually persuaded her parents to allow her to create a social media presence after witnessing multiple artists she closely followed be abruptly discovered internationally. During the early summer of 2022, at 11 years old, she began multiple social media accounts run by her parents for a chance of getting exposure for her artwork. Out of the many videos she posted across platforms, a handful of them gained traction, contributing to her social media presence and led to her art reaching an international audience. With a small amount of recognition and a multitude of support, she had also received hate comments out of disbelief and people attempting to scam her out of her services; "You're not 12." "You're lying for clout!" "Nice AI generated art, what AI did you use?" "Stop tracing and stealing art." So, she posted videos of her drawing from start to finish proving that this was indeed her art, drawn by her.

Despite the negativity, she pursued building a social media presence with her art and is currently finding ways to showcase her skill via art contests and awards. A notable achievement made by Tasanee was winning the NRA 2022 Youth Montgomery Wildlife Art Contest grades 7-9 and had her art published in a magazine. Tasanee also wants to represent the conservation of wildlife through her animal art out of her love for animals by participating in art competitions hosted by organizations that advocate for the protection of wildlife.

Tasanee's goal with her art is to showcase the beauty captured in all aspects of the world, project her imagination and thoughts, as well as to imitate the uniqueness of wildlife and nature that can't ever be replaced to motivate people to protect Earth's treasures.

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