Illustration
A Coffee A Day
A coffee a day keeps the sleep away, or so they say. This piece is meant to highlight the life of an artist and their struggle to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working towards their goals. From personal experience, it is difficult to maintain... More
Illustration
Blank Pages
As long as I could remember, I was an artist. In childhood, art comes so easily. There are no limits to a child's creativity. I recall days of spending time at my grandmother's home where I would do nothing but draw, flying through stacks of... More
Illustration
Imposter Syndrome
When you look up in a sky full of stars, you find your eyes drawn to the brightest of them all. But when you look at a sea of people, which ones shine the brightest? It is so easy to fall into imposter syndrome. The feeling of never living up to... More
Illustration
Starting Over
Art has so many components. Line, shape, colour, texture, form, and value. Often, an artist will sit at their drawing desk and revise an idea over and over. Then, at the end of it all, you are left with nothing but a blank page. My goal was to... More
Illustration
Starving Artist
The starving artist is a common trope conveyed in narratives around an artist's life. Most times starting out in the art industry is difficult. Art begs to be perceived. Trying to ‘make it’ is like going unnoticed in a room full of passing-by... More
Other
The Lives of the Modern Artists
The Lives of the Modern Artists tells our stories. In the 16th century, Giorgio Vasari wrote a series of biographies on artists in his lifetime known simply as ‘The Lives’ (Italian: Le Vite). When reading this text, I came to the realization that... More
Work by
Sofia Sciortino
Comic Book Illustrator
“‘The Lives of the Modern Artists’ is a series of works depicting everyday events from a creative perspective. Using slice-of-life illustrations with fantastical aspects, the viewer is transported...” [More]