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HOST INTRO: Quarantine has driven many to find something to do at home. Yiyuan Mai spoke to a fifth-grader about her newly found passion outside of class and house chores.
AMBI: Sounds of ticking clock and a truck unpacking in the distance.
TRACK: I am here with Mandy Mai in her family apartment in Brooklyn. She is sitting quietly beside the ticking clock and drawing on her phone. She has found a passion for digital art during quarantine and is able to improve her skills at home.
ACT: MANDY: I started off with just starting simple shapes. Watching others do it makes me learn their skills.
TRACK: She says she was inspired to do digital art through Youtube and TikTok. She learns from those videos as she progresses. The quarantine has given her more time at home to polish her skills
ACT: MANDY: Actual art, I always have trouble drawing symmetry, but in digital art, I can just duplicate it and flip it. I can also move things without erasing it a lot.
TRACK: Her love for digital extends to the various forms and possibilities she has on the screen.
ACT: MANDY: It depends on what you like to do. If you like drawing animals and stuff, you don’t really need to learn anatomy since antimony is about the human body and its structures. When you are drawing humans, of course, you need anatomy but you can always draw whatever u like. You can draw a chibi style too. That you don’t need anatomy. There are a lot of styles people have. If people want to draw like this, they can do that. They can draw abstract realism like shapes as heads and color in a really realistic face. They could do whatever they want. That’s another thing why.
TRACK: Hobbies would continue to be explored. Some may find it as a possible career. For Baruch College, I am Yiyuan Mai.