Fateme Shahidi is an artist from Iran specializing in color pencil drawing and sketching. An analogy says that the art of sketching is to the picturesque traveler, what the art of writing is to the scholar. Sketches are either taken from the imagination, or from nature. When the imaginary sketch proceeds from the hands of a master, it is very valuable. The imagination of an artist or a painter, is filled with all the elegant forms and striking effects. These, like a magician, are at pleasure with a wave of a hand; bringing before the eye, something magical.
Shahidi follows the trends of hyperrealism in her artworks. Hyperrealism is an art that includes the real world’s extremely realistic surroundings in an unusual, different, and appealing manner that creates a false reality for the audience.
Her art mainly focuses on the sense of minute details. She was this meticulous because she was able to grow her career on her own. She developed her career by reading articles and watching tutorials, which are the best way to help people learn on their own. After quite some time, while focusing on building her artistic career, she also started to share her talents and creativity with other people by teaching them her techniques. This helps her keep up with the trends in the arts industry.
She takes great pride when most people tell her that the expressions and feeling through the portraits she creates, especially the eyes of the portrait, look extremely real and lifelike. She believes that the pandemic was a golden time for her, because it was during the pandemic that she started focusing on art professionally and concentrated on improving her technique and styles. She promotes her works on her Instagram page @_moonartgallery_.
Her message to the fellow artists is, “Reinforce your self-confidence and believe that your art looks like your finger print. Don’t compare yourself with others! Try to be impressive and express your attitude through your artworks.”
Sheila Giovanni is Fateme’s color pencil idol in hyperrealism, but the greatest inspiration she believes, is the future version of herself. The futures is what everyone should believe in and look forward to because it will be able to help us be better than who we were yesterday and try to find new ways to love ourselves more.
Shahidi is an aspiring artist who was able to believe in herself by investing time and effort in specializing her craft. She believes that art is important especially during these days because art helps people to improve their creativity. The time spent making art gives you inner peace and calms you.
