ABOUT
About Jessica Matheney
I'm an American artist, working as a professional pet portrait and wildlife artist, teaching drawing lessons, and a YouTube Influencer.
Living in Utah has its advantages, with beautiful mountains and scenery, plenty of great places to see. I enjoy going for regular hikes and being outdoors. I have pet rats, and have had rats as pets since I was 13. They are wonderful, affectionate and intelligent animals. In 2018 I founded my art business, so to say, Jessica Matheney Fine Art. I initially started out with getting back into drawing with just graphite after about 10 years of not drawing a single traditional drawing, and a long story as to why. During those 10 years however I did loads of digital art of photo-manipulations and digital paintings with photoshop. Back to how I got started in 2018, after drawing a couple graphite drawings to get me started back into what I was so good at once before, then I started recording myself drawing and posting time-lapses on YouTube. Soon after, I decided to give colored pencils a try and was hooked, and from there things expanded to what they are now. The mediums I work in are colored pencil, graphite, and soft pastel. I love creating natures realistic details for keepsake, drawing pet portraits, animals, and wildlife. I offer time-lapse video's of my drawings, as well as art tutorials and tips through YouTube and offer drawing lessons on Patreon. I hope to be a bridge for others, discovering and learning techniques to create, consistently providing knowledge, tutorials, and resources to other learning artists, or to satisfy those who are curious. |