Alexis Ramirez

Hi there!

My name is Alexis Ramirez. I'm a college freshman who is pursuing art as a career. I have been drawing seriously for about seven years but have been working digitally for three.

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Throughout middle school, I drew in sketch books for fun or relaxation. But in my sophomore year of high school, I took a digital media foundations class and everything changed for me. I learned Adobe Creative Cloud and soon adopted digital art as my primary medium. I started drawing large illustrations with bright colors. I enjoyed how colors added energy to my art pieces. Within a year, three of my pieces were displayed in the winter art show at school and before COVID hit, two pieces were selected to be displayed in the Denver High School Visual Arts Exhibition. 

   During quarantine, I began playing online video games and fell in love with game art and the potential I saw in this field to become a concept artist or splash art illustrator. These career options in the video game industry aligned well with my digital work. I began illustrating high fantasy pieces, especially drawing women and mythological creatures. During the spring of Junior year, I volunteered for an internship at Art Street, where I experimented with animation in After Effects. This pushed me into a new medium and caused me to think differently about how to approach space and size in projects. I learned to trust myself while creating new digital artwork. At the conclusion of the internship, the Art Street director referred me to a local artist who commissioned me to produce a digital animation on Denver’s downtown clock tower. This animation ran through all of June 2021 and was seen by thousands of people strolling down Denver’s 16th Street Mall at night.

   Now that I am back in school, I can communicate with and be around art teachers that have inspired and helped me improve my art. I am working in a variety of mediums such as canvas paintings, collages and starting a large-scale mural painting. I look forward to attending art school where I can be surrounded by art teachers, staff and student community of artists, who are dedicated to the profession.

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