A dark, gloomy contrast of pencil combined with coal, dark liquid drips from a man’s head to his cheek bones, almost seen through his thin pale skin. His head is decorated with thorns–his crown. His eyes look up, creating a tense and disturbing facial expression, almost pitiful. Junior Genesis Segovia created this realistic work of art to represent religion using the subject as Jesus Christ.
At the age of 10, Segovia’s cousin introduced her to art. Inspired by her cousin’s unique art style, Segovia started to learn and understand art piece by piece. It took more than four years of scrubbing and shaping her art then developing it into realism, which is the style Segovia has adopted.
“A realistic thing, it takes hours to make,” Segovia said. “You’re not just standing there or sitting there not doing anything. You’re focused, you put all effort into that one piece.”
Realism requires time and dedication, because the artist captures the smallest details, even if the details are barely noticeable in the whole picture.
According to Segovia, her standard time to finish a small, singular realistic piece without any color is about five hours.
“I don’t finish one singular piece of realism in a day,” Segovia said. “I took my time, I carefully sculpted it and day by day I finished it.”
This amount of time is equivalent to the daily average screentime for some people.
According to Segovia her piece “In the darkness” is created to represent manipulation. The art shows an image of a beautiful woman with a shocking expression, however she listens to a dark figure with lifeless eyes, creeping, crawling against her skin as if manipulating her choices.
“I like to draw things that look interesting to me despite not having any meaning behind it. I create when I want and rest when I want.”