{"id":1826,"date":"2018-02-01T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.icanvas.com\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2024-10-23T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:19:59","slug":"our-scholarship-winner-victoria-cacho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/our-scholarship-winner-victoria-cacho\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Scholarship Winner, Victoria Cacho!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since our inception, iCanvas<\/a> has donated to schools and children in need. Last year however, we decided to try something new: launch a scholarship to support the next generation of artists. Our first scholarship gained over 400 submissions from talented artists across the U.S., and we are ecstatic to announce our first-ever scholarship winner, Victoria Cacho! <\/p>\n\n\n

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Victoria\u2019s submission, Flower Gal,<\/em> was created using a drawing tablet. \u201cSome of my favorite things to draw are flowers and cute outfits,\u201d Victoria told us. \u201cI was really fascinated by how striking and dramatic gray, white, black, and red look as a color combination\u201d and says she was inspired to create Flower Gal<\/em> thanks to the pattern of a woman\u2019s dress when she was at church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to learn more about Victoria, and what her scholarship winnings will help her do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do you go to school, and what\u2019re you studying?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m a student at the University of Southern California, class of 2020. I\u2019m majoring in art (emphasizing in graphic design) and minoring in Japanese! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do you love art?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t remember a time when art wasn\u2019t a part of my life\u2014for as long as I can remember, I\u2019ve loved drawing, painting, crafting, composing and listening to music, writing fiction and poetry\u2014all of the creative fields. I love thinking outside of the box, being creative, and going against the grain. I\u2019ve also always been a relatively reserved person. Often it\u2019s harder for me to speak up for myself or have a voice, especially in large groups or around strangers, so I usually draw or doodle in my sketchbook to feel more at ease. I love art because it helps me convey my thoughts in ways other than speaking, which I\u2019m not very good at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you choose to submit this piece?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I actually do a lot more traditional illustration since I\u2019ve always kept and filled up sketchbooks and notebooks with doodles and drawings. I only started doing digital illustration about 4-5 years ago when I got my first drawing tablet, but I\u2019ve come a long way since then. In a way, choosing a digital piece for my submission reflects my growing confidence in the medium itself.<\/p>\n\n\n

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My preferred mediums, or at least the mediums I\u2019m most comfortable with, are just basic pencil and paper. While I do like using materials of higher quality and am not against buying brand name supplies, I think that as long as you\u2019re enjoying yourself and are making something you like, you can use any medium, even if it\u2019s just a crayon and a napkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being said, I do a lot of origami, watercolor painting, and graphic design. I also took a sculpture class and am currently taking a comics class. It\u2019s always good to experiment with a lot of different types of art. You learn to think in other ways and that enriches your own practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What or who inspired you to pursue art?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t really say that someone<\/em> or something specifically inspired me to pursue art. It always felt more instinctive. I recently learned from my mom that a lot of my relatives on her side of the family are actually designers, performers, artists, and the like, so now I know I must have gotten it from somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Want to see more of Victoria\u2019s work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Victoria manages two separate instagram profiles to share her art: one where she posts about her finished products<\/a>, and another where you can see her doodles and sketches<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet our first-ever iCanvas Art Scholarship winner! Learn more about Victoria Chaco\u2019s process, inspirations, and her winning masterpiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[78,2796,7071],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-icanvas","tag-scholarship","tag-victoria-cacho","tag-charity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34912,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/34912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}