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About the Artist 

I am 12 years old and I LOVE drawing. I also love learning about space, talking with my friends, playing tennis and I love playing with my dog. My pronouns are she/her.

Galactic Explorations

What inspired me:

I got interested in space when I was younger. It always fascinated me how many things you could discover and find out in just a couple of years or even months. But what really inspired me to discover more about space and why I am so enthusiastic is because I met a guy from SpaceX, Phil, from the Primer team. I loved talking to him about working on spaceships going up to space. I also got more interested when I did the Galactic Explorations Pursuit. Like, I didn’t know there were things called exoplanets and how some were in the Goldilock’s Zone. I also love reading about space and how I can learn so much from one individual planet. 

How I made my drawing on Procreate:

I used Procreate with a stylus pen. So, first I made the top by making a perfect circle. After that I made a straight line going down the middle, and then I made it so that there were two lines coming out of the circle going to the end of the line. Then, I made two straight lines going down. Then, I mirrored the squiggly lines and I finally made the bottom. Then, I made a new layer and I made the galaxies. I basically just looked up inspiration on all of these. Like I really liked some of the colors on some pictures so I used those in my drawing, so stuff like that I did. 

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