Author: Nicole Tan
Thank you to the artist Seaomnde for joining me today for this interview! She is an artist on Instagram, who does both digital and traditional art.
Q1: Please introduce yourself!
Hi, I’m Seaomnde. I’m a secondary school student, and love drawing for an online community and for family and friends. I started with traditional art, but have expanded to digital art on the platform ibisPaint X.
Q2: When were you first introduced to art?
I was first introduced to art when I was six years old, when my mom signed me up for an art class. I really liked copying things that I saw and drawing them on paper. I liked the Geronimo Stilton books as a kid, so I would copy pictures from them and draw them. I loved coloring things as well, and seeing which colors looked best together and how to pair them in a way that would give an emotion.
Q3: Why do you pursue art? What about it interests you?
I pursue art because I love the creativity involved with it. I love being creative and thinking of my own characters and creating stories for them through art. I also love art as a way to appreciate my favorite shows and characters by drawing them. It’s really fun to reimagine or to draw a character in your art style, and I love the idea of composition as a way of giving certain personality traits and as a way to show different sides of characters.
Q4: What is something unique about the online art community?
When I post some of my art on Instagram, it always warms my art to see that some really enjoy the art that I do, and it’s amazing to see how others may be inspired from the art I’ve posted. I’ve saved some of the comments on my phone because they made me so happy.
Q5: What is a challenge that you have faced as an artist?
One challenge that I have faced is getting a consistent posting schedule. Since I am currently a student, it’s been challenging to balance schoolwork with art, especially since for digital art, I have to draw on my phone since I do not have a tablet. Drawing on my phone makes the art I make take so much longer, and it means that I have use a huge portion of my day if I want to draw and post an artwork. In addition, something else that has been challenging is social media itself. With arts, to gain a following, many have to post short form videos. However, I simply do not have a lot of time to work on making the art as well as social media content and videos.
Part two is now out, read here: https://megaphoneyouthregister.blog/2026/02/23/interview-with-artist-seaomnde-part-two-art-walkthrough/
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