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Self portrait by Jessie Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Digital artist\u00a0Jessie Young<\/a>\u00a0learned as an adult she had a condition called “face blindness,”\u00a0meaning her brain processes faces differently than typical\u00a0brains and, as a result, she has a hard time recognizing people. “When I learned\u00a0this it felt\u00a0like discovering that everyone around me had X-Men powers,” she said.<\/p>\n

In response to this revelation, she started studying faces, really looking at them. This led to doodling faces, which led to drawing faces. She now is about halfway to her goal of creating 100 vector drawings<\/a> of faces, a challenge she invented for herself, in part to show her art students at\u00a0Cambridge Rindge and Latin School<\/a>\u00a0that she can walk the walk\u2014that she works hard for her craft, as she expects them to do. Young also teaches at Putney School<\/a>\u00a0during the summer. She spoke about how her drawing muscles are getting stronger because of\u00a0her mission to create 100 drawings to\u00a0Adobe Create Magazine<\/a>. She uses Adobe Draw on her iPad and Adobe Illustrator on\u00a0her Macbook Pro. “No filters, no tracing,” she said, “just marks on a surface, and from time to time I hit ‘undo.'”<\/p>\n

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Williston students will recognize the subject of this image, by Jessie Young, as art teacher Dan Roe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Young earned her B.F.A. in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. At the tail end of her college career, she picked up a stylus and dove into digital art. She also holds an Master of Science in Art Education from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She will show\u00a0her images at the Grubbs Gallery in January. A reception with the artist is planned for January 6 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

In order to meet her goal, she works during spare moments. “I have to squeeze in drawing time whenever I can,” she said. “I do it on the bus, during lunch at school, when I play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends (because I’m a giant dork). Sometimes I post photos of the weird places I draw on my Instagram<\/a>. My favorite ‘I draw everywhere, man’ moment was when I found myself completely alone in a movie theater this past September. Since there was no one around me that would object, I just drew on my iPad and watched The Big Sick<\/em> with my huge tub of popcorn and my feet across two seats. It was glorious.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digital artist\u00a0Jessie Young\u00a0learned as an adult she had a condition called “face blindness,”\u00a0meaning her brain processes faces differently than typical\u00a0brains and, as a result, she has a hard time recognizing people. “When I learned\u00a0this it felt\u00a0like discovering that everyone around me had X-Men powers,” she said. In response to this revelation, she started studying faces, … Continue reading Jessie Young Brings a Drawer’s Eye to Digital Art<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-news","category-grubbs-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}