We were lucky to catch up with Sophia Green recently and have shared our conversation below.

Sophia, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

I don’t know if I would call myself self-taught or traditionally taught. Its might be a little bit of both. I to become really interested in art at age 7. I studied every drawing/art book in the public library. I watched tv solely to study the art style. I finessed my parents to let me go to art school. I went to school for animation. I graduated in 2019. But learning is a lifelong journey so I am constantly taking online courses.

A lot of times when artist are self-taught. They don’t have much direction on what they should be learning. So they end up just learning things that they find interesting. For me I was really interested in characters, and different art styles. But my art never looked exactly how I wanted it. It wasn’t until college and I took a figure drawing class that drawing characters became a lot easier. And the really catapulted my skills.

I know many people may say this. But mastering the basic foundational skills in drawing can really help in the long run.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I was born and raised in Southern California. I always had a love for art, drawing inspiration
anywhere – from comics to books to magazines to movies. Being a soft-spoken individual, art has been a voice for me throughout my life as another means to express herself. Many of my art pieces and characters are an extension of who I am and allows mw to be confident and expressive in myself. I chose this art form, to breathe life into something that has none, to find myself and lose myself, to exist in a world of silence, to evoke a feeling in others hopefully inspiring them to find themselves.

I found myself through my art and through my brand Greenstreet. Greenstreet started with me making art about my childhood, to visualize hidden challenges of growing up in that environment. I grew up in white suburbia, as an awkward, skinny black girl, with bad vision. And making this art became cathartic for me. I used my younger self as a kind of muse. I proud and humbled that this character that I created has connected with so many people and their inner child.

You can check out the Greenstreet comic on Instagram @greenstreet2002. In the future I plan makes it into a newspaper comic and share my stories with everyone.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Many of my art pieces and characters are an extension of who I am and allow me, and they allow me to be myself. This is why I am in the art field, to breathe life into something that has none, to find myself and lose myself, to exist in a world of silence, to evoke a feeling in others, to know myself. Art is more than merely a sequence of drawings; it is a sequence of emotions that has manifested. Even though my art is a visual medium, I strive to create art that connects with my audiences’ souls rather than their eyes. I invite anyone that will to come on this journey of knowing how I breathe whether it be a hum or a pant, to embrace that, and to simply breathe.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

Being quiet.
I grew up in a big family. Im a middle child. I grew up in a white community. So it was safer to be quiet. It stopped you from getting in trouble. To not be seen. To be described as behaved. It’s was just safe. But this didn’t help when making friends or discovering yourself, or speaking up for yourself or finding your voice. Maybe I found it a little later than I should have.

I went to college and up until that point my art had been solely about skills. How well I shaded this, how clean were my lines, how realistic can it make it look, but after you have those skills, whats next, there has to be more. I made art I thought people would like, what my teachers would like. I was quiet so my art was also quiet. But slowly through art I’ve learned to find my voice through my art. And I’m not afraid to be heard anymore.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://sophiascribbles.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophiag624/

Image Credits

I, Sophia Green, own everything.