Biography
Hello and thank you for visiting my website! I’m Emily Walker, the person behind Sketches of Creation. I’m a self-taught wildlife artist from the small town of Purcellville, Virginia. I’ve been drawing for most of my life, but only really started drawing seriously in early 2016 when I was 14. Beginning to draw commissioned pet portraits for friends and eventually working up to create a small business out of it in 2019.
I now focus primarily on creating drawings of Southeastern wildlife that I see locally.
Inspiration
My inspiration to draw mostly stems from nature, it’s all so complex and beautiful. Even the smallest, plainest, most insignificant things in nature declare the glory of their Creator, Jesus Christ.
Sketches of Creation
I had little to do with Sketches of Creation’s start. All I did was draw some squirrels one day. It was my mom that put it on her social media and a friend of mine that saw it and wanted a drawing, then, more friends that wanted drawings. Sketches of Creation is here all thanks to them. I never was even going to pursue being a full-time artist until about 4 years later in 2020. I’ve done much more work towards my business since then, but it still wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for my amazing friends, family, commission clients, and customers.