00:00My name is Dalila Misfin. I'm an Ethiopian artist. I came here when I was 18.
00:24Every time I draw something or paint something or do a digital artwork, it's so that it can please me. It's part of my soul and part of who I am.
00:33So when someone else enjoys that and shares that with you, it's a beautiful thing when someone appreciates something you created.
00:39It's like they're accepting a piece of you.
00:42I've never painted before, but during junior year in college, I took elective classes that allowed me to explore.
00:49So that's when I started painting, but I never really thought that I would pursue it as a career.
00:55This digital form of art, it just happened.
00:58Two months ago is when I started. You're kidding, right?
01:00No, I'm serious.
01:03Initially, I had like 5,000 followers based on my drawings of myself.
01:10The first really popular digital drawing that I did was the one of Destiny's Child. It was like one of their album covers that they did way back.
01:17And I turned that into a digital drawing and then it kind of went viral.
01:20I think Michelle shared it on her page and people started sharing it on Facebook, on Twitter.
01:26That's how the followers came. Honestly, I was so shocked.
01:29I love the art that inspires me is from Africa and like the people are what inspires me in my art.
01:36Voluptuous women, thick women, women with a little bit of meat to their bones.
01:41Cause you know, a lot of, a lot of media nowadays just shows you like, you know, Photoshop, Tiny and 99% of the people are now built like that.
01:50Whoever looks at my art, I hope it inspires them. I hope it makes them happy. It makes them smile. That's my ultimate goal.
01:56Five years from now, hopefully God willing that I'll have my own studio to just make artwork for the rest of my life.
02:06That's basically my ultimate goal.
02:09In Black Girl Magic, it's, it's me. Like every single Black girl has their magic.
02:14It's their self-expression of who they are. That's magic by itself.
02:18You have so many things that put you down like in society.
02:21So for you to even exist right now, for you to be making a stand, for you to be living your life in your own way by itself is magic.
02:28So that's what it means to me. Black Girl Magic.
02:31I feel so many people came to you and was the fifth part of my family, not just because of the two other things.
02:39If you log into that, it's not a family, be living your life in a future.
02:44If you log into that, that's not just the massive dream you'd have time to crush the complexities,
02:47So that must be able to be lived by that land.
02:50For me, you can choose your wife and my mother in a smaller country.
02:52Fill in your life in a small country and Jesus, where we're going all aroundозможно.
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