Draft:Ares Łukianowicz

Early life Ares Łukianowicz was born in 2000 in Northern Ireland. His family was quite poor and broken due to his mothers greed. His father was not in the picture when he was born and his mothers new husband begrudgingly adopted him in 2005. Both parents did not work but instead relied on state benefits. Ares had two step brothers later on.

Łukianowicz showed an early talent for drawing; a neighbour, impressed by his work gifted him with paper and art supplies, at the time a luxury item for a poor family. In the preschool period, he was seen to be able to draw with both hands. He also had a talent for music where he was able to play most pieces by ear on a keyboard.

Łukianowicz left home for his grandparents house at the age of 20 as he was an abuse victim at the hands of his mother and stepfather.

School Life Throughout his high school years, he relinquished music and art as he was beginning to take an interest in media and story-writing and he was spending more time writing fantasy stories than he was on his school studies. One teacher in high school in particular urged Łukianowicz to pursue media as a level three at a local college. After completing his final year in high school, he was unsure of a path to go down, he had no idea of what he wanted to do as a career but followed his teachers advice and enrolled in a media studies course. He ended up leaving the course as he did not enjoy it as much as he had hoped. By this time, he had began to play ice hockey and was inspired by some of his coaches so enrolled onto a sports coaching level three in a local college. Here, his storywriting was set aside and he florished into a competent sports coach. He then enrolled in a sports science HND as the previous course had awakened an interest in biology and how that can be adapted and trained. At this time he began to use his newly acquired coaching badges to take up a voluntary position at a local sports club he played at (Ballymena Vandals) and coached there until it closed its doors in 2023.

Ares spent a few years building an impressive record of CPD (continuing professional development) courses which included horticulture, epigenetics and body massage amongst other things at the age of 20. He began to experiment with airbrushing and before long began receiving artistic commissions from local goaltenders to paint ice hockey goalie masks and other canvas based commissions.

Łukianowicz’s illustrations began to give him a regular income. He was able to buy a violin to continue his musical interests, and his first camera, which was a Canon EOS 700D. He took pictures of mostly nature and animals, and also regularly used it to compose his drawings. At 23 he enrolled onto an Art course in a local college as the time he spent at his grandparents house as he put it “reset his mind” to revert back to his creative self.

Łukianowicz has created a learn to draw page to help people discover and prosper at the hobby - https://www.facebook.com/fineedgeartslearntodraw/