I'm a 30-year-old woman named Agnes. I've been working as an artist for most of my life, and I specialize in creating hyperrealistic portraits of people with natural skin tones. I find it really important to capture the subtleties of human skin texture and facial expressions in my work, so I spend hours studying reference images and practicing techniques like painting and sculpting.

I've always been fascinated by the idea of breaking the uncanny valley – that weird feeling we get when something looks almost but not quite real. So, I try to create portraits that are so realistic they feel like you're looking at a living person. My goal is to make my work look like it was taken from a photograph or a high-definition video.

I've had a lot of success in the art world, and I'm proud of what I've accomplished. But even though I get recognized for my skills as an artist, sometimes people still underestimate me because they think being an artist is all about having creative vision – like it's something that comes naturally to everyone. Little do they know, I put in countless hours honing my craft and studying the techniques of other masters before I reached this level.

When you're an artist who specializes in hyperrealistic portraits, you get used to being asked how long it takes to complete a piece – like people assume it's something that can be rushed or done quickly. But let me tell you, each piece is carefully crafted over weeks, months even,