Kicki is a Chinese-born, Berlin-based YouTuber, artist and model. At 24, she has over 130 thousand YouTube subscribers and over 280 thousand Instagram followers, she’s modeled for huge brands and in one of the hottest name in the Berlin fashion industry. But this wasn’t always the case. It took her quite a while to get to where she is now.

Kicki’s current career isn’t anything like what she had planned for herself. In high school, she wanted to study engineering, but her teachers thought she wasn’t good enough and took the wind out of her sails. Instead, she enrolled in business school, which pleased her parents – but she was miserable. She didn’t see herself going into the business world, and was lost and depressed in college.

Eventually, she mustered up the courage to tell her parents that she was leaving university and moving to Berlin. Her parents weren’t completely on board with her plan, but she was an adult and had to make her own way in life.  

The move was just what she needed. She started modeling for big companies like ASOS, traveling the world and working on her art. Her YouTube channel, where she shared her art and talked about her daily life, became hugely popular. Something about her effortless chick and beauty made her a natural star. Today, she’s mostly famous for her unique makeup looks that she shares on Instagram as well as for her modeling work. She travels the world, meet interesting people and being true to herself. IT took a while, but now she knows who she is.

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“There are very few people with disabilities in the fashion industry let alone the catwalk so when the opportunity came up I didn’t hesitate,” she said in an interview with Create & Cultivate. “I knew it would be a way to break barriers and help open doors for others by showing it is possible.”

“People often assume that I’m an extremely positive person; the truth is I’m quite the pessimist,” she added. “But I’m very goal-oriented and ambitious. I think what often keeps me going is knowing that I can’t change the past and the future is not guaranteed, therefore I have no choice but to make the best of the present.”

In addition to being a model, she’s also taken to wheelchair basketball, rock climbing, and running, proving that she’s indeed making the best out of the present. Check out her Instagram page for a daily dose of swag.

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To create her miniature models she uses a wide array of materials, from cardboard and foam to wood and paint. Recent models have included a town, neighborhood, lake, theater, doctor’s office, and church, all made with amazing precision and care.

“Typically I don’t know exactly how the model will look in the end,” she said in an interview with wertn magazine. “It’s a feeling out process to try to get something that exists only in the imagination (and is sometimes quite murky) into the real world. There is a lot of exploration and play. I don’t do any preparatory sketches – for me, the 3D model is the sketching process.”

“While working with tiny pieces that often slip frustratingly from my fingers, I am reminded of the delicacy and vulnerability of the world I am creating, and this summons empathy for my subject,” she wrote on her personal website. “The clumsy inadequacies of miniatures help me to convey a sense of artifice and distance. I try to paint the scenes in a way that feels like a believable world, but an alternate, fabricated world.”

Check out her tiny worlds and detailed paintings in the gallery below.

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Kicki is a Chinese-born, Berlin-based YouTuber, artist and model. At 24, she has over 130 thousand YouTube subscribers and over 280 thousand Instagram followers, she’s modeled for huge brands and in one of the hottest name in the Berlin fashion industry. But this wasn’t always the case. It took her quite a while to get to where she is now.

Kicki’s current career isn’t anything like what she had planned for herself. In high school, she wanted to study engineering, but her teachers thought she wasn’t good enough and took the wind out of her sails. Instead, she enrolled in business school, which pleased her parents – but she was miserable. She didn’t see herself going into the business world, and was lost and depressed in college.

Eventually, she mustered up the courage to tell her parents that she was leaving university and moving to Berlin. Her parents weren’t completely on board with her plan, but she was an adult and had to make her own way in life.  

The move was just what she needed. She started modeling for big companies like ASOS, traveling the world and working on her art. Her YouTube channel, where she shared her art and talked about her daily life, became hugely popular. Something about her effortless chick and beauty made her a natural star. Today, she’s mostly famous for her unique makeup looks that she shares on Instagram as well as for her modeling work. She travels the world, meet interesting people and being true to herself. IT took a while, but now she knows who she is.

The post Kicki Left College to Become a Social Media Icon appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“There are very few people with disabilities in the fashion industry let alone the catwalk so when the opportunity came up I didn’t hesitate,” she said in an interview with Create & Cultivate. “I knew it would be a way to break barriers and help open doors for others by showing it is possible.”

“People often assume that I’m an extremely positive person; the truth is I’m quite the pessimist,” she added. “But I’m very goal-oriented and ambitious. I think what often keeps me going is knowing that I can’t change the past and the future is not guaranteed, therefore I have no choice but to make the best of the present.”

In addition to being a model, she’s also taken to wheelchair basketball, rock climbing, and running, proving that she’s indeed making the best out of the present. Check out her Instagram page for a daily dose of swag.

The post This Model Owns Her Disability With Pride appeared first on PlayJunkie.

To create her miniature models she uses a wide array of materials, from cardboard and foam to wood and paint. Recent models have included a town, neighborhood, lake, theater, doctor’s office, and church, all made with amazing precision and care.

“Typically I don’t know exactly how the model will look in the end,” she said in an interview with wertn magazine. “It’s a feeling out process to try to get something that exists only in the imagination (and is sometimes quite murky) into the real world. There is a lot of exploration and play. I don’t do any preparatory sketches – for me, the 3D model is the sketching process.”

“While working with tiny pieces that often slip frustratingly from my fingers, I am reminded of the delicacy and vulnerability of the world I am creating, and this summons empathy for my subject,” she wrote on her personal website. “The clumsy inadequacies of miniatures help me to convey a sense of artifice and distance. I try to paint the scenes in a way that feels like a believable world, but an alternate, fabricated world.”

Check out her tiny worlds and detailed paintings in the gallery below.

The post Amy Bennett Creates Tiny 3D Models, Then Paints Them On Canvas appeared first on PlayJunkie.