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I'm born blind. Only visual/tangible art (I don't know correct terminology) I've really done is sculpting clay.

If you ever decide to make a Youtube channel, make sure to post it here so that you could get a sub from me :)

OP There area lot of visually impaired artists on Reddit if you look for the subject of blind or visually impaired I've seen a lot over there who get very close to their work and and do some awesome painting if you're a member of Reddit you're not ready. I'm sorry Instagram I mean I said read it I mean Instagram there's a lot of artists over there who have very low vision and do some incredible painting I haven't seen very much sculpting yet but there's a lot of painting going on over there.

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I am now 70 years old and things that I was able to do as a child a young adult and older adult middlebage growing older etc, has diminished over the years. I have ROP and low vision and one eye and 95% blind in the other from birth. Developing cataracts as well as large floaters have narrowed what I can do. Right now I have been doing cross-stitch on size 11 a i d i a cloth. I can see close up and so I hold my work how about 2 in Iowa and I'm careful not to stare my face. Eyewear glasses 2 help protect my eyes as well as correct the astigmatism so that I can see at least five feet away from me after that things get pretty blurry. Depending upon what crafts for art you like to do and you have started some of the things already and have some knowledge really helps with what you'll be doing in the future. I tried different media for painting drawing coloring as well as now using a tablet to draw with a stylus pen on the tablet surface and that's connected into my computer where's a monitor set to zoom in with alpaca fire or I guess it's firealpaca and I have used paint application on windows so transferring my skills from paint to firealpaca has gone pretty well I can do abstract as well as fill in drawings that are already constructed that I find in Pinterest. Have never gone beyond grammar or primary type clay or any sculpting media basically because that hurts my hands but I think if you are doing things like with fimo clay where you can flatten and use cutter say cookie cutters to make things like two dimensional objects such as a flat flower that is not as hard to do bad getting the female clay to be soft was really difficult for me the other part I could do. I have done a lot with plastic canvas and I get the at least amount of holes per inch which is about 7 and had done that for quite a long time with yarn pretty much like doing needlepoint as you do a slash in one direction. I have done some freeform painting as well as fill in the places are paint by number in primary School. I've done some simple felt projects and did a little embroidery on felt as well as sewing on beads and buttons into a design such as a Christmas tree. so there's also things that you can do perler buttons they do have larger ones now for primary and the standard ones were a little too hard for me to navigate because they were just too small for my hands so I have problems with manipulatives that are way too small the small beads that I used on my fellow we're pretty difficult so I switched over to the buttons which cells being at least 1/2 inch were easier for me to pick up and negotiate. I can't take it anymore because it's late for me but I will be glad to answer my questions and share my experiences. I have a blog and which all my tutorials are there 4 people who are visually impaired or not visually impaired which described in great detail how to do the project. Good luck and happy crafting.

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I lost my sight quite suddenly at the age of 14. I had already made up my mind that when I was older, I wanted to study graphic design, animation, film, CGI, and things of that nature.

I ended up learning four instruments and studying audio production in college. I knew that whatever I did, I still had to create and since doing something visual was no longer an option, audio and music just made sense to me.

I do love three dimentional art though! I wish I could make pottery or sculpture etc. Hearing explanations of drawing or painting techniques doesn't do anything for me these days as I have no way to process/enjoy something like that but if I have something I can get my hands on and feel, then that is awesome.