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Editor's Notes

1. To me, art is not just about getting a project finished, or meeting a deadline, but also the fulfillment of a piece of work that makes me happy to be doing what I am doing. This Is why I do what I do, and why my art is not only a passion of mine, but also a lifestyle.
2. Hi guys, this is my life. I’m a cat lover, a huge dork, a best friend, a daughter, and a student. These are the biggest roles in my life; what really describes me as the person I am today, right now.
3. However, my art has encompassed just about as much of my life as everything else. I love art; I live and breathe it. It’s gotten me through a lot of things, and just as with everything I mentioned in the previous slide, I would not be who I am right now without it. In fact, I would not BE where I am without it either.
4. Since as far back as I could remember, I never really had a place that I considered my true home. I moved 6 times before I was 10, so growing up in different places gave me a ton of exposure to many different types of people. However, I did not necessarily feel like I fit in perfectly with any of them.
5. Fast forward to the last year of high school. I did not know what I wanted to do with myself, I was lost and unmotivated to dig deep enough to find out what I really wanted. I eventually found something that I already knew, I loved art. However, it was that love that pushed me to decide what I wanted to do; to come to school and learn as much as I can about it.
6. I wanted to learn, create, and build on my knowledge. I love all things art, whether it be on a small piece of paper, a canvas a mile wide, the computer, or through the revurbs of my amp.
7. This is who I am. I am an artist. I’m in love with my work, and we’re in a committed relationship. 
8. This was one of the biggest turning points in finding this path. This realization helped me to solidify that this, being here right now, was what I wanted to do. I wanted to put all my time into the thing I already try to put all of my time in to. I want to spend hours tweaking my artwork on the computer, drawing out designs, and perfecting each thing to create something spectacular.
9. Who am I? I have taken on a number of roles, both as an artist and in my life in general. These are those that I consider the biggest roles that have influenced my life leading up to where I am. Firstly, I am an experienced graphic designer, having done work for a number of small businesses in the New Hampshire area.
10. This gave me a lot of great exposure to different types of people through customers, and how to deal with them in an appropriate and timely way, as well as the importance of time management, organization, and deadlines. I also learned a lot about Illustrator and Photoshop while working as a graphic designer, making plenty of mistakes along the way. However it has built up my knowledge of new programs that I would later find use for.
11. I am a photographer. I love taking pictures, both professionally and for fun. It’s a hobby of mine.
12. Nature is one of my biggest inspirations in my photography, and I would bring a lot of my work in to photoshop and improve them through what I had learned as a graphic designer. I also took a few classes in which I learned even more about the program.
13. I am a musician. I enjoy having a guitar in my hands, and while I’m not the best musician, I still love being able to create something out of nothing with my own two hands. It’s an addiction I have.
14. These are my babies, I have collected these throughout the past few years, and I gave up taking a number of things to college with me so that I could be sure that I had these with me.
15. At the core, I am a traditional artist. My first exposure of art, much like any other person, was the kind where you doodle on a paper with a pencil. I loved to doodle and draw, and pushed myself to try other traditional mediums and to learn more and more. I wanted to challenge myself, and I thirsted for improvement.
16. I’m starting to push myself away from an amateur level of art, and I’m practicing all the time to continue improving towards becoming a professional.
17. I am a 3D artist. While I thought that I would never be able to say this with how much I hated Zbrush and Maya when I first began here, I feel as though I’m finally beginning to grasp core concepts, and I’m practicing weekly to better understand each piece of the programs I’m using, to become more knowledgeable in this craft.
18. While still being far away from professional level, I’m proud that I have begun transitioning into the 3D world because this is what I want to do. My passion is passing through the gap between 2d and 3d, and I’m jumping that gap to follow it.
19. I am a crafter. I love working with my hands. Creating is my specialty, no matter what form.
20. Sometimes I find weird things to make art out of. Sometimes it works.
21. I am: hard working. When I know I need to do something, I will get it finished. I will put forth my best effort in everything I do. I like to imagine that everything I try to accomplish is leading up to my goal, and it inspires me to put my best on the table. I am independent. While I can work well with others, I am also quite self directed and am able to stay on task and work efficiently without guidance through every single step. I can take an idea and run with it. I am self motivated. With my goal in mind, I can push myself through most everything that I do, no matter the challenge or difficulty.
22. Basically, everything that I do leads back to this one thing: What drives me? I’m not going to say the “A” word again. I think that, with my love of all of these things, seeing them being implemented into the big screen, as the beautiful graphics and scenes depicted in the games and movies I play and watch are my biggest inspiration. I want to impact people in a way that these things have impacted myself. My work is leading up to the final stage, and I’m prepared to make my way there. I want to be a part of the story. I want to teach people and show people the things that I have learned from my own experiences playing my favorite video games and watching my favorite movies. I want to tell the story with my work.
23. These are some of the programs that I currently work with, and am