I started this project with high hopes, I had several great ideas, but in practice seemed to fall apart. I originally wanted to do a piece on competitive gaming and that desire to win that everyone has, then I changed to trying to colorize some of my own hand drawings, but ultimately I decided to create a mash up of several of the characters I have drawn over the years put them in a similar environment on a page and that would be my piece.

However I did run into some struggles on the way. While drawings and scanning the images in went rather smooth I ran into a issue on trying to find a focal point for the whole image, so I eventually decided to inverse the color on all my drawing to give them a new feel, but kept the controller its original drawing making it stand stand out in the foreground.

Overall one of my favorite pieces to work with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxAabW7JfTQ

This is one of my favorite videos on the internet and I share a deep connection with it. Since then videos released the community has improved but at the time it was as bad as he describes. The desire to win is a powerful thing and I want to bring out the kind of emotion the video does

This project started out a bit tricky for me, I was having trouble coming up with an idea until I eventually decided to stick with one of my favorite sports, disc golf. I did a whole lap around a private course in Boone called the Spine. Taking a picture if every spot the disc landed.

Afterwards in photoshop I turned each picture around inside the disc and put them on a overlay filter. It created a perfect image around the disc and outside the disc from the size of each picture sticking outside of the edge. Last thing to do was lean up the inside of the disc add a silhouet of someone playing disc gold and then milk in a bit more white to add balance. 

For my project on the cyclical nature of things I decided to take it plainly and see it as a continues circle, so I decided to play a round of disk gold in my backyard. I took a picture each time my disc landed and pointed it at my next destination. The images itself lead you into one large circle until you are back at the start once again and it repeats forever.

This final project started with high hopes but slowly started to go off the mark, but eventually I managed to achieve something I enjoyed. The idea behind the picture is horror, the mimic chest, and then Slenderman. As time goes by in the image video distortion and static becomes the major focus of the image. Portraying the idea behind Slenderman because video tape is destroyed if he is being filmed.

The major struggles of this project were the black, milking back clarity and getting it to print correctly. Levels were adjusted and a special type of paper was used to stop the blacks from bleeding so heavily.

"What appeared to be a chest filled with treasure comes to life as it grows long, glistening tentacles and a number of sharp teeth." - Pathfinder

The concept idea for turning a small wood box into a mimic chest was rather easy to come up with. Mimics have always been one of my favorite fantasy monster of all time and one of the most terrifying, but the actual application has become tricky trying to photoshop in monster like arms, and eyes and to make it look like it is blending in with the chest. A lot of color alteration and the burn tool has been used in trying to make the transformation seamless. Next on the list is to add its tongue, teeth and possibly a body to make my version of the mimic a bit more accurate to the original idea