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Picture this: rural Luverne, Minnesota. I was obsessed with art and video games from a young age. For as long as I can remember, I was an avid artist. As a child, I drew constantly, my hands covered in marker. I would draw on MS Paint on the family computer. Even in school, I wanted to express myself through art. Admittedly, I put a lot more effort into art than I did with other subjects. I took just about every art class that Luverne’s school provided. I would paint, draw, airbrush, and even Photoshop, and I loved every second of it. I knew I wanted to pursue something in art. It was going to involve video games in some way. That is the other thing that has consumed my life. Unfortunately, that didn’t pan out, and I was left pondering what came next. Some introspection later, I remember my time with my graphics arts class. Maybe it didn’t have to involve video games. I could point my artistic skills somewhere else.

Getting accustomed to Adobe software was not an issue. I already had Photoshop under my belt. My Photoshop experience might not have been as refined as it is now, but at least my foot was in the door already. It was only a matter of finding how to communicate effectively with design. I ended up learning a lot more about this. I was sitting in a box, and this was stepping out of that box. Viewing it from different angles, new ways that I could communicate through my art. No longer was it pretentious what-ifs. Every design has a meaning, a message that it attempts to communicate. My favorite part is doing that while still finding that balance of making something visually appealing.