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Playing With Fire

8/21/2021

I've been curious about fire flow arts for awhile now and I finally decided to take the plunge. After extensive research into safety procedure I created my very own FIRESWORD. All caps!

It was AWESOME! The whoosh of the sword as you swung the fire around was mesmerizing. I'm already planning when I can do it again... hopefully with two FIRESWORDS next time.

Campaign one-shot poster

7/11/2021

Decided to draw a poster for the first campaign our characters completed. Looking forward to drawing the poster for our current campaign.

D&D Characters

6/15/2021

I drew all the PC and one NPC for our campaign. About to get these printed out and can't wait to physically hold the drawings. As of this post we are all level 7 with the goal of reaching level 11 by campaign end.

Think 'n playin

6/15/2021

First year I went to PlyThink! Aside from the heat it was pretty cool. I didn't really film that much because I was too busy participating in all the various classes but here's a look at what I did film...

"Week 2"

6/14/2021

Days 7-14 of the 30 day drawing challenge that I hope to complete sometime this year! The prompt for each picture is in the caption... some interpretations of the prompt are closer than others.

Week 1

12/16/2020

I've decided to get more into digital drawing by doing a 30 day challenge. I'm not sticking to the 30 days strictly but my goal is to complete it no matter how many days it actually takes ha. Below is the "1st Week's" worth of photos with the prompt in the caption.

Racing the Sun

10/31/2020

I never thought I’d be the type to wake up at 5 am just to watch the sunrise, but apparently, I am because one morning I found myself staring my car and heading off into the dark. Step one, get out of the house: accomplished. Step two, race the sun. We started off a bit later than intended and on the drive there I could slowly start to see the sun waking up for the morning. I was worried we’d miss the sunrise. At the rate we were going it seemed like it’d be a nail biter. I could see wisps of pinks appearing in the sky before we even reached the parking lot. Once on the trail, I was tempted to start running but we were distracted at nearly every turn by glimpses of the sunset between the trees. Shutter fingers clicking away we made our way along calling out every few feet about a new discovery. And then we reached the overlook.

With so much emphasis on the sunrise, you’d think the color of the sky would be what blew me away but that wasn’t nearly as impressive as the mist. It was everywhere. Pictures fail to capture how expansive it was. It made me think of looking out an airplane window and seeing the world beneath you through the clouds except, this time my view was not limited to a tiny window. There was one particular mountain that had the trees arranged just so that my overactive imagination was able to envision a far off castle floating in the sky.

Eventually, the sunrise came to an end and after several moments so too did our moment on the overlook, there were more trails to hike. Looking back one last time at my imagined castle I hiked on into the unknown.

Japanese Garden in Fall

10/23/2020

I destroyed things. It was fun!

8/20/2020

One of my out of state friends mentioned how much fun she'd had at a rage room so I started looking into one near me. Unfortunately, I couldn't get anyone on board to go with me so I decided to just make my own. Oddly when it was free I managed to get a few people to show up, ha. I think my favorite part was trying to destroy the bed frame. That sucker just wouldn't break! Overall it was a lot of fun and I may or may not do it again in the future.

Painted Stylized Video

8/2/2020

I recently heard about this program called EbSynth. It allows you to make a stylized still image and then make your video look like that stylized image. I was quite impressed with this program. I used EbSynth to make the video below of a sunset and accompanying poem. It was my first time using it and it wasn't perfect but I think most of that was user error. If I worked with it longer I'm confident I could make even better footage. Hopefully, I can come up with more ideas to take advantage of this program.