My name is Anna Kate Marshall, Nice to meet you!
My name is Anna, I live on the second floor. If you hear something late at night, some kind of trouble, some kind of fight, It was just me doing a thing! |
My name is Anna Marshall and I live in Durham, North Carolina. I am an aspiring artist with an already well developed natural artistic talent (or so I have been told). My favorite medium is oil painting as it has also been the medium that has shown the most improvement over time. My dream for the future is to become a respectable name in the art world as well as being known for something great.
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How I got started on the pathway of Art and Game Design
Born and raised in North Carolina, I have lived here practically my whole life. |
Durham has been my home for as long as I can remember. Up until 2012, I have never lived for an extended period of time in a different place besides the house that I was raised in. My world really changed when I moved to a different country that spoke a different language in a house that was over 200 years old. But that is beside the point, you are probably here to learn about what started me on the pathway of Art or Game design.
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For Art, let me start of by telling you that there was no "start". All throughout my life I have always been interested in art. There are a couple of events that have really helped me in my struggle to become a better artist that could be seen as stepping stones of progress. Most of them are small, so if i were to go into detail, I would only name the big ones. However, since this is not my life story, I will not go into detail on any of them just yet... Maybe on a later date if I ever update this page.
For Game Design, what started me out would be the first time I played a video game. The first time I played a video game really only got me interested in playing video games, but you cant be a game designer without first being interested in games, am I right? When I go to high school and my world exploded with opportunities, I was offered the art pathway* of game design. Being an 8th grader at the time, I only really looked at the first word and became interested.
*At Durham School of the Arts, students are required to take 4 core classes, 2 language credits, 1 gym credit, and a 4 credits in a specific pathway, which has to do with your specific art (band, dance, art, webpage design, game design....)
How I work
I work more like a humming bird than a human being, in little bursts of energy. Then I spend the rest of my time procrastinating... |
First of all, I must say that my own mind and creative process works completely different from that of anyone else I know of. If a normal person were to step into my head at any given time, they would either be highly confused, deeply disturbed, laugh hysterically, or go insane. Just in a nutshell, I have very strange and diverse thoughts, not in a bad way or anything, just strange. First of all, on the imagination side of things (the area of my brain that is used the most), I have many different worlds where things work completely differently from that of our own. All of these little worlds are basically unwritten stories that will forever have a place in my own head, with one world dominating the rest. This bloated imagination world is probably the one that is closest to being written, but being myself, it may never happen.
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Now, when I am making art, my mind is absent in the equation. Usually my head is occupied with something else when I am making the actual art, like music, or my little fantastic worlds (or math class). However, that is not always the case; when I am doing something that requires my full attention (something like 3D modeling or coding), or if I have gotten into a sort of grove, I work vigorously, with the music or other stimulant becoming a background noise that I almost forget entirely about. When working vigorously on a piece of artwork, I can easily become very agitated when disturbed, so don't throw off my grove man!