DA3 Final Project Artist Statement

As I'm writing this, I'm thinking back on all of the projects I've done for this class over the past year and how much I have grown as an artist. Before taking this course, I thought I was quite tech savvy but this course just reminded me of how much I still have left to learn. If I could, I would always take this class to further my knowledge on digital art and just to have fun doing it. This course has been the ride of a lifetime and even though my senior year has been one of the hardest over my college experience, I feel like this specific course has helped me grow into such a better artist and person in general. For this truly final project of my college career, I wanted to be able to look back on a piece that I fell in love with a year prior and completely revamp it into something new. The meaning of this piece for me is that I take a work that I did before, where I was in such a bad place mentally and felt like my heart was exploding from my feelings to now where I can completely change the meaning of the previous piece; and even though life is still hard and my feelings are still very much so prevalent, I can look on the better side of things and make them into something beautiful. My heart may still be exploding, but at least something bright, kind, and meaningful can come from it.