These paintings were created during my Design 1 class when I was attaining my Associate of Arts. This was essentially the first time where an art class relaxed the rules on assignments. At the time I did not know what to draw about, or what kind of style I should pick; so I defaulted to my hobby which was video-gaming. "Game Zone" is an oil acrylic painting on poster-board, and literally the first painting I ever made. It's a self- portrait using an iPhone camera and then printing out the photograph to use as reference for the painting. I switched out the background with a bunch of colors to simulate a gamer being in the "zone" drowning out the background. As for why there are cuts on the canvas, it was a design consideration to afford my piece greater portability since my portfolio carrier was too small; though in hindsight I should not have mutilated my artwork like this. If I ever decide to publish "Game Zone" I would need to recreate it on an undamaged poster-board. The untitled painting is a recreation of a screenshot an online acquaintance took of her in-game avatar posing for a cinematic shot in a "captura scene" in the third-person-shooter action RPG "Warframe". I took some artistic liberties with this painting, and switched out some parts to accommodate the limits of my brush since it was a broad-head and could not paint fine details.