Taking art classes has not only served as a creative outlet, but also as a way to release stress and have fun. While I have taken Essentials of Art, Digital Art, and 3D Modeling, I would say that I enjoyed modeling the most. While I have never artistically modeled before taking the course, I do have some experience with CAD and frequently modeled and 3D printed engineering materials throughout my high school career.  While the switch to VBrush was a very different experience, I found that I enjoyed it as much if not more than the engineering work.

Although from an outsider’s perspective, computer science seems to have little to do with art, I have encountered a plethora of scenarios where I’ve had to marry the two. In freshmen year, I worked on learning a little bit of Arduino programming and, through leveraging some open-source code, I created a very janky but functional dynamic back-light for my monitor. It changes what colors the LED’s produce depending on the exterior colors of the screen to provide a more immersive experience.

My background of web development, human-computer interactions, and digital art also led me to be the main front-end designer for a bunch of projects. I’ve done a wide array of work ranging from creating a scalable and professional UI for the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Portal used by New York State Information Technology Services, to creating a customer-intuitive interface for my Software Engineering application.