Hello, my name is Natasha Rich; I’m a senior at Blue Mountain Union, and am taking a two hour Gaming, Animation, and Web Design class at River Bend’s Career and Technical Center. Ever since I could pick up a crayon I’ve been drawing, and constantly striving to improve my work. I used to work in a realistic genre but I could never seem to get my work to look the way I wanted, then my best friend to this day showed me an anime called Fruits Basket and I was completely captivated by the delicate, fragile looking images. So I started working in that genre instead, hoping that maybe it could help me improve my work. My older brother was the first to join the Gaming class and showed me all his work he had made; I joined it knowing that it would be the perfect class to make my skills soar. Since then, my work has improved immensely. I still strive to make my work better and that will never go because I will always want to make my art the best it possibly can be. Even as a child I knew I wanted to be an artist, and since then my dream has only become fiercer; now that dream has adapted into being either a character designer or a tattoo artist.