The family here is everyone but me who lives in our suite (rooms 210 and 212). BUT, something strange has happened: there are doppelgängers of ourselves coming after us! Not only that, but they’re undead too!

I made this while watching the opening ceremonies of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics (which were GORGEOUS and AMAZING), and it was so much fun! Getting my suite together to take these photos also made for a hilarious Friday-night event. And I HAD to replace myself with my best friend, Ron Swonsowl (who, as you may or may not know, can open portals to mirror dimensions) because he just BEGGED me to be included.
I knew I wanted to put in a fourth-wall-breaking element and have the people (and owl) in the panels interact, and with that I attempted to make a 3-D effect by having the doppelgängers crossing into the gutters (spaces between the pictures). The overall editing process took a while, using a whole hod-podge of layers and color modifiers and drawing tools, but I am very proud of the end result!

My dog, Checkers, came to visit me in Fredericksburg! If you hear me talking about my puppy, I’m really talking about my twelve-year-old shi-poo (shi-tzu poodle mix). Even though I’m more of a medium-large sized dog person, I love Checkers to bits. While the train station isn’t on campus, this is were I’d go to meet my dog as she disemBARKS the train from Chesapeake (with her luggage full of treats).

Making this image was quick and simple (except that the first time I did it my laptop died and I hadn’t saved yet). I could have spent a significant amount of time making it perfect, but I decided to settle when I had to redo the entire thing.

I got a picture of the luggage on google (I looked up “dog luggage” but then went so deep into google I cannot find the image again). I had to distort the luggage with a perspective tool to look more realistic. On top of all that, I edited the contrast, saturation, and other color settings to better fit Checkers and her luggage in with the background image I took at the train station.