"Sacked" (2005)

One of my first Photoshop-driven mixed-media works as a fine art photography student at RIT's School of Photographic Arts & Sciences. Outside of regular curriculum, I found a little bit of time to be graded on elaborate pieces of fan art, such as this Naruto-inspired series. The colored-pencil drawings were scanned and pasted onto the film scans in Photoshop, whereas back in high school I'd cut out the actual drawings and glue them onto silver-gelatin prints (which my college professor actually thought a more compelling process.)

To those who haven't heard of the ubiquitous Naruto, and are unclear as to why I'm being attacked by five of him, get thee hence to Google. During the early 2000s, Naruto was the most popular serial manga in the world, and commands the lion's share of shelf space in underground aisles of bookstores over a decade on. For millions of readers worldwide, including me, every volume release is a nail-biting event.

Naruto is ©Masashi Kishimoto.

Naruto's trademark attack: Art of the Shadow Clone (romaji: 'kage bunshin no jutsu'). Depending on his chakra level, he can multiply himself almost endlessly, 'til he gets tired. Unfortunately that won't happen soon enough to save me I'm afraid...

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