For this piece, I wanted to show one thing I've always been captivated by and given tons of focus and time towards: Making music. In this piece, I isolated myself and the computer with various masking methods, along with applying some Patch tool effects to my hair and beard to make them less shaggy. Then I added a glow and drop shadow to make it pop out. For the background, I took the full original image, and added a Gaussian Blur, a slight Mosaic pixelation, and a comic book styled dot pattern.