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digital art gallery

This is my digital art showcase.All images and videos on this page were created by me using various free art editing programs on Android and PC.I’ve been experimenting with digital art since around 2015. Most works are based on photos I either took myself or images found online, with varying results.There's also a few silly compositions, pixel art experiments and music cover art. Not every piece I've ever made is in this archive; a considerable part is stored in my Drive archives, thus, not immediately accessible.Click each preview to expand the pictures; alt text is available.

No generative AI tools are used

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about me & this page

Welcome to m4rina's archives and thank you for your interest.My preferred name is marina, and here’s what I can tell you about myself in a few paragraphs:


🎓 Academically/Professionally:I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, with a focus on Education, and teaching degrees in Languages (Portuguese and English), with emphasis on Linguistics. My professional work is centered in Education as an EFL teacher.


💾 Interests and hobbies:My common handle, “m4rina” (or m⁴), refers both to my name and to my four main hobbies/projects (presented in the main page) which are: game archiving and curation, chiptune composing, worldbuilding and digital art.I also dabble in other things, such as hand-drawing symmetric graphisms🔗, and from time to time I experiment with plastic art🔗 and prop-making.Other hobbies include numismatics🔗 (and related collections), speedcubing, writing🔗 (albeit very rarely), collecting old tech and game merch.In general, I just like to study and learn about different stuff and am a pretty praxis-oriented person.


Thank you for reading.

The reward of knowing is knowledge itself

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videogame diaries

Having played video games for as long as I can remember, they’re deeply tied to my sense of self, and constitute my perception of time, space, memory, and affection.The videogame diaries project began back in 2017, on Twitter and Evernote, when I started writing reviews (graded or not) and simple gaming log threads to preserve my experiences and revisit the games I’ve enjoyed.The texts vary in length, depth and quality; I write them mainly to practice my writing and document what I play, not for professional or promotional purposes.The project also serves as a catalog of my collections and archive of played games. That being said, the project pages can be found below, as standalone pages and spreadsheets.

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minecraft diaries

I’ve always had an appreciation for science fiction/fantasy literature and their realms in particular. Since I've always liked coming up with my own worlds and stories, I eventually turned to Minecraft to materialize those worlds through creative mode building and writing.The minecraft diaries is my personal world-building project through which I bring my universes and narratives to life via writing and mostly creative mode building in Java Minecraft. I try to keep up with version updates, but some builds are for older versions.

Click the pictures below to read the series' documentation (descriptions, lore, build update pictures) and download the maps.External Notion websites:

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