Name: K'sariya
Section you'd like to Judge: Pixel Art
What is your availability like from now through July? It's looking good for judging! I should be able to judge things even if I'm on one of my short vacations.
If selected to be a Judge, would you like your section to be run during the 1st half of PXFIRE or the 2nd Half? 1st half would be best for my vacation schedule!

Please note any experience you have with judging/grading things or with giving constructive criticism that would help your judging:
I'm a (once Graphic Design, now) Interactive Design senior--we give constructive criticism and friendly critique on colleague's work every day! My art education has helped me not only be able to point out what makes a piece of art work, but also how and why it makes it work! I'm also an Expert Curator over in URPG--I curate member-submitted art pieces of all skill levels over there, and I really enjoy doing it. All of my curations can be found listed here, and here's an example of a curation of pixel art that I did there! One of a curator's job is to try to curate the work objectively, without making unfair judgments based on their preference of art style, so I have a lot of experience with that, too. I appreciate all art and art styles, and love looking at them and analyzing them. I love showing examples to give my advice context and a visual reference. I love leaving artists with new techniques to try the next time they sit down with a work! I'm a really positive person, and I try to balance what worked and what didn't in a way that keeps artists feeling good about what they did well, and giving them a clear but flexible path on things they can experiment with moving forward!

Please outline an example challenge or something you might do for your section.
- I've always thought a "create your own Mega" sprite for an existing Pokemon that doesn't have one would be awesome
- Environmental spriting - wouldn't have to be large-scale, but maybe small chunks of a scene or an environment, just so people can flex a bit of sprite art beyond figures!