For most people, art projects may take only a few days or weeks at most, but for one creative freshman, her project is still in the works after three years. Freshmen Kailey Korth is an aspiring animator and artist who spends most of her free time working on concepts for her comic: Project Uprising.

“I’ve been working on my project, “Project Uprising” for around three years now. It’s been quite a journey,” Korth said. “I’ve been developing this story for a while, and it all started out with these characters that me and my friend made, they were fan characters for a game, and then at one point when I was in 7th grade, I was like, ‘what if we took these personalities, and put them in their own world?’ We started developing this story out of it, and it’s honestly become one of my favorite hobbies of all time. Even if it’s been three years and I only have one page finished, it’s not necessarily about getting the project finished, it’s more about taking the time to really develop the story and the characters, and really just enjoy what I’m creating.”

Twin sister Kendyl Korth, has seen her hard at work during this process.

“She works really hard, she’s in her room a lot, like drawing and animating her characters, and she’s really good at it. My favorite art piece is probably that she made a phone case once, and it looked like a sky with a sunset, so that was really pretty,” Kendyl said. “She’s pretty secretive when it comes with her comics, I know she’s working on one. I’m really proud of her because she works really hard and has a lot of fun doing it. Her comic is called project uprising, and she’s been working on it for three years.”

In order to get her ideas flowing, Kailey has a system she uses.

“Whenever I decide that I want to continue my story, I’ll normally just get some scratch paper, or if I have a sketchbook on me, I’ll use that,” Kailey said. “I’ll just start drawing, either a new character, or a new place to go, or a new thing to do, and start drawing my characters in that place.”