Q3 Proud Assignment

In Quarter 3, my two classes were graphic arts and P.E. An assignment I am proud of was a project I did in graphic arts. The project was to make a poster for your assigned teacher and topic. I got Ms. Nembhard for fashion textiles. There were a lot of steps completing the poster, and I am really proud of each step. In the assignment, you had to treat the teacher you were assigned like a client. My first step in the assignment was interviewing Ms. Nembhard and asking her questions about how she wants it to look. I was nervous at first interviewing her but it went by fast and I got all the information needed. I was proud of myself after because I did it without messing up or being confused. I then went and sketched 8 different design ideas as a rough draft. I was so proud of this part of the assignment because I could not believe I did 8 rough sketches for design ideas in less than a day. All of them were different and it was only from asking a few questions. At first, it was tricky coming up with 8 different sketches for one poster from a few questions but I actually did it! After that, I got the sketches approved by Ms. Nembhard and she chose her favorite ones. Since she chose two sketches, I decided to find a way to combine them by putting some elements in another. Once I figured out how to combine them, I did a final, good copy sketch and made it into one drawing. I moved on to the final rendering where I did the final design digitally on adobe illustrator. The final sketch was like a reference and all I needed to do was make it on illustrator using its tools. I got to choose its color scheme, patterns, and typography text (font and text). It took me about a week or so to finish. I am very proud of this entire assignment on my fashion textiles poster. Mainly because I thought it would be so difficult. From interviewing a teacher and doing 8 sketches. I am really proud of how detailed it was, the layout, all the elements involved, and how it looks aesthetically pleasing. Doing the digital aspect of this assignment certainly helped me put what i learned in graphics to use for another person. I especially liked how you can see on the poster a sketch at the bottom and then when you look at the mannequin, its a work in progress of that sketch. I liked how i added some textiles materials and the hands at the sides show that fashion in for everyone, which was the message she wanted to give. Also the fact that I did the entire poster with a few questions and my imagination from scratch is what i think made me feel accomplished in the end.

The 8 design sketches:

Final Digital Copy:

Break the Fake (Part 2)

I decided to look for an article about scrapbooks. I will be fact-checking this article to see if it is real or not. This article was about black history archives that are in trouble. It was also claiming that a 19th century Philadelphian filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials. But now, underfunding and physical decay are putting archives at risk. Here the steps I took…

  1. The article was on a website called “The Atlantic”. I have not heard of this news platform before so i decided to look more into it.

2. I did a Wikipedia search on the Atlantic and found that it is a magazine and multi-platform publisher. It focuses on literature, political science, foreign affairs, and lifestyles. It has a good reputation and has proven to be a trusted source.

3. Now that I trust the source of the article, I still wanted to verify the information. I found the author of the article and her name is Cynthia Greenlee. I searched her name and instantly found many websites about her. I clicked on the first website about her and found that she has a masters degree in journalism, a PhD in history where she specialized in African-Americans, gender, and the law. She is well known journalist and scholar, so I trust the author of the article.

4. I tried to search up the article on snopes.com but nothing showed up. Still, I wanted to fact-check the information.

5. Lastly, to fact-check the information on the article. I decided to search “black history archives are in trouble hoax” to check the validity. I saw that many other reliable news platforms reported on the story.

To conclude this, the story is in fact TRUE.

Quarter 2 Proud Assignment

In quarter 2, my classes were french and social studies. A project I am proud of is a presentation I had in french. The project was to research about a francophone country and create a powerpoint presentation. If you did not know, francophone means a french speaking. I chose a small country named Burkina Faso. The entire presentation is typed in french and the titles had to be questions about the country. I am proud of this project because I used what I learned so far during that time and applied it to my project and also because I typed the entire presentation in french by myself. I did not use google translate but only used word references, dictionaries and most of all my notes. Working on this presentation helped me understand french better, put what I learned into use, helped me read french better, and typed french sentences in my own words. I am very proud of the mark I got as well and in the end it made me realize how much I really learned and the amount of french knowledge I know. My presentation looked good too and was very organized, informative, easy to understand, and contained pleasing pictures. Also, researching about a francophone country of my choice made it more interesting as I was learning more about francophone country cultures.

Passions

I have many creative passions and one of my favorites is scrapbooking. If you did not know, scrapbooking is perserving, presenting, and arranging phtotos in a form of a book or card. It is a way of memeory keeping your favourite pictures and pairing them up with art materials such as stamps, stickers, washi tape, magazine cutouts, and coloured paper. Scrapbooks originated from England in the 15th century, although modern scrapbooks have not emerged until the mid 1800’s. I love scrapbooking because i get to be creative, customize it however i like, and I can store and record special events with decorated pages so they are aesthetically pleasing. when i do my scrapbook pages, i print out pictures, this is where photography also comes in because i do them together. i mostly take photos on my phone and then print them out. from there i would tape or glue it into a blank page in my notebook and write about that memory, like a journal entry but it looks more aesthetically pleasing. i write what i did, what happened, highlights of that event, etc. It is a fun, creative way to document moments in my life while crafting. Scrapbooks to me are also more than just photos glued on paper, but its pages are designed to enhance the content of the picture, to tell and express the photo and why that was a special event or moment. If possible, i add a souvenir /token like for example a ticket, pressed flowers, ribbons or reciept. Scrapbooking helps me make that memory more special and creative than just taking a photo. Overall, scrapbooking is a passion of mine because it is a creative outlet for me, it displays and personalizes fun memories, it motivates me to take photos more, and it helps tell stories through photos!

Woodworks 9 – Foot stool

Last quarter, woodworks 9 was my first class. the first project that we built was a foot stool.

I am very proud of it because building it required using almost every single machine in the shop and it was a challenge to learn. I have never worked with so many machines and I never knew how long it would take to finish a foot stool. it was really satisfying seeing the whole thing come together little by little, from the legs to the platform and smoothing it out. every step of making it was really fun and it turned out exactly how I wanted it to look. what i like about the stool is smooth finish on the top and around the edges, how clean and shiny it it because of the finishing touches, and my foot stool also has marks on it that remind me of the times in class with my friends. here is what i made…

 

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