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Animated Illustrations: “The Lost and Forgotten”

In this assignment, the student is required to select an article and illustrate 3 simple illustrations that pertains to the article. For the article:

Learning Math At Home: 4 Tips for Parents : Parenting: Raising Awesome Kids : NPR

Math anxiety is real, and I hoped to encompass the feelings of hopelessness by conveying the overall nature of the phenomenon. Forgetting equations, numbers, and losing our train of thought are all prevalent in the article though there are more important contributors to the issue. Parenting and growing up are both two important segue-ways that can help others going through the same issue.

“Lost”

“Lost“, This speedy animated image encompasses how fast thoughts are perceived, resulting in stumbling. Teddy, resembles the innocence of growth while scars taint its consciousness.

“Forget”
“Decay”

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Twine Game: Go Go Kitty Tower

In Go Go Kitty Tower, death is imminent.

The goal of this game is to climb higher than your ambitions as you work your way to the end. This type of ambition can only be soothed by your progression through the story as you try to piece together why you’re on a journey for glory.

Through Twine, a web-based story builder, I was able to create several outcomes throughout the game by creating very convincing text. Interactivity includes a name, days, and hidden variables that you’ll soon figure out to be essential to the story.

Interestingly enough, the IP and research are original, but gain aspects through other games as well.

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“Wanton” Addressing Stereotypes and Diversity

For this project, we are to compose a design based on our prompts from our previous assignments and respond to the questions in regard to our work.

  • Of the drawings you created, in which did you consciously address race or ethnicity?

None, in the previous assignment there is no intentional use of race.

  • When you did address it, why and how did you address it?

At no point.

  • If you did not why not, and how might you address it if you were given another chance?

I hadn’t realized that was an option , but if I could then I would consider that as an alternate style or narrative to use when illustrating.

  • Which drawings were the most stereotypical, and why do you think so?

In assignment 2, it’d have to be the illustration involving the ant and the smaller bee. Just because those were two different kinds of insects.

  • How might you make them less stereotypical if you were given another chance?

By creating a diverse party based on the prompts provided.

For my prompt “Chicken[s] in the big city”, I took it at face value by illustrating a giant chicken in oil pastel within a lesser detailed city. For ironic purposes, there could have been much more to expand on, but for the sake of capturing a chicken in such a setting I gave this chicken power. As it’s illustrated you will see it throwing tornadoes, but for continuity reasons, there will be no lightning or crackling storm. Instead the chickens massive body creates a gravitational pull and makes it the center of this piece.

The title of this piece, meaning deliberate and unprovoked is meant to convey the chickens unprovoked violence against people who may have lived in this city.

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Exercise 2: Super Class-time Sketchbook Assignment Monochrome Edition

Following 16 prompts from the instructor, the student is required to sketch or draw 16 or more ideas that consist of a similar theme. In the directions, 6 drawings must include things within the United States while the other 10 must speak to a following scenario. The theme is insects, specifically the apian kind.

The prompts are as shown here:

1. Farmer

2. The Farmers

3. Farmers at a farmer’s market

4. Farmers at an equipment auction

5. Family farms

6. Industrial farm

These directions speak to the following scenario

1. Kindergarten graduation

2. Retail shopping as therapy

3. Wealthy people holding garage sales

4. Online dating during a pandemic

5. Chickens in the big city

6. Motorcycle maintenance

7. Unfulfilled dreams of boat ownership

8. Overcrowded subway

9. Lack of public transport

10. Marriage between two people with political differences