I used the first page of chapter 56 of Dickens‘s novel Great Expectations to make a visual poem. I based my poem on the sick prisoner but stripped out many of his personal traits. I did not describe the character’s gender, physical features, or appearance, leaving his image to the reader’s imagination. I emphasized the prisoners illness …
I was surprised to see how the page helped me reinforce the statement in my drawing. I intended to theme […]
For this sketch assignment, I decided to recreate a giant red truck on an open road. I wanted to demonstrate how much the truck stands out in the mundane background, which is why I chose a red truck for this project. Once I figured out how to create an art piece on Photoshop, I […]
Although I am certainly not the type to craft sappy love poems or optimistic views of the world, I did not expect this poem to…
I found this sketch really interesting and different. Normally when reading a page from a book I am trying to understand what the narrator is trying to tell me as a reader. But, with this assignment I was seeing what I wanted to say with the words on the page. This made me look at …
This Human Document or Humument was created by illustrating a page from the book: Ragged Dick, published in 1868 and written by Horatio Alger. The […]
For this assignment, I didn’t draw on the page. I downloaded a picture which could show what the poem said and printed it out. I used the paper knife to make several holes where the words of the poem were on the paper and then put it on the original page. The poem to me … Continue reading A Human Document: Visual Poem
For this assignment, I struggled with the poem and the execution. I used four different pages to eventually make my poem, but also to make the poem readable. My first page was too confusing because I tried to create the swiggly-line style of Tom Phillips. It ended up being unreadable, so I therefore decided to […]
For our final podcast episode, Andres was the producer, I was the assistant producer, and Jake was the line producer. Because Andres was the producer for the episode, he chose the topic we would discuss. Andres picked Philip DeFranco who is a video blogger who has his own news show. Before working on this episode, …
For this podcast, I was the producer and Olivia was the assistant producer. We talked about Philip Defranco as a New Media news source and why so many people trust him to deliver the news. We concluded that an amalgamation of factors were responsible for his success, including his independence in revenue, the fact that […]
