MONDAY - 6/20 STAGGERED REPORT TO SCHOOL TIMES
9th Grade ---- 8:15 SHARP
10rth Grade -- 9:30 EXACTLY
11th Grade --- 11:00 ON THE NOSE
10rth Grade -- 9:30 EXACTLY
11th Grade --- 11:00 ON THE NOSE
Advanced Art - Hull Public Feed
Semaj Smith Second Quarter Artwork
For our second quarter project we were given the opportunity to create whatever type of artwork we wanted to. I personally loved the idea of this because it gave me freedom to express my feelings in many different ways and show the many different sides of who I am. I decided to go with a more poetic project this quarter and express my everyday feelings in a poetry portfolio with images of myself that shows who I really am on an everyday basis. I chose to do this type of project because I know there is a secret side to me that nobody ever gets to see and I thought it would be good for everyone to take a look into my mind and see the way I really feel about the things I go through in life. This project is not fully completed yet because I have to take my time and go with my emotions when I write and I know I have more to let out so when I feel like I have shown all the sides of me that I want to show I will print all of my poetry and photos and put them in a portfolio book so that the work can be seen up close.
If I were to do this project differently I think I would try to dig deeper into who I am and try to really get raw with my emotions. I think I was a little scared to let people into my heart and soul with my work this time so next time I would get more real with myself and come to terms with who I am before I tried to let other people know who I am.
In the photos below there are just a few samples of some of the poetry I have already completed and some of the photos of myself that I edited and created to show the sides of who I am. Because my writing is so personal and close to me and how I'm feeling not all work could be uploaded but here's some of who I am I hope you enjoy what you see.
If I were to do this project differently I think I would try to dig deeper into who I am and try to really get raw with my emotions. I think I was a little scared to let people into my heart and soul with my work this time so next time I would get more real with myself and come to terms with who I am before I tried to let other people know who I am.
In the photos below there are just a few samples of some of the poetry I have already completed and some of the photos of myself that I edited and created to show the sides of who I am. Because my writing is so personal and close to me and how I'm feeling not all work could be uploaded but here's some of who I am I hope you enjoy what you see.
Kammii's Second Quarter Art
So in the second quarter my main goal was to basically "go with the flow". In this second quarter, for my art project I decided to just express out all the things that I couldn't seem to say properly with words. For this second quarter, I wanted to just take the essence of me and plaster it out onto a canvas, paper, or what ever else I could find. So Here's a series of pictures that I did and a little background behind a few of them.
Laying in my bed one night during the quarter I had this horrid feeling inside and I couldn't figure out what it was. A friend of mine name Chuck was trying to help me find the words for it but nothing he suggested helped. In the end, i came up with the idea to draw what I was feeling. So i did. I placed my pencil down and then just the feeling that I had stuck on me be conveyed through my pencil's tip. Sense then, every time I have a feeling i can't describe in words, I write it out.
So December 26th was one of my best friend's birthday. As a present i brought a giant foam board and drew a picture for her. Over the time we've been friends i noticed that when ever I started to draw something around her, she usually ended up taking it and finishing it for me. So with this board I intentionally left things uncolored and left certain lines untraced over so that she could finish it and then she'd have something big and pretty that we made together. The reason this is here is because my best friend has been such a huge impact on me and this picture was meant to represent are bond.
Up until about a month ago, all the pictures I've taken of myself have been awkward or my hand has been covering a part of my face due to insecurities but I finally managed to take a picture of my face that I liked. I did a little softening and added a border on a photo editing program i have called photo scape and was very pleased with the end result.
This picture is kind of simple. I was watching the movie called "Happy Feet" and I kept wondering what I would look like as a penguin. So I drew myself as a flightless bird. 
Taahir Henry Quarter 2
I enjoyed the second quarter, because there was more freedom in what could be done. I decided to do some sketches, because its just what I was more comfortable with. I used a sketch book and a couple of pencils. I wasn't sure of what I wanted to do at first, so I just used the first things I saw and sketched them. I started off with some that were simpler and moved on to ones with more detail. Before this project, I hadn't sketched anything in a long time. As I started to get used to sketching again, things became easier. One thing that was challenging for me was keeping things proportional, especially ears and eyes. The last sketch I made is a self portrait from a side view.
I chose to sketch Murdoc, 2-D, and Noodle from the Gorillaz. I left out the fourth member, and did a drawing of myself instead. The album artwork is what lead me to make the self portrait, even though I had originally intended on drawing the fourth member (Russel). I was in the process of drawing Russel when the sketch started to remind me of myself so I decided to turn it into a self portrait.
I chose to sketch Murdoc, 2-D, and Noodle from the Gorillaz. I left out the fourth member, and did a drawing of myself instead. The album artwork is what lead me to make the self portrait, even though I had originally intended on drawing the fourth member (Russel). I was in the process of drawing Russel when the sketch started to remind me of myself so I decided to turn it into a self portrait.
This is before I darkened the hair.
The final sketch.
Dinvil, Sierra A1 Advanced Art
For the second marking period we had the option to create whatever kind of artwork we wanted. Personally I liked this. It gave me the freedom to do some of the things I'm particularly good at without really any limitations. This is different from the last marking period because we were basically given an idea that we had to work with opposed to what were doing this quarter. Looking at some of the projects that are already posted you can see how versatile our projects are from comics to sketches. This marking period is personally my favorite.
For my artwork I chose to expand on a skill that I previously learned in my Freshman year. As a freshman I learned how to print a drawing on a linoleum block, and also carve the drawing out to resemble a stamp. I chose to sketch out an "S" because it's the first letter of my name. I wanted to make sure it was something more challenging and time consuming to sketch so I chose to draw a fancy looking "S" with a lot of detail. I then painted over the linoleum and printed on sheets of paper to make 1 collage of different colors.
If I were to do this project differently I would definitely be more consistent and work on using my time more wisely. However I am proud of the work I am putting up, but I know that if my time was used more efficiently I probably would have had more prints to chose from. Another problem I experienced was not using the same kind of paper for each of my prints which effected the quality of my artwork when I was picking prints to choose from. A lot of them were on different textured construction papers and wouldn't give my art work the effect I wanted them to have.
Overall I am really proud of the piece I produced, and I hope that you like it too.
Sketch:
Outline on Linoleum:
(It's backwards on purpose)
Marks for cuts:
Final Cut:
Final Pieces:
For my artwork I chose to expand on a skill that I previously learned in my Freshman year. As a freshman I learned how to print a drawing on a linoleum block, and also carve the drawing out to resemble a stamp. I chose to sketch out an "S" because it's the first letter of my name. I wanted to make sure it was something more challenging and time consuming to sketch so I chose to draw a fancy looking "S" with a lot of detail. I then painted over the linoleum and printed on sheets of paper to make 1 collage of different colors.
If I were to do this project differently I would definitely be more consistent and work on using my time more wisely. However I am proud of the work I am putting up, but I know that if my time was used more efficiently I probably would have had more prints to chose from. Another problem I experienced was not using the same kind of paper for each of my prints which effected the quality of my artwork when I was picking prints to choose from. A lot of them were on different textured construction papers and wouldn't give my art work the effect I wanted them to have.
Overall I am really proud of the piece I produced, and I hope that you like it too.
Sketch:
Outline on Linoleum:
(It's backwards on purpose)
Marks for cuts:
Final Cut:
Final Pieces:
Toni Marshall Quarter 2
Throughout the second quarter I spent most of my time cutting out the stencil for my project I have about two left. My plans are to spray paint the poem onto the windows. The project is very time consuming and difficult. Letters such as O,R,A and G's were the hardest letters to cut out because in order to preserve the actual shape of the letter you must cut out little rectangles that connected the rest of the paper and the middle space of the letter and cut around it. I had many trails trying to get the correct grove on how to cut neat and with accuracy. There were 15 sheets each containing about 25 letters. By the 3 quarter I expect to be finished this project. I am trying to now figure out a way to preserve the paper just in case I mess up the first trail of spray painting because like Mrs.Hull says" We se you up to fail." I will reflect on what i need to do in order to improve my work and hopefully create a project I am more proud of than now.
Toni Marshall Quarter 2
Throughout the second quarter I spent most of my time cutting out the stencil for my project I have about two left. My plans are to spray paint the poem onto the windows. The project is very time consuming and difficult. Letters such as O,R,A and G's were the hardest letters to cut out because in order to preserve the actual shape of the letter you must cut out little rectangles that connected the rest of the paper and the middle space of the letter and cut around it. I had many trails trying to get the correct grove on how to cut neat and with accuracy. There were 15 sheets each containing about 25 letters. By the 3 quarter I expect to be finished this project. I am trying to now figure out a way to preserve the paper just in case I mess up the first trail of spray painting because like Mrs.Hull says" We se you up to fail." I will reflect on what i need to do in order to improve my work and hopefully create a project I am more proud of than now.
Jessica Hinton Marking Period Two
For this marking period, we were allowed to pick the project we wanted to do. I didn't really know what I wanted to do. It was either photography, or do some drawing. After a lot of thinking, I decided that I wanted to draw the Eiffel Tower.
I drew the Eiffel Tower last year, as one of my brainstorms for the periodic table assignment, but I didn't use that one for my element picture. So, I thought that this time, I would try it again. I liked the one I did last year, but I wanted this one to look different than that. My plan was to have this one set at nighttime, with the stars in the background. I had a lot of inspiration for this project. I think that Paris is a really beautiful place. I've had a picture of the Eiffel Tower that I fixed up in picnik as my desktop picture for a long time. So, I used that, and other pictures I found to help me. I also used howstuffworks.com to help me.
I have not yet finished this. It took me a lot longer than I thought it would to do the sketch. Once I finished that, I had to get the canvas, and then draw it on there. So, now all I need to do is paint the canvas.
Sketches:
In sketchbook
On canvas:
I drew the Eiffel Tower last year, as one of my brainstorms for the periodic table assignment, but I didn't use that one for my element picture. So, I thought that this time, I would try it again. I liked the one I did last year, but I wanted this one to look different than that. My plan was to have this one set at nighttime, with the stars in the background. I had a lot of inspiration for this project. I think that Paris is a really beautiful place. I've had a picture of the Eiffel Tower that I fixed up in picnik as my desktop picture for a long time. So, I used that, and other pictures I found to help me. I also used howstuffworks.com to help me.
I have not yet finished this. It took me a lot longer than I thought it would to do the sketch. Once I finished that, I had to get the canvas, and then draw it on there. So, now all I need to do is paint the canvas.
Sketches:
In sketchbook
On canvas:
Poems 1-Advanced Art
Yelling,
screaming, hitting
Blood slowly dripping down the wall
and face
Bruises all over my body
What did I do to deserve this?
The only thing I did was love you
and try to support you
You were supposed to love me not
hurt me
Day after day, night after night
My body can’t take a lot of pain
My heart is about to burst
From all the anger, torture, and
love you give me
I try my hardest to ignore it
But me trying doesn’t do anything
You still continue to do whatever
you want to do to me
Why I let you do it
I don’t know
I don’t want to lose you, I love
you too much
I want you to change for the better
I know what happened
We went through the same pain
We both saw the same things
Why do you have to do this?
You could express your pain in some
other way
Don’t express your pain on me
I’m slowly falling, breaking,
breaking falling
I can’t get up or get away
Your cries of hate always seem to
find me
Hurt, crying, pain yelling
I’ll feel this pain until there’s
nothing left of me
Just my cries of yelling “STOP”
blowing in the wind
Jesus Jimenez - Marking Period 2
I did this Comic to represent the 23.59% that makes up my life, video games. It's not only amazing what people do to make video games and make those little pictures of bodies move, their dedication is incredible. Anyway, I wanted to make a little tribute to video games in this comic. I intended it to have around 3 chapters, so everyone could read it and be like "I know who that is! I played with him in ____" but that didn't go as planned. In the future, I might keep working on this, it's not the end of this yet!
I started out finding "sprites" which are essentially all the frames it takes for a character to move in any pixel looking game (like Super Mario). They are 32-bit sprites, which means that they allow basically more detail. There are also 16bit and 8 bit, which are waaaayyyyyy old. I used Photoshop to get rid of picture backgrounds, and to cut and paste background and characters into pictures. It seems like it's easy, but finding the pictures and then resizing them is a lot of handwork. It's easier said than done. I used Photoshop because it naturally comes easy to me, it's not hard to use.
I've done sprite comics before, when I was a bit younger. They were bad quality and there was no definite story line in them. Now that I learned how to be a better writer (I sure hope so!), writing the story was the best part of this! I want to make a series with these and put them on a blog and update them weekly, like a page a week. I sure would like to continue this, and hopefully finish the series as I wanted to. So, that's basically it. Video games are a part of me, and although it may be silly to some it's a part that keeps me intact with my inner child. I'm not an addict though! I'm totally one of those guys that's okay with dying in a game just to text back!
I started out finding "sprites" which are essentially all the frames it takes for a character to move in any pixel looking game (like Super Mario). They are 32-bit sprites, which means that they allow basically more detail. There are also 16bit and 8 bit, which are waaaayyyyyy old. I used Photoshop to get rid of picture backgrounds, and to cut and paste background and characters into pictures. It seems like it's easy, but finding the pictures and then resizing them is a lot of handwork. It's easier said than done. I used Photoshop because it naturally comes easy to me, it's not hard to use.
I've done sprite comics before, when I was a bit younger. They were bad quality and there was no definite story line in them. Now that I learned how to be a better writer (I sure hope so!), writing the story was the best part of this! I want to make a series with these and put them on a blog and update them weekly, like a page a week. I sure would like to continue this, and hopefully finish the series as I wanted to. So, that's basically it. Video games are a part of me, and although it may be silly to some it's a part that keeps me intact with my inner child. I'm not an addict though! I'm totally one of those guys that's okay with dying in a game just to text back!
Screen shots of the work I did!
^This is a sprite sheet!^
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I don't want to spam this entire blog with my comic. So I uploaded a .ZIP file on Mediafire, so you guys can just download it there, unZIP it, and read! Enjoy!
WARNING: THE COMIC HAS SOMEWHAT MATURE HUMOR, AND HAS WORDS THAT SHOULDN'T BE USED IN SCHOOL! (But it's not nasty or anything... don't make that stop you from reading!)
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?w6v4t3e6t3qbjlb
But I will post one page on here just for a little preview.
WARNING: THE COMIC HAS SOMEWHAT MATURE HUMOR, AND HAS WORDS THAT SHOULDN'T BE USED IN SCHOOL! (But it's not nasty or anything... don't make that stop you from reading!)
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?w6v4t3e6t3qbjlb
But I will post one page on here just for a little preview.
Alex Johnson Marking Period 2
For Quarter two, I wanted to try and do something new at least every two weeks. Since I like to do a lot of abstract art using photoshop, I made a few things testing out some new brushes and methods. For one of my art pieces, I used a new brush set that mimics the moon. I used this along with a layer of stars for a poster size image of the moon and stars. I further used my other artwork to make new stuff. I had a lot of fun this quarter because I took a lot of peoples' ideas and suggestions to help make my art masterpieces.
For my most important piece, the Silent Wolf, I got the idea to draw a wolf for my friend. I was sketching and retouching my first drafts until I got my rough pencil sketch. Then I carefully traced it with a sharpie. After erasing the pencil from under the sharpie for cleaner lines, I took a picture of it and added color in photoshop. After I did that, I decided to add a moon and stars to the background. To make it easier to work with, I made the moon and stars in a separate poster shaped canvas in Photoshop. After finishing that, I copied the wolf with color onto the moon and stars. Since Christmas was coming up, I wanted to surprise my friend with it by adding in his name. I added some after-effects to the text and cleaned up some edges to finish.
The other main portion of my art time was devoted to an intricate youtube layout. It took a lot of work to make this. First, I had to do a bit of research to figure out the dimensions I would need to make it. Then I had to make the difficult guide lines for the boxes. Instead, after many futile attempts, I got the guide lines from another layout. I then began to add the stuff my friend wanted. After a lot of tweaking with the dimensions, and a lot of time later (10+ hours) I finally had the image perfect. Credit to one of my friends for helping with this too.
The rest of the artwork is just stuff I worked on during this marking period. The wolves are in order of process. Pencil -> Sharpie -> Final Silent Wolf. Then the Moon poster and the manifest of both joined.
To see the youtube layout in action, check out my friend's page: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrWh1sk3y
To see the youtube layout in action, check out my friend's page: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrWh1sk3y
"Thanks a lot. I'm really impressed!" -Mr. Reddy
