For sketch six we were asked what was in our bags. So in my bag I have 4 books and some AirPods! Two of these books were what I took home because I needed to read them during the break while I was gone. The other two are books that I was given in the hospital. All of them seem to be interesting in different ways. I find it funny because such a broad spectrum of books is covered. Everything from big guy beating up bad guys (Reacher) to depressing comics.
Now the question arises, is this a good representation of me as a person? The answer is no. While it is very transparent, it is not an accurate. representation. As scholarly as I am I do not carry 4 books around whenever Im going from place to place. I thought it would be funny to just display what was in my bag after coming home. If I wanted it to represent my personality, Im not sure there would even be a book. With that being said, this sketch is almost sarcastic. I dont know anyone who would actually carry four books around at all times. And if there is a person that does that they probably have a very strong back. In that regard a person would be led to believe that I DONT read so maybe it is a good representation of myself. This sketch. has gotten too meta.
For this weeks sketch we were asked to make a triptych comic which is a three panel story. I was pretty stumped on what to do for this one for a while. A three part story was hard for me. Not enough to develop a super in depth backstory but still enough to get in a comedic or weird aspect. I also took my hand at drawing which Ive been doing more of as Ive been trying to create my comic so this was a double trouble situation for me. I dislike the mornings and that feeling when you first wake up so thats where the idea came from. Then I decided to just have fun with it. I gave the kid a weird dream scenario. Somethings off from the beginning but you cant really tell and then boom the reveal. This one was a lot of fun in the end. Very different from what I usually do but I liked that.
Link to original assignment: https://engrd101f25.davidmorgen.org/sketches/sketch-5-triptych/
For todays sketch I decided to try my hand at using some editing tools on Pixlr and I created a Microcone! I originally started off thinking about doing a sunflower with a microphone handle but when I looked up microphone I immediately saw the vision of an ice cream cone and a microphone combined. The name adds points as well. Discovering tools on Pixlr was definitely fun but frustrating, this took me longer than I would like to admit but I like the finished product.
Hello everyone! For my sketch today, I decided to sketch the notes that I took from my Political science class. The original notes can be found here if you would like to see my strange note taking methods. I actually found the process to be very useful. A lot of these terms and concepts are things that I have to memorize for tests and as my english professor likes to say “we are all to some degree, visual learners.” I found the process of making the sketches to be helpful in remembering as well. Similarly to how writing notes makes them ingrained in your head, making these pictures makes it so that I think of the visiual whenever I think of the concept. Maybe Im more of a visual learner than I thought!
Link to original assignment here
Fore my Sunday sketch (get it) I decided to create a golf scene using a leaf. I originally intended to use the leaf as either a moon or a cricket bat but I decided that a comically large golf club was funnier and so my sketch was born. I had no Idea of what I wanted to do before I started the sketch so it was all pretty spontaneous. The drawing itself took me longer than it may seem as I am not the most talented of artists. I have no real interest in golf so I am not too certain why the idea came to me but I thought it was funny. I like to make people laugh so I hope it has similar effects to you (my wonderful viewer) as it did to me.
Here is a link to the original assignment given by professor David Morgan
My first literacy narrative is about my journey and formative experiences as a reader and writer. Without giving too much away, said experiences were not just school assignments but rather experiences that brought out important emotions and discoveries. The narrative is somewhat chronological as I think back to my first memories of reading and writing and then branch off into elementary, middle, and high school experiences.
The whole process was a series of new experiences. To start, in order to warm up for the narrative, I did a free writing assignment which was something I had never really done before. While a lot of the writing I pumped out in the warmup was sloppy, I was able to recall certain experiences so much more vividly and all they needed was a little bit of polishing. I thought of it as stretching before a basketball game. It’s sort of annoying and it would be more fun to get right into the action, but it really helps you flow and perform. I also found myself getting a little sentimental when having such vivid memories. Maybe it’s because I miss my family a lot and I’m pretty homesick but I felt back home for a little while when doing the exercises. The vividness of my memories that came up from doing the exercises definitely show up in my essay.
The other new experience was the essay itself. I had never thought back to my experiences as a reader and writer before and I had also never written an essay in the style that I did. I wrote in a way that was somewhat loose and journalistic while still keeping in mind that it was for a class and needed to be submitted. As I wrote the essay, I put all my memories down onto paper and then analyzed how they affected my relationship with the skills. I thought about how the skills are taught in schools and why I thought about them negatively for so long. The essay helped me realize how much joy the skills had brought me in my life and how they also built my personality, teaching me how to feel different complex emotions.
Writing the essay was a lot of fun for me. I found that it didn’t feel as hard or as daunting as most essays that length would usually be to me. I got to flow and put my thoughts down on paper without needing to think too hard. My final sentence was one that a lot of people would be intrigued by. The sentence was the concept of a chart with every reading and writing experience I had ever had and a scale to see how formative they were. Would the most memorable experiences be the most formative? An interesting question to ponder.
Hi everyone! My name is Sebastian and my avatar is a photo by artist Georgina Young aptly titled Ninjadog.
I chose this dapper looking dog as my avatar because I felt that it encapsulated me as a person and it also goes along with my website title: NinjaBooks3. Growing up, before I started playing basketball I loved martial arts and got all the way up to blackbelt. I also loved dogs and this dog in particular seems rebellious and ready to take on the world which is the attitude I want people to get from me when they encounter me. An avatar serves as a first impression and to me this Ninja Dog is a perfect example of who I strive to be. Put together, able to strike at any time, serious but silly, all in one picture.
