I became a famous artist for a few days… here’s how. Well, not FAMOUS, but the artist part is true! In Maker 8 with Ms Kadi, we had a drawing week! I was STOKED because I love drawing! The downside though, we had to use Sketches Pro. It wasn’t that bad though. I pushed through.  Anyways, rate it out of 678 in the comments! I want to know all of your opinions! Give me critique and what you liked!

Word Art

First thing was our word art. I wasn’t sure what to do as my word, because doing my name would be too basic. My friend then suggested to do Taylor Swift and all her eras. I thought this would be pretty fun so I tried it! It looks great! And before you say “What about her debut era?!” Blah blah blah. ITS IN THE BIG TITLE! Duh. Anyways if you want a bit of boring detail, my favourite song from each is, Debut: Our Song, Fearless: Mr Perfectly Fine TVFTV, Speak Now: Back to December, Red: All Too Well TMVTVFTV, 1989, Now That We Don’t Talk TVFTV, Reputation: Getaway Car, Lover: Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince, Folklore: August, Evermore: Champagne Problems, Midnights: You’re on your Own Kid. Okay that’s enough. Anyways yeah MOVING ON!

ROBOT! 

So now we get to do a robot! Not gonna go in to the details that much cuz I didn’t really like my final result but anyways my robot is Taylor Swift! See the theme here… yeah. Anyways she’s cute I guess but I think I could have done better.

Emoji!

OKAY OKAY. I MADE A TAYLOR SWIFT EMOJI, YOU CAUGHT ME. But she looks really bad. As in, REALLY BAD. So I’m not saying much on here about that.

Logo

Okay, this one was MY FAVOURITE ONE. We made logos for our make believe company, and mine was called Aesthetic Room Decor (for silly gooses). All you non swifties (who haven’t already left) are probably having a victory party right now. BUT-I’m going to need your full attention to explain this. We used digital art to create a logo for a company we would create. I’ve been wanting to make my room cleaner and more aesthetic, and I thought this would be the perfect place to shop for that (even though it’s not real). Our tagline is “Less boringo, and more bazingo.” Its genius right! Anyways, I used a spark brush to make the vines sparkle, kind of like these fairy light vines I’ve been wanting.

HEY YOU! Yeah you! It’s the end of the world! Well the end of MY world. Kind of. A project. For Humanities. So no zombies, bombs, that stuff (unfortunately) But I started high school! Isn’t that crazy? I used to be a little baby and now I’m in HIGH SCHOOL?! Life goes by too fast😔. Anyways BACK TO THE PROJECT. For my first ever humanities project, we had to write a song! Well, write lyrics that are based off a song. Your parents might know it, or if you’re in PLP you might know. It’s the end of the world as we know it by R.E.M. And no, not the beauty line by Ariana Grande.

The Making of the lyrics

The first part to make our song was to make up our lyrics. The lyrics had to be in beat with the song and be related to our transition from elementary to high school. I found making these lyrics really hard. Here’s a picture of my original lyrics! Yes, I know VERY cringey, but trust me, listen to it a few times and it becomes pretty catchy! I still have it in my head.

The Outsiders

In order to learn about worldview we read this book called the outsiders. The main character is a boy named Ponyboy (I guess his parents didn’t like him) and his brothers, Sodapop and Dally. They’re parents died in a fire so now they live on their own as greasers. They have to deal with socs who are kind of like rich bullies. I would give this book a 6.5/10. It wasn’t very good but it did help with worldview. 

The Process of the song!

Everyone thought that we were doing this project solo but Ms Willemse had some tricks up sleeve. We were going to do it in groups! Unfortunately we didn’t get to pick them, but I got a good group. I was with Julia and Sam. You can check their blogs here!

>>>Julia

>>>Sam

We worked so hard on this project so read until the end to watch our video! 

Equal share or Not Fair?

The main reason I think our group was good was because nobody tried to boss each other around, take over the project, etc. We had to draw a participation pie chart for how much work people did. I gave me and Sam 30% each because we did a lot of work, but we got distracted a lot. I gave Julia 40% because she made the entire music video. 

Lights, Camera, Action!

Recording the song was definitely the most tedious part of the project. It took us a whole week to get the recording some-what upload-able. Our voices didn’t really match each others, Julia’s was high, Sam’s was deep and mine was just outright BAD. After many tries, snacks and laughs, we finally got it. After we finished recording we kind of just goofed around for a few minutes. 

It’s the end of this post as we know it!

I’m afraid this post has come to a close. But have no fear, more posts will appear! Okay, that enough of this rhyming. If you want to watch the music video click at the bottom of the post. I loved this project so much and I hope that the projects in the future continue to be this fun!

 My First Ever Maker 8 Project!

This is the link to my Keynote Presentation:https://youtu.be/x608VHggRgU?feature=shared Continue reading “My Reflection On My First Maker 8 Project!” →

Seven Things You Might Not Know About Elsa (not the princess)

Hi! Welcome to my first post! I recently moved to a new school, and I’ve made some friends! I’ve decided to do my first post about my friend Elsa! She’s a PLP student who is really funny and fun to be around. She also makes me ramen whenever I go to her house.

Want to know PLP student Elsa more? Read this post to learn more!

1. Her favourite food is Korean Fried Chicken. She loves the flavour and texture of the chicken. In her words she loves the “crunchy texture” of it.

2. Her favourite movie of all time is How to Train Your Dragon 2. Her favourite character is Stormfly who is one of the main character, Astrid’s dragon.

3. Something that she does normally but other people think is weird is that she does something called the Chad face. She’s really good at it. It’s sort of a trend/meme on social media. Believe me, I’ve tried to do the Chad face

4. Her favourite colour is cochenille which is a deep red colour. It’s actually made from a bug called a cochineal.

5. She is actually a K-pop Stan. Her favourite group is (G)-Idle which is a girl group based in Korea. Her favourite song is by (G)-Idle which is Eyes Roll.

6. Her favourite sport is ice hockey. She played hockey when she was 4 and still plays now. She has pictures of her playing hockey on her fridge.

7. Her favourite place to shop is Artbox. She loves buying K-pop albums there but it’s way too expensive for a broke person like me 😭.

Thanks for reading! Hopefully you can have a full fledged conversation with Elsa if you meet her! If you want to check out her blog click here!

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