The art project we did for the Recuerdame project was a Self-Portrait project. We had to make a self-portrait of ourselves using multiples types of media, including collage, paint, pencil, etc. My goal for this project was to make a self-portrait that describes me a little bit and shows what I like. For the first part of the project, we drew ourselves using pencils. I think I did a really good job on that and a lot of people said it looked like me. I didn't use the lines that are supposed to go across the face to measure everything, I just eyeballed it and drew what I saw in the mirror. I think the most challenging part about that was drawing my mouth. I feel like I couldn't get the proportion right and I could've done a better job on that. Otherwise, I thought it looked good. The thumbnails were an easy process for me because I had already known what I wanted to do for my project, I just needed to come up with a couple of others to fill in for the assignment. I had one where I was almost invisible and there was a outline of my head. One of them had me sticking my head through paper, with my body on the other side. The last one was me surrounded by video game characters, which is the one I ultimately went with. The mixed media self-portrait I made looks good in my opinion. I am in the middle dressed up as a video game character, known as Sans. Around me are elements from other video games, like Pac-Man and Blinky from Pac-Man, the starship from Galaga and the portals from Portal. The reason I picked Sans as the character I am portrayed as is because I feel like I can somewhat relate to him. He’s sarcastic sometimes, so am I. He likes to tell jokes and I do too. He’s laid-back and carefree. I am… to a certain extent. He almost always smiles and I do too. The reason I chose video games over everything else was because some of the time I don’t feel like I can express my personality that well. There’s not much to express either. I am what you see. I put video games in there, like my name tag project, because it’s something I really enjoy. I don’t really express my personality that well and that’s why I made video game characters. The reason Sans is in there is because I thought of it while I was making my self-portrait. I was originally going to cut the eyes out and put something else in, but I didn’t know what. That’s when I thought of Sans and how hey has one blue eye. So I started going with it. The eye part was supposed to be a joke, but it blew up and now it’s just a part of my portrait. The materials I chose to use were markers, pencil and paper. I used the paper for everything, including Pac-Man and the Galaga ship. I used the markers and pencils to color in or draw some of my shapes. I drew the hoodie and the smile on me, and I colored in Blinky and my hoodie. I think that my art piece shows a couple of different elements of art / principles of design. The first one is space. I feel like I used space based on how I positioned some of the video game characters. They are smaller than they are supposed to be, signifying that it’s behind me. The Galaga ship is even being cut off a bit by my shoulder. Another one I used was proportion. I think I did a really good job at making sure all of my facial features were the right size and that they weren’t exaggerated or overlooked (expect the mouth). I did pretty well at sizing up my face and making the right size in relation to each facial feature. The last element / principle I used was unity. The portrait doesn’t look like somebody just pasted a bunch of images to paper. It looks like it was planned out, and that everything fits together nicely. I looks like all of those are supposed to be there, and not a mixing pot of images I found in magazines.
When I got feedback, there were a couple of things I needed to work on. I needed to add images, which I did. I also was told to fix the grammar mistakes I had in my essay. I only had 1 grammar mistake and I fixed it. I also needed to reflect on feedback, but I couldn't do that yet because I didn't get any feedback. Now that I have feedback, I'm able to critique my work based off of it.
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The zine category I chose to focus on was the "We're All Humans". I thought it was important to address because I feel that a lot of people know about their heritage and culture, but not as many people know about the science being heredity and how you're related to others. I want to educate people on the science behind genes and heredity. I want to educate how they're a part of their culture.
Genes can affect our characteristic traits. They can be affected by the heredity that you got when you were born. Both parents and their family line work together to provide genes and chromosomes to make you and your genes. Some of your traits can be from your dad, and some from your mom. Some of the traits you receive can be dominant, which means they are more likely to show. There are recessive traits, too. These aren't as visible, and can sometimes be seen on rarer occasions, because the dominant traits might overpower the recessive ones. The combinations of genes and alleles are like a game of chance. Those mutations can be passed on to future generations, in a study call epigenetics. It's where certain parts of the genetic code are locked and unused, but can be unlocked by the environment and the organism's surroundings. There are on and off "switches" in the genetic code of organisms that can be turned on and off depending on certain environments it's in or certain experiences it may have. As a baby, you mave have had blonde hair and blue eyes. That's because the genes that produce melanin are turned off in the early stages of your childhood. As you get older, though, the melanin code gets unlocked, and is turned on. Melanin is the amino acid that controls the pigment of your skin, hair, eyes, etc. Your hair may begin to change color and your eye color may change, depending on how much genetic code you have for creating melanin. The reason I used Spanish in my zine to communicate with the Hispanic community, which is who the Heritage event is focused largely on. I used the images in my zine to emphasize the categories on each page. The DNA drawing in the "Herencia" category is supposed to emphasize that heredity exists through the genetic code. Theorists, The Game. “Game Theory: Why Eevee Is the MISSING LINK to Pokemon Evolution!” YouTube, YouTube, 29 Nov. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn2XVQ4XXPY. "Defining A Species." Understanding Evolution, U.C.M.P Berkeley, 22 August 2008, https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_41 “What Is Epigenetics?” Edited by Steven Dowshen, KidsHealth, The Nemours Foundation, Mar. 2018, kidshealth.org/en/parents/about-epigenetics.html. |