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Joshua Smith Q1 Project

Posted by Joshua Smith in Art 1 · Hertz · d1 on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 12:38 am
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Joshua S
​ For my quarter 1 art project, I did a self portrait of my mother. The portrait isn’t supposed to be her exactly. I replaced her facial features with symbols that mean how I feel, or what I see when I look at her. The portrait of my mother has a green rising arrow where her eyes would be. The arrow represents growth. I wanted to use growth as something I see when I look at my mother, because she came a long way in life. Not to get into details, my mother was into negative things and now she’s a pastor, who has a master’s degree in social work, and two other degrees in different fields. There is a half red, and half white heart in the portrait where my mother’s nose would be. The heart of course represents love. I chose to draw the heart big, to show how much my mother cares about everyone. She always puts people before herself out of love. The half white of the heart is to represent purity. My mom isn’t exactly pure, but seeing where she started and how she is now, she is pure in my eyes. There is a black drawing of a toned abdomen, to a neck, along with arms where her mouth would be to represent strength. My mother has 8 children. Most people can’t take care of that number. She not only took/takes care of my siblings and I, she takes care of a lot of other people. The skin color of the portrait is brown; with black hair. There is one ear, but the head looks as if it is turned to the side. The background of the portrait is blue. 
For my personal experiences, this just shows the lady I grew up under. It was hard at times, because she didn’t have as much time for me as I wanted her to. I used colored pencils and carbon paper. I began drawing the head of my mother. I ran into a hiccup after this point. I didn’t know how to portray my idea. After getting help, I decided to use symbols instead of facial features to show meaning. Next I researched symbols that mean what I was feeling. I drew the symbols on the paper for the end of the first draft. Next I used the carbon paper to transfer the draft onto the paper for the final copy. The last thing I had to really do was add the color to it. I used colors that also backed up the meaning of the symbols. For the final step that I couldn’t really do, was adding more detail to the hair. I tried, but it didn’t work out. I don’t really know any artists and their work, so my work was only inspired by my mother. 
A new technique that I learned through the process of making this work is using the carbon paper. I am most proud of my effort. I am not artistic at all, but I did have a good idea. It didn’t turn out the best visually, but I did try my best to make my idea transparent. If I could, there would be a lot of changes made to this project, but to start off, I would want to add more detail to the hair. I would also like to use paint.
Throughout the completion of this project, I have learned to take my time with the work. Perfection cannot be rushed; neither can good work. I feel like the meaning of my project was on point, but the drawing was not good. With explanation, my project is understandable but without, it will be very hard to know what’s going on. There are many artists whose work is impossible to understand, so I don’t think it’s a problem with that, but I can work on the detail more, like in the hair.

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Hurricane Katrina

Posted by Joshua Smith in Environmental Science · Aziz · C on Monday, September 18, 2017 at 11:33 pm
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https://magic.piktochart.com/output/24501879-new-piktochart

Unknown Author. “How Do Hurricanes From?”. NASA, Oct. 6th, 2016

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/hurricanes/en/

Unknown Author. “11 Facts About Hurricane Katrina”. DoSomething.com. Date unidentified

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-hurricane-katrina

History.com Staff. “Hurricane Katrina”. History.com. 2009

http://www.history.com/topics/hurricane-katrina

Jeremy Zilar. “Hurricane Relief: How to Help”. The New York Times. Date unidentified.

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/hurricane-recovery-and-volunteer-resources/


Reflection ~ Throughout this project, the research my team and I found taught me a lot about hurricanes and the different spheres of the earth. Before the research, I thought hurricanes only affected/were affected by atmosphere and hydrosphere. My understanding on how hurricanes are formed and what they do increased and I now know more than the 2 systems affects/are affected by hurricanes. One main system that is affected and caught my eye is the biosphere, which is life. Hurricanes can be very deadly towards organisms as a whole; not just humans. They also affects the geosphere which destroys organism's homes.
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Joshua Smith Ignite Presentation

Posted by Joshua Smith in Intro to Design and Multmiedia on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 9:20 am
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Joshua's Image Editing Project

Posted by Joshua Smith in Intro to Design and Multmiedia on Friday, March 24, 2017 at 1:24 pm
Image Editing Project
Image Editing Project

My image editing project was an attempt to show a decision we make everyday, but in our lifetime; that’s deciding whether we want to do good or bad. My photo was supposed to show two roads. One leading to God ( good ) or the Devil ( bad ). Throughout this project I had hoped to learn how to edit pictures and to step out of the box and be more creative or artistic. I was struggling a lot throughout this project. The first struggle was getting my mind to realize that it’s not that hard if I would just try. I’m not artistic at all, so I automatically thought I would fail. I got over that thought when Ms. Hertz let me know it’s about perfection, it’s about a lesson. I like to learn, so it was easy for me to adapt to that. Another problem I went through while completing this project, was the software. I was using the wrong software for the first 3 checkpoints so it was hard, and not until the 4th one Mrs. Hertz noticed it when I kept telling her how complicated it was, she had to see why. The old software wasn’t so much hard to understand, but it was very limited. I had big expectations for myself, and I couldn’t do nearly what I wanted. There were very few limitations on the correct software, but it was hard to use. I realized that was okay, because that’s why I’m doing the project; to learn it. My project didn’t turn out how I seen it in the beginning but I believe with the knowledge of the software I gained during this project, if we had to do it again, I would do way better. A failure in the process that I encountered was using my time wisely. We had a week in-between every checkpoint, but I was trying to do the most without enough time. I

overcame this challenge by just lowering my goals and expectations which isn’t a bad thing. I just had to adapt to the time. Throughout the completion of the project, I learned how to use the software on a basic level good enough to edit a photo. I’ve learned about myself also, that I expect myself to be good at everything I do and it’s okay to not be. Also that I have to handle myself better under pressure. I felt like when it was time for the deadlines I would get mad at myself for not having something perfect to present and that made me miss a deadline because I felt like it wasn’t good enough. If I was to do this project again, I would handle my time better and take advantage of my free time if I want to meet or exceed expectations. That’s a tip I would have for someone completing this project, have a dated plan and use your time wisely.

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