Introduction

The Explorations Project was the last unit of Junior year where each student got the chance to explore his/her own skill they are passionate about and have a chance to improve their skills and share their knowledge with others. For my Exploration Project I chose to improve upon refining my artistic style. I have struggled with defining my own artistic style and it has bothered my for years. This doesn’t mean my style isn’t change, but I created a baseline for now. For this project I decided to show this by creating an animated tutorial on how I draw a persons face in my style.

As a an artist this project pushed me to learn how to explain my process and teach it to others which I highly value as a skill. Being able to teach others how to draw and what to look for is a very satisfying feeling. A year ago this project would have felt extremely overwhelming in my eyes, but as of now I view it in a more positive perspective and was able to enjoy myself at the end rather than stressing out. Not only was I able to screen record a presentation of and edit it on After Effects, but I was also able to successfully create a two minute and twenty-eight second animation alone and an infographic through InDesign.

Exploration Celebration Presentation

For Digital Media and English, I was assigned to create a slide presentation and then screen record it, adding audio and music in After Effects. This is a way of introducing my project and being able to explain my process in a bit more detail.

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Exploration Process

Exploration Process

Concept art step sketch
Refined steps
Procreate Exploration Project folder
Scene process on Procreate with the frames down below
After Effects editing process

Exploration Infographic

In Digital Media, as another way to exhibit my project, we were tasked with created an infographic on our topic. I decided to show my steps in a circular fashion adding details of turquoise gradient and paint splatters to contrast the yellow background.

Explorations Infographic
Infographic process on Adobe Illustrator

Final Production

After all the hard work I put in, this is my completed final animated production.

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Completed Animation