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