This unit our projects focused around the question: “Who am I?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Digital Media, we explored our own personal styles through various methods of digital art. To do this, we revisited Adobe Photoshop, and learned about the different effects, brushes, and filters, to make a digital piece of art look like a traditional, tangible piece. In Animation, we created our own original characters and learned the basics of 3D modeling and animation. I learned about myself in this unit, and also opened up to different styles and techniques I had never tried before. In English, we wrote a personal essay describing our past experiences and how they have shaped us into who we are today. For this assignment, we created a list of 20 objects called “Essence Objects”, which represent us in some way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Personal Mandala<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
To the Moon and Back<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The first project of my Senior year at Freestyle was to create a personal mandala in Adobe Illustrator. We learned how to set up the file in a way that would create a repeating pattern around the entire circle, and we got to choose how many times it would repeat. Once the file was set up, we had the freedom to create anything with our mandala, and I think mine is very reflective of my personal style. I decided to create a scene from the ground of the Earth all the way to the galaxy. I hadn’t originally planned this, as I created this scene as I was drawing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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