16-17 Graphic Art

Using Voki I will show you how I created my website avatar and how it got to the stage it is in right now. Voki is a website where you can make avatars that can speak and be customized to your desire you can change color and the shape of facial features to your liking. You can also give your avatar a voice and use a variety of voices to match what voice you want it to have.

So first thing I did was pull up Voki and on the site you can just pick “Voki” on top to start you editing, I picked a cat because it was simple and I really didn’t want to go and mess with the facial features. To begin I wanted it to be black cat to represent my cat who is also black. So I went to Color and Tweak at the bottom left, and turned it to a dark shade of grey so it didn’t turn into a blob of black goo.

Now you can give your avatar “Bling” (And cloths but the cat’s don’t have that option) so I looked at it and it really didn’t seem like the coolest thing. So I didn’t have any but later on I found that you could change and tweak that too if you wanted it to look better. So now my cat is sitting there and he’s looking pretty good so now I going to give him a voice so that he can talk to you.

So you have a few options for voicing You can use a phone or microphone to record your voice, upload a sound file, and or type in what you want it to say. I went with option three but you choose in this HUD you can see a few things. What language, who will be talking, and what he will say so you can pick your desired voice and language. I chose English and Daniel from the UK. After that just type in what you want him, or her to say and it will speak.

The Background can give you avatar a setting so pick background in the normal HUD and pick your desired one so that you can get your desired setting. I picked nightlife and the one with thee two lights on your avatar. When your done you want to click publish and it will load a different interface which you can share your creation on or give people a html code for a link to what you made.

This artwork is made from words that are in a pattern to create something that has a more artistic flare. The words can represent how you feel or just be random and it takes the words and pattern you pick or give it and rearrange the words on the pattern to make the image made out of those words. First we needed an image of ourselves so that we can put tat as our pattern, then we need to take the image and put that in as our pattern where we can change a few options. The image tells the program where to put the words so that it won’t be a glob.

Now we have the pattern we need to give it the words to use so I gave it descriptive words of myself and so when you read them it will look like I am just made of my emotions and these words. So I picked a few like “Wandering”, and “Active” My mind is always wandering down different paths so that I can predict what happens if I say things and what I do can affect others. I also said Active because I play a lot of soccer I started playing at three and haven’t took a break and I like to not be a couch potato forever. But I also said “Lazy” because some days I have to take a break and sleep or just talk to friends over the phone.

These words describe me and the art represents what I am made of, now when you look at it you will just see my outline and see that what I do and feel art part of me. This art represents me and who I am and what I do in my life. Now you can use this in a variety of ways but no one stops you so you can use it any way you want to.

A color wheel can be used to show what paints or types of colors you will be using in your artwork. Like lighter colors could be used and you can see how the colors you will be using will combine, the color wheel can be used for many things and can just be there for you to see the colors you will use. It can be so you can keep your colors your using close so you don’t have to save the colors you will have them in front of you. You can also combine the colors to create better tones and make your art to change darker or different colors.

In the painting “The Starry Night” Vincent Van Gough used the primary color wheel, I see that there is yellow and a lot of tones of blue and darker reds for the city. You can use a color wheel to keep you on track of what to use for coloring and your art. The art can you make using that color wheel can let you to make art that is in the mood. If it’s a lonely picture or painting, you would use a darker tone to go with the theme.

Graffiti is the art and expression of your emotion and words that are on walls or floors usually on abandoned buildings. This form of art is in bright colors and is painted using spray paint and or a brush. And the art is usually made up of artistic words that are slightly stretched or wave. Though the art is illegal people still do it on public walls and on abandoned building.

I used a brick wall background that had texture and depth so that I could put my graffiti on the brick wall. The I can copy and paste the picture after I create it by using the graffiti print creator where you can customize how it looks and font it is in. Then you paste it in on a new layer and cut out the white and then erase the other un-needed stuff. Then after I got all the images in I combined all the layers and lower the trans parity so it looks more authentic.

I choose the word that describe me because I want to say who I am and what I do. Like what graffiti people use that art to describe them and how they act and how they feel. Graffiti is an art and yes its illegal but sometimes it can express who you are. I chose the words that fit me and describe my attitude to others and myself.

Arcimboldo started painting glass windows but then went to other art because he worked with Giuseppe Meda he started making the food faces out of different objects. People debate if he was insane or crazy and he could have been perfectly normal. After painting with the other artist no one knows exactly why but he started and made his art out of other things.

I used food items that I thought would look good together so that it would create a face that looked sort of like me. I put them together is such a way that it fits together to look like me and blend together. Also I used colors that looked like me like red hair and green vegetables for my skin.

Hello, I’m John and I live on the same planet as you, hopefully, and I’ve lived for a few years wandering two countries. People are nice too you sometimes and others are annoying. You find all kinds of people around the world and see just about all the attitudes and reactions from me. Sometimes I get gifts and another try giving me shelter other just shut the door. But in the end I ended up where I started with something I understood.

I was born in England and started walking from the second I left the orphanage well really I was kicked out. I thought the religion was too hard to understand and had too many potholes. First I walked out of my home town Bakewell a small town of 4,000 or so. And I walked to the road and walked out, people would stop their cars and ask if I was ok but at the time I said nothing now I saw much more.

When I was around twelve I went to America by getting a ticket from a man whose father was dyeing so he gave it to me for free. Did not know where I was going but when I saw a couple talking about America I thought it might be there and I was right. We pulled into Alabama on the boat and was dropped off. I followed a large river till it split and I followed one to Huntsville and was photographed by an art team outside a school.

They seemed nice but I didn’t want to stay so I left and just kept walking. I had gotten cuts before form tripping and falling but when I was walking one day I well on a rock on some mountain and fell breaking my arm. I ended up back in Huntsville and was hospitalized and someone paid for my treatment I didn’t understand. They said they would take care of me and I rejected and fled from there after treatment because somethings you could never forget. I found my way back to England and wet back to school.

I wandered for two years around my country and there’s and sometimes you have to go back to what you understand. And when I came back I understood what I had left, my home. They cried and said they thought I was dead. I understood that sometimes people you leave out of anger and misunderstanding can regret their actions. Sometimes I feel that I did something rather dangerous but I survived.

Born in November 24, 1784 and grew up on a plantation out in Orange County Virginia, I was born on Hare Forest Farm my grandfather’s farm. I lived with my three younger sisters and with my five brother, one of my brothers died in infancy. My mother Sarah Dabney and my father Richard Taylor who served as a lieutenant colonel in the American Revolution. One of my great-great-great-great grandmother, or grandfathers was a Mayflower immigrant, and signed the Mayflower Compact I have always looked up to they for greatness. My second cousin James Madison always seems so smart and I’ve always seen him as a genius. I’ve grown up to look back and keep myself above the shadows I once sat in, I just married my wife Margret Mackall Smith in 1810.

In 1848 I was elected in the 16th quadrennial presidential election on November 7th. I was in the Whig party, and won the election, I ran against Lewis Cass form the Democratic Party. I also ran against a man named Van Buren from the new Free Soil party. To be honest there are many party’s that people could vote for. I won! I didn’t expect that and now I’m the president and the fight against the people who hate me begins. I hate those people who want to point out every little thing wrong with me, what did I do to deserve this, what did I do to them. Some people like me in office, but I guess I don’t notice the good, and all the bad.

I am the 12th president of the united states, I don’t really like socializing with Congress because I follow a philosophy called “outsider” where I really didn’t keep in touch with congress. I never addressed a legislature with a clear policy statement. The only time I did tell legislature was about the whole thing on the statehood of California and New Mexico. The Congress keep ignoring my annual federal economic policy, but my treaty involving England on Central America I called it the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. I got sick one day, sicker by the day and never getting better.

World Hunger is a problem that kills, it doesn’t just kill adults but also kills kids when they are very young. World Hunger can be solved by giving food but if we stop importing food then they will never learn to support themselves and can never learn to survive. If we taught ourselves how to farm and grow food, we can pass it to others and let everyone know how to create food. World Hunger is dangerous and is painful for the people who go through it, it can be solved but you just need to be willing to spend some of your time.

Hunger kills maybe too many for you to ever know it but when it comes down to the hard facts of life around 75% of the people who die from world hunger are children. If we put the time and effort into teaching about World Hunger maybe more people will care and decide to help. We can teach them to teach other to learn to grow food and help themselves so that they can never go hungry and hopefully stop people who don’t deserve to die from hunger survive.

Hunger could be solved at the expense of the 30 billion dollars when that seems like a lot of money think that the U.S. defense budget of $737 billion dollars’ form 2012 $30 billion seems more affordable (Borgenproject.org/the-cost-to-end-world-hunger/). This much money could solve the world hunger problem for a year at a small expense to what is compared to our military. We may be sending food but are we sending enough to feed all of the hungry? We can help so why not do something to help those in needs who do not deserve what they go through.

And when you see the number you will be absolutely amazed like how it’s the number one health risk, and how one is seven people will go bed hungry, or how one in four children are under weight and how the population of starving hungry people out numbers the U.S, Canada, and European Union’s populations combined. We need to help the hungry we already help some but we can help a lot more and help those who are in need of food and are dying because they do not know how to get their own food and can’t feed themselves. Let’s not only educate those who are hungry but those who will be helping those who are hungry like me and you.

Hunger is a big problem that can be solved if everyone took time to understand it and how it works, we may even find easier less expensive ways to solve hunger if more people looked at it and saw that it really matters and can help a lot of people. Hunger hurts a lot of people but we can stop it we can educate ourselves on what is happening around us helping us understand the grave problem that we face called World Hunger.

The darkness surrounds me I can’t see the light that should light the cell has gone out and they won’t light it. It’s been off for a long time now, the only light you get is the little light that may shine from cells far down the dark, and gloomy hallway but those lights will go out and we will all be eaten by the dreary darkness.

Elias: This doesn’t feel like a prison It feels like a dark hell.

Henry and William enter carrying lanterns

Henry: Oh look it’s the old man *chuckling* blind as a bat I see.

William: Get out of your cell filth.

Henry: You heard the man! Get up, your making this harder for yourself.

Elias: Yes, yes if you wanted me to be faster how about you feed me more.

William: Got some fight in this one! Get up! *Elias is escorted by William and Henry to the courtyard and start stepping up to the gallows.*

Elias: New something like this would happen.

Henry: Get up there punk, and say hello to the Executioner for me!

Elias: Good afternoon. Executioner: get up here!... *fits noose around head*

Elias: Well I guess I get to see the sun again. Executioner: For acts of treason and murder we punish you with death for murdering the king and queen in their own house. *Pulls lever and trap door opens below Elias’s feet*

Elias: *Neck snaps and dies*

William: Ok well at least we got rid of some filth in this world.

Henry: I guess your right.

Use the board provided to play the game, you will need the pieces to play, each piece represents a character that is a letter. Every team, or player can control four characters, once it’s your turn you can either attack, move, or do nothing for each character. So if all four of your characters are alive you can move each one but they can only move, attack or do nothing you cannot attack and move using the same character. Once you are attacked you will take the provided damage from that character’s health. When you hit zero or below you will be downed the first time and you can no longer be revived. To revive characters, you will need to get your Doctor, or your allied teams Doctor to shoot your character twice and you will be revived to half health (round up if needed). Also when a Doctor shoots her teammates or allied team they will gain twenty health. Each character can only be downed once so if your health hits zero or below again you will be killed.

Tank: 200 health, attacks for 50 damage, while he is 3 tile away. Can ONLY move/attack Left, Right, Front, and Back by 1 tiles.

Doctor: 75 health, attacks/heals for 20 hit points, while she is 6 tiles units away. Can ONLY move/attack diagonally by 2 tiles.

Warrior: 150 health, and attacks for 30 damage, while she is 6 tiles units away. Can move/attack in all directions by 1 tile.

Sniper: 100 health, and attacks for 35 damage, while he is 12 tiles units away. Can ONLY move/attack Left, Right, Front, and Back by 3 tiles.

You can only attack in the directions you can move so a Tank cannot attack diagonally but can attack left right and front and back. Each character also has a speed or movement statistic so like the Sniper she can move up to 3 tiles in her given directions this means she can only move 3 tiles no more or less. So she can only move to the squares labeled “M”. But you cannot move through walls or barricades using this but if it’s a diagonal wall characters like Warrior, and the Doctor can slip through.

In case of a draw, or when two character are stuck in a loop at the end of the game where if one stops moving he/she will die you will label the winner on either a coin toss, 2/3 R.P.S, or which team has more kills.

You are not allowed to move to other characters’ tiles so you cannot have two character sitting in the same tile to prevent conflict. There are Two types of walls barricades, and walls you can shoot through barricades (which are grey), but you cannot shoot through walls which are bullet proof, but you can shoot through diagonal walls/barricades to hit people on the other side. Walls are represented by the dark/black tiles.

Gladiatorial

Number of players 2-4

Age Range 10+

Fluff Text or Back Story

You are thrown into the arena to kill each other with guns and swords do you need any more backstory than that?

Game Objective

This is a turn based game where each “hero” you have can move or attack each turn so you can move all four of your characters. To win you will need to be the last player standing, or if you decide to end the game in the middle who ever has more kills/knockouts. You will need to avoid attacks and try to keep your characters out of bad spots and try not to get trapped.

Game Contents

Large board, instructions, bag that will hold the 16 pieces 4 for each team.

Game assembly

Put the game board down and read the rules through and through until you understand how the game will work and how to play.

Game setup

How you setup the game is by taking each of your four character and put them where there is the corresponding color for your team. Team 1 is Blue, Team 2 is Brown, Team 3 is Purple, and finally team 4 is Red.

Game Play

Who starts? Does youngest player go first? If not, how is this determined? Who plays next? Does play pass to the left? If not, what is the turn order? Define terms (if necessary).

Turn Sequence - On a player’s turn, what is the sequence of actions? What happens at the end of a round? Is there scoring? Does the order of play change?

Special conditions

If you do land on a spot that the opposing team on the same tile you will need to move back or move in any one direction to the side so you will end up beside them. (You cannot pick a square where the is a wall or grate)
Winning/Scoring

To win you will need to be the last team standing. If it is a short match, then you will be counting how many players killed or knocked out.

Game Play variations (if any)

If you would like a more challenging experience, then you can play with no revives or heals. Or you can agree to take out up to three character from all teams.

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