16-17 Graphic Art

Voki is an intuitive website where you are able to create and customize and online character by choosing its clothing, face shape and voice! Here are step by step instructions on how to create a voki of your own. Then you will be able to select clothing and voice options for your voki.

First step on creating your voki is to visit the creation website at http://www.voki.com. Then, you should go to the “Try it, its free tab” that should be sliding across your screen in a PowerPoint like style. After clicking on the tab, you will be presented with a multitude of options. What you’re going to want to do is press the human-like tab that’s under the “customize your character “bar. Then you’ll be presented with a multitude of characters to choose from.

After reaching that point, you can select your character from the following tabs: digimon, dogs, cats, 3D, world, beach, monsters, smiles, fantasy, folks, classic, toons, anime, animals, edgy, oddballs, random, vip, politics, and holiday. After selecting your character, you can decorate your character in a multitude of ways.

Hello you may be wondering how I’ve created this cool piece of artwork, and today I’ll be teaching you how. The art is created by a program called “Tagxedo” which you can reach at www.tagxedo.com. The main feature of this website is to make an image out of multiple words.

I choose words that described me as an INTP-I because I feel that some of the words really describe me in some ways. However, you can choose other words to describe you in other ways as well. First you go to the website pick an image you like, then you can insert the words and style the font, and size of the text.

After completing that, you can save the image and import it to whatever website you like.

The above artwork is a color wheel, which is a collection of images brought together in a wheel-like fashion. To create a color wheel like I did, you should open up a PowerPoint presentation. Then you should select a series of colors you’d like for your wheel, then you should look up pictures that have the colors you want, save them, and add them to your PowerPoint presentation, and crop them to a triangle shape. Repeat until your color wheel, looks like a wheel.

Jim steranko is an artists whose used contrasting colors many times before, expect he’s used them in comic books instead of in traditional paintings. His comic books have used all types of combinations to interest a reader in his comic-books, contrasting and non-contrasting colors.

Graffiti is a type of art form used primarily on various types of buildings. Graffiti can be used to express political opinions, spread ideals, or just for fun. Graffiti also doesn’t have to be illegal like most people take it out to be. As long as you own the building your drawing on, it’s not illegal.

I created my graffiti wall using a photo editing program called gimp, after installing that program I loaded a brick wall background onto gimp. After that I created a multitude of words using the website, http://postergen.com/graffiti-creator, after getting the words I needed I loaded those walls onto the brick wall, used to color selection tool to select the white color around the words, and then erased the white with the eraser tool. After that I resized and moved around each word into the graffiti wall you see above.

I chose the words I used on my graffiti wall, by using words that I feel describe me. I only chose 5 words, but you can use as much words as you need until the brick wall is covered. I also used the word Braeden in the center because that’s my name.

Arcimboldo used individual objects that he put together to make a face. He mostly used fruits and vegetables to make into images. He made these paintings to offer two perspectives, as many of them had a shape that you could see upside, and then when you turn it upside it turns into a different shape/image.

I used the objects I did by looking at foods that look like a part of the body. For example, I used bacon for hair because hair is horizontal, and so is bacon. I used charcoal crackers for eyebrows because they are black and stacked. I used peppers to create Asian eyes like I have.

I decided to go to the park on a sunny hot day, since I was rather bored and had nothing else to do. I gathered a friend and we went to Mcgucken park with our cameras, once we arrived we decided to scout the large area for a nice place to take a picture; It had to be a place with no people nearby so nobody walked into our camera shots. After searching for about 30 minutes we came to an empty field and decided to take a picture of ourselves.

An injustice we face today as humans, is low pay for hard work in many developing countries or just greedy countries with high populations like china. These places are called sweatshops, and they are widespread everywhere. Even in America, companies will offer low wages for factory work, and we need to change this.

Some of these companies that use sweatshop labor in overseas factories you’ve probably heard of. These companies include Nestle, a large food producer/seller, Walmart which is one of the biggest retail sellers in America uses child labor and sweatshop labor to produce great value products, this next one might surprise you. The tablet super company known as Apple, has used cheap/ child labor to produce its devices in overseas countries such as India.

The reason these greedy companies use children for cheap labor in developing countries. They are able to get these children hired because many families in these developing countries need the children to work so the parents can feed the entire family. These huge companies don’t face much repercussion for working children in overseas factories, except minor setbacks once they are exposed in America, even then they are still using child labor and making big money.

There are a multitude of things we can do to help end sweatshops/ child labor from these companies. First, most of these company’s sales are based in America. If we American’s stop buying these products as a kind of embargo, these companies will be FORCED to change their ways or face losing big loss of income from American consumers. We can also encourage workforce strikes or we as people can sit outside these factories to slowdown production and make these companies change.

We can all agree that child labor is a very bad thing, and us as Americans are encouraging it by buying products from these companies. All of us need to help end this, or it will continue for years. I hope this changes your views.

Character list

Narrator

Masato

Kim jong un

Mackinette

Avril Lavigne

Barack Obama

Narrator- Masato was running fast after the north Korean leader, Kim jong un, because he stole the villages food and was a fugitive.

Masato- Give up kimmy jong un, you’ll never get away with this.

Kim jong un- Yes I can! I am a very fast runner after I lost all that weight

Narrator: -Suddenly a mysterious net pops out of nowhere and the thief jumps right into it-

Kim jong un- o no! what a dumb ninja I am!

Masato- Good job Mackinette, your always so reliable for me!

Mackinette- Thanks, I am the best I can be to serve me ninja village

Masato- okie let us return to our ninja village to put the traitor kimmy jong un on trial for his crimes vs japan.

Narrator: While masato and mackinette where talking with their mouths, kimmy jong un used his sharp north Korean wit to escape the net! And started yelling the north Korean battle cry.

Kim jong un- Nuke! Nuke! Nuke!

Masato- Oh no let’s go after him mackinette; curse that wit of his.

Mackinette- We must hurry! He’s trying to signal his bandits!

Masato- Yes ill chase after him, and you get help from the village!

Narrator: Masato and Mackinette parted ways, and masato chased kimmy jong un until he was right about to tackle him down, however a random girl came out of nowhere and tackled Masato.

Masato- Who are you!

Avril lavigne- I am Avril lavigne, here to help my north Korean leader!

Masato- Wow your career must have gone downhill than, none of the less I will stop you and get Kim jong un.

Narrator- Masato hits Avril lavigne in her nose, and Avril lavigne head-butts him onto the ground.

Avril lavigne- ha-ha I win the fight u r a dumb ninja!

Narrator- suddenly two shadows come out of nowhere and shoot Avril lavigne dead three times!

Masato- Whose there?

Mackinette- it’s me and Barack Obama here to save the day!

Barack- Oh boy you’ve gotten defeated by the dreaded Avril Lavigne! Here let me help you up.

Narrator: Barack helps Masato onto his feet.

Masato- Thanks now let’s go get kimmy jong un!

Narrator- Surprisingly even after all that time spent fighting Avril, Kim jong un was not far away, because he stopped to eat a bag of Doritos.

Masato, Mackinette, and barrack- Ha we got you now Kim jong un.

Kim jong un- Oh no!

Barack- prepare to be arrested and trialed for your crimes.

Narrator- The three ninjas and Kim went back to the ninja village and Kim was sentenced to death and mackinette beheaded him.

The end.

Brerin’s adventure

Number of players 4-7

Age Range 10

What this game is for

Take your boring small hangout to the next level with a hilariously fun game! Not only will you have lots of laughs but you will make rememberable memories with your friends.

How the game works!

To start the game a player draws a picture on a piece of paper. After that player draws a picture, each player puts down one of their cards they think best describes the drawn picture. They then put that card down and the player that drew the picture chooses the card that best describes the picture drawn. Then each player that put down a card draws a card. After the round finishes, the game moves clockwise and the next person draws a picture and the game repeats.

Game Contents

To start this game, you need the cards, multiple sheets of paper, a pencil, and the board.

Game assembly

All you need to assemble to game is to lay out the board, and put game piece for each player at square 1.

Game setup

To setup the game, shuffle cards, and give out 5 cards to every player.

Winning/Scoring

The winner is whoever reaches space 10 on the game board before anybody else.