This blog and portfolio was first assigned in Q1 of freshmen year of the GAD course, where we put images of primitive adobe pizza and 3D pencil models the crazy lady "taught" us how to make. My first blog post was made with the title box and was about how I threw up on a camping trip, and I never thought it would be graded throughout high school in our course, let alone actually have it actually be a part of myself open on the internet for people to see, or at least I think they see. Freshmen Year It's really weird to remember that first cover image I had for the site. Unfortunately I didn't keep the image of my "self portrait" and it's now lost to time, probably for the better. This was around when we were learning about Adobe and 3DS Max, which are legit really useful since pretty much any editing software is similar to that line. This was also the time I made pixel art, really really subpar pixel art, masked by the fact it was super deformed. Guess it followed me to now, people still call it chibi. Wow, this is messier than I remember. Probably because I got my layers mixed up a lot, the colors were over three random layers. Sophomore Year This is where things really took off, unfortunately this was all 3D work, which was pretty boring since it's all technical and was a slog with how many tutorials we had. But, this was the opportunity to really express myself with what I consider to be an awakening of my capabilities. Because of a certain little android. Also I did actual drawing, with the occasional batch of pixel art which I strayed a bit away from. This really was the time when I took pride in selected works, since you get to put in 3D models from class as freebies for the selected works requirement. Junior Year Now this is what I remember fondly, not only was it when we were let of school for quarantine, but it was also the time I took more time to really flesh out my creations, I even put SHO and the Machine Girl concept in a GDD, well sorta since I didn't have enough time (or effort) to finish and still got an 80% for it. I legit found my own style this year oddly enough, things really do work out like that huh? This image actually came from Sophomore year, but I still think it deserves to be here because I drew it to be a game cover. Senior Year This year was... interesting to say the least. In the very last quarter up to testing, I did not feel like working in school anymore until university. But that's a part of growing up, knowing when to stop caring too much. This year is personally just one to reflect on everything up to this point, how I really did grow as an artist and even learned a lot about digital everything. Personally it's not that good, the lines are scraggly and the proportions are weird once you look closely. But it has improved since I could do so much more in senior year. Overall, I am very thankful I took a CTE course. This doesn't even bring up the unexpected parts of the GAD course, like how we had senior friends due to the classes, the unexpected software not working so we got off free, and of course the fact we could be exempt since it's still in pilot status a lot. There was also lots of funny stuff that went down, from the photoshop edits, to the dumb jokes, and even how we screwed with the computers (the overstuffed desktop comes to mind). I am very thankful to be a part of the school that was as strange as could be. Here is To Doing More Stuff and Things!
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JamesHe aspires to be a game designer, let's just hope he gets there. He also happens to goes to DSA. Categories
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