Category: ACTIVITIES (Page 3 of 4)
How online gaming has become a social lifeline
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201215-how-online-gaming-has-become-a-social-lifeline
I chose this article because I share an interest in gaming. As I read the article I thought it would be fun to illustrate as it talks about how during the pandemic people would socialize through games.
The article is trying to reach those interested in gaming and social life.
I want to have references to games that people who play games will understand. I also took different approaches that might reach those who don’t know about games at all but might be interested about the social aspect of it.
I started thinking about what the article addressed, which was how gaming connected people. One of the games it talked about was animal crossing so most of my thumbnails show ideas around that concept and how it connected people.
Article Title: WEARING YOUR NATURAL HAIR ON VACATION: TIPS FOR ROCKING YOUR KINKS AND COILS
Resource: Ebony magazine
Why did you choose this article?
I choose this article because this is a common and relatable issue among Black women or women with natural kinky or coily hair. Vacationing in tropical places and battling humidity and water can prove to be a burden.
What is the market your illustration? Is intended to reach?
Magazine editorial, fashion, and lifestyle.
How does the illustration you intend to create fit the market you want to reach?
My illustrations take on a whimsical approach of what it looks like for Black to deal with their natural hair in preparation for travel.
Explain your thinking process for your thumbnails.
I wanted to make fun of the struggles of dealing with natural hair during vacation.
Article: https://thecommonwealthinstitute.org/research/unequal-opportunities-fewer-resources-worse-outcomes-for-students-in-schools-with-concentrated-poverty/
When it comes to my topic I have chosen public school education in low-income neighborhoods. Schools in these kinds of environments are hurting students and this needs to change so kids in school are more engaged
By: Jan Hoffman – The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/health/fentanyl-overdose-crisis.html#:~:text=Fentanyl%2C%20a%20highly%20addictive%20synthetic%20opioid%20that%20is%2050%20times,to%20patients%20with%20relentless%20pain
I chose this article because drugs are a social issue and lots of people are dying of it.
I want this illustration to appear in magazines either school or daily. I think students need to be aware of this phenomenon as well as parents.
Through this illustration I want to show the sad truth of using drugs. It intends to make people, especially students, take it more seriously because it really kills.
Thinking process started by hearing and reading about lots of death cases caused by fentanyl, and just trying to connect things.
Title:When Did We Become So Obsessed With Being ‘Symmetrical’?
Source:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/style/is-your-face-symmetrical.html
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS ARTICLE: I choose this article because I think it’s interesting that The article delves into how digital tools, such as social media filters, play a role in shaping our self-image in the digital realm. It explores how these filters can dramatically alter our appearance, highlighting both imperfections and idealized traits.or Perception vs. Reality It highlights the disparity between how we see ourselves in mirrors and how we present ourselves on social media. This disconnect between our physical self and digital self is a thought-provoking aspect of modern identity.
WHAT IS THE MARKET YOUR ILLUSTRATION. IS INTENDED TO REACH?
I picked this article because it’s interesting and fits well with my art market. It talks about how social media filters affect how we see ourselves online, which is important for people into digital media and art about these topics. It also looks at the difference between how we view ourselves and how we show ourselves online, something many people can relate to in our digital world. So, it could appeal to the people I want to reach with my illustrations.
EXPLAIN YOUR THINKING PROCESS FOR YOUR THUMBNAILS
CONCEPT: mirrors show us a reversed version of ourselves, different from how others see us. Many young people on social media use filters that help them understand this difference.
Some filters highlight imperfections we might not notice in the mirror, like uneven hairlines or crooked mouths. This can be strange, similar to how it feels when we hear our own voice on a recording.
Other filters make our faces look perfect and symmetrical, almost like we’ve had plastic surgery or used Photoshop in real-time. These filters change how we see ourselves in the digital world.
Article: How American Got Mean
By: David Brooks
SOURCE: The Ones We Sent Away
Why did I choose this Article? The reason why I choose this Article,” How America Got Mean”, because David Brookes argues the reason is that in a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world. So this article tells you that it is idea to tell the truth story goes with ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling.
WHAT IS THE MARKET YOUR ILLUSTRATION. IS INTENDED TO REACH? The Market of my Illustration, I see is everything tragedy happened in the article, such as illegal drugs like smoking and drinking alcohol. Also people were being rude and disrespect to each others, like racism, sexism, and abuse, and make them very depression and cause them to commited suicide. Last is crime, for doing something illegal, like selling drugs, guns, and stealing stuff like money, and everything is seems cause holocaust. It is intended to reach, that everything happened in the article is much worst.
What does the this illustrations tells you? According to this illustration, the shattered American means that the United States is been a disaster. How this country is a disaster? According to the Article “ Why have Americans become so sad? The rising deaths of despair from drugs, alcohol, and suicide.” This means that people were negative causing dangerous things, like drugs, beer, and killing themselves, people of America are grieving and misery and sounds like everything seems apocalypse.
How does the Illustration I intend to create fit the market you want to reach? The illustration I intend to create fits the market I want to reach, is They say what happened in the article was a disaster. So they mention, that there were Drugs, alcohol, and suicide. Second, in high school, students report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness approximately 26% in 2009 to 44% in 2021, which might called “depression.” Another reason why American is mean is rude or cruel behavior once a week at the restaurant, which is considered “hatred.” Third, awful happened in 2020, there was a far extreme meanness, and hate crimes to their highest level in 12 years, murder rates have been surging, at least until recently, cause criminal has weapons. Fourth, they mention “mass shootings”, people involved in a sort of emotional, relation, and spiritual crisis, and it undergirds our political dysfunction and a general crisis of democracy. It is different social observations have offered different stories to explain the rise of hatred, anxiety, and despair. Last, the two names mentioned in the article, are people who would never want to go back to training methods for a long time, as many are “Racism” and “Sexism”. Racism is people have different color, however, white people threaten other race, because other race is not allowed in white people’s place, like Ruby Bridge. Last is Sexism, meaning all men are typically against women on the basis of sex, which means that a lot of men are disrespectful to women, like abuse and threats, which explains the mentions of this article. In conclusion, the illustration I intend to create to fit the market is 10 names of bad things and events in this article.
Explain my thinking process for my thumbnails. My thinking process for my thumbnails is that I read of this article, that explaining to what disaster happened, causing the America were grief and misery, and people were dying.
Article: How American Got Mean
By: David Brooks
SOURCE: The Ones We Sent Away
Why did I choose this Article? The reason why I choose this Article,” How America Got Mean”, because David Brookes argues the reason is that in a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world. So this article tells you that it is idea to tell the truth story goes with ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling.
WHAT IS THE MARKET YOUR ILLUSTRATION. IS INTENDED TO REACH? The Market of my Illustration, I see is everything tradegy happened in the article, such as illegal drugs like smoking and drinking alcohol. Also people were being rude and disrespect to each others, like racism, sexism, and abuse, and make them very depression and cause them to commited suicide. Last is crime, for doing something illegal, like selling drugs, guns, and stealing stuff like money, and everything is seems cause holocaust. It is intended to reach, that everything happened in the article is much worst.
What does the this illustrations tells you? According to this illustration, the shattered American means that the United States is been a disaster. How this country is a disaster? According to the Article “ Why have Americans become so sad? The rising deaths of despair from drugs, alcohol, and suicide.” This means that people were negative causing dangerous things, like drugs, beer, and killing themselves, people of America are grieving and misery and sounds like everything seems apocalypse.
How does the Illustration I intend to create fit the market you want to reach? The illustration I intend to create fits the market I want to reach, is They say what happened in the article was a disaster. So they mention, that there were Drugs, alcohol, and suicide. Second, in high school, students report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness approximately 26% in 2009 to 44% in 2021, which might called “depression.” Another reason why American is mean is rude or cruel behavior once a week at the restaurant, which is considered “hatred.” Third, awful happened in 2020, there was a far extreme meanness, and hate crimes to their highest level in 12 years, murder rates have been surging, at least until recently, cause criminal has weapons. Fourth, they mention “mass shootings”, people involved in a sort of emotional, relation, and spiritual crisis, and it undergirds our political dysfunction and a general crisis of democracy. It is different social observations have offered different stories to explain the rise of hatred, anxiety, and despair. Last, the two names mentioned in the article, are people who would never want to go back to training methods for a long time, as many are “Racism” and “Sexism”. Racism is people have different color, however, white people threaten other race, because other race is not allowed in white people’s place, like Ruby Bridge. Last is Sexism, meaning all men are typically against women on the basis of sex, which means that a lot of men are disrespectful to women, like abuse and threats, which explains the mentions of this article. In conclusion, the illustration I intend to create to fit the market is 10 names of bad things and events in this article.
Explain my thinking process for my thumbnails. My thinking process for my thumbnails is that I read of this article, that explaining to what disaster happened, causing the America were grief and misery, and people were dying.
Title: How heat affects the body – inside and out.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/17/heat-stress-heatstroke-temperatures
I chose this article because I myself suffer heavily from high temperatures from my own body as well as the sun, The side effects are very much proven in my experience and I want to spread awareness for the effects and how they may harm us as people.
The market that my illustration is supposed to reach is that of the everyday person looking to learn more about how the rising temperature of our planet will affect their day to day lives. As people’s attention spans are getting shorter and shorter everyday an illustration that is both eye catching yet whimsically relatable is what is required to not only attract that short attention span but keep it so that they read the article and inform themselves about the many side effects.
The first of nine showcases (Top Left) the sun and a person both steaming with the inside of the person being on fire. The second of nine (Top middle) shows the sun looming over a person who is hunched over and on the floor kneeling while the inside shows a skull and crossbones showing that they are not feeling too well. The third of nine (Top right) shows a close up of a person meanwhile they’re sweating profusely and the inside of them begins to light on fire in a sense shutting down. The fourth of nine (Middle left) is a further back view of the third one basically a continuation. The fifth of nine (Middle) shows a person that has sweat so much that they have started to float in their own sweat. The sixth of nine (Middle right) shows someone hunched over with the sun looming over them lighting them on fire almost like a magnifying glass focusing sunlight onto a stick. The seventh of nine (Bottom left) shows someone laying on their side creating a waterfall of sweat and unfortunately vomit as the effects of high enough temperatures basically lead the human body to purge itself of its food due to nausea and headaches. The eighth of nine (Bottom middle) shows a person stuck in a microwave waiting to meet an unfortunate ending, think hotdog in a microwave. The ninth of nine (Bottom right) shows a person and the planet both having an explosion go off on their head due to the rising temperatures that they’re both experiencing and on second viewing they look like chef hats.
ARTICLE TITLE: Why Football Fans are Violent
BY: Adam John
ARTICLE SOURCE: https://thesportsground.com/why-soccer-fans-are-violent/
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS ARTICLE:
The reason I chose this topic is because as a fan of the most popular and played sport in the world, I feel the need and responsibility to bring to light the toxic and discriminatory behavior of many groups of fans of various teams around the world. With this, I seek to make known the violent acts, crimes, betting, and corruption inside and outside the fields that, in a certain way, have killed a little of the magic of the most beautiful sport in the world, transforming it into a vice or business, forgetting that magic is within the courts.
WHAT IS THE MARKET YOUR ILLUSTRATION. IS INTENDED TO REACH?
My illustration is dedicated to all fans of football and sports in general. The objective is to send an honest message about the current situation of this sport and cause a positive impact of change through strong visuals that reflect a sad reality.
HOW DOES THE ILLUSTRATION YOU INTEND TO CREATE FIT THE MARKET YOU WANT TO REACH?
Well, football is the most practiced, watched, and popular sport in the world, so it must be able to break language barriers so that it has the required impact anywhere in the world. Being so popular and having fans who identify with this problem, posters would be the most effective way to communicate the message to large masses, large parts of the world, and athletes.
EXPLAIN YOUR THINKING PROCESS FOR YOUR THUMBNAILS
For the initial concepts, I focused on the world of football from my point of view as a fan of this sport, teams, and as a player himself. Thus, I was able to implement my own feelings and what I think about this issue of exclusion, discrimination, and toxicity in sports. I started with basic ideas of how it has affected players, teams, other fans, and off-court problems.
