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Final Assignment Part 1 and 2 – Sal Mindiashvili

For my final project, I was inspired to choose the story the Ant and the Grasshopper by Aesop (http://read.gov/aesop/052.html). This fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused because while the ant was working hard during the fall season preparing for the winter, the grasshopper was playing the violin and did not seem to care about a thing.

The change I will be making to this story is the setting. Instead of some field out in the wild, I will be placing my characters in New York City. The ant will still be a hard working guy and the grasshopper will be the one not planning ahead. The demographic for my proposed book will be children living in New York aged 7-10.

Here are all my rough sketches:

The working ant is trying to tell grasshopper to stop messing around and start thinking about the future.
The ant is trying to warn the grasshopper about the harsh upcoming winter but the grasshopper is looking at his phone, not bothered.
The grasshopper is actually making fun of working ant.
Here the grasshopper is taking a picture of a hardworking ant and laughing at him
The winter has come and the homeless grasshopper has showed up at ant’s house for help.

Concept sketches:

I have chosen two of my favorite concept sketches below.

Final Assignment, Part 1 – Sal Mindiashvili

For my final project, I was inspired to choose the story the Ant and the Grasshopper by Aesop (http://read.gov/aesop/052.html). This fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused because while the ant was working hard during the fall season preparing for the winter, the grasshopper was playing the violin and did not seem to care about a thing.

The change I will be making to this story is the setting. Instead of some field out in the wild, I will be placing my characters in New York City. The ant will still be a hard working guy and the grasshopper will be the one not planning ahead. The demographic for my proposed book will be children living in New York aged 7-10.

Discussion Week 11 – Sal Mindiashvili

Stories: A Love Letter by Greg Ruth is an interesting piece of writing that explores our innate ability as well as the need to express ourselves through storytelling which she calls the most ubiquitous form of art. He writes that since the beginning of our history as human species, our natural talent to express has been there and has only been gotten more and more complex and diverse as our cultures have evolved.

Since storytelling is such an important and powerful aspect of our social lives so is the illustration. He then asks an important question on what kind of story we want to tell during our time on this planet. I think that this is a good question to ask because the expression of ourselves whether that’s an illustration or a poem, or a book or a film, tends to last longer than ourselves. It’s important to think about leaving something inspiring and useful behind.

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