IRISXU

I have learnt that sketchbooks can be well organized and in category. My drawings in sketchbook no need to be perfect.

It is important to include photograph, explanation and research in sketchbook.

The drawing exercises were excited and interesting, and I enjoy it very much.

My most successful drawing is the first one, the hat. because I spent most of my time on to it, so I think it looks better compare to other drawing I have.

The least successful one is the two materials drawing at the once. I use pencil and pen draw at the same time. This is my first time trying to do so, and I think it need more practice to work on.

After all, I am so enjoy to have this in class exercises.

I am very enjoy to draw in different methods, and I think there is a lots improvement spaces for my drawings.

What do you see? What is included?

I see many pages of student sketchbook. Their sketchbook pages are all well organized and with a lots of descriptions. I see their primary research, story boarding, hemogram mind maps and testing.

How do the example differ to how you have used sketchbooks in the past?

I think it’s very similar, but their sketchbooks are more organized than what I have. I think they are using typesetting for their sketchbook, and what I does is just putting some general ideas.

What do you find inspiring?

I think I will have to make my sketchbook more organized.

Are the sketchbooks pages ‘perfect’ and ‘neat’? or do you see somethingelse?

The sketchbooks pages are actually neat, but the content are in orders. I can see a lots efforts and descriptions in each design.

I like the color I decide to use in this project.

I think I need to put more details and other factors into this project to make it perfect.

I made many friend at first week in LCC.

I enjoy to learn more creating techniques

I will like to learn more in the future.

I want to put myself in a hard working circumstance.

I don’t have any question to ask, and I will try to overcome all the challenges by myself first.

My dream is to become a game designer and I want to study in UAL to start my design career.

This is my first laser cut work, and I want to use this project to show my goal is. I want to become a game designer and I think game is another fantastic world. I want to bring all my colorful thoughts into real life. At last, I think game will never end.

Summarize the main ideas from the text. 

This article shows people are taking vate of actions due to the environmental issue. They are trying to warn more people’s attention about the importance of climate crisis. For example, some companies reuse energy to produce new products. And another example is graphic designers relate environmental problems within their design. People use their own way of actions to suggest others to live in an eco-lifestyle. Energy and water resources are difficult to regenerate, so we need to save as much as possible. Recycling materials can reduce unnecessary waste. Earth and Climate is one of the chapters that shows things affected by climate change. There are more general ideas and future plans show in the chapter “Green development.” After all, it shows if we take actions and response to the live in an eco- lifestyle, our living environment will definitely improve.

• Create 3 comprehension or discussion questions to ask the group members.

1-What solution and answers are included in these six key theme?
2-What kind of design form do people use to present environmental issues?
3-What environmental protection methods are used in the company’s products?

paragraph link:

Greenenergy+ water

Connector
 Iris Xu (19005982)
Ten Questions for Steve Cutts
Director, Happiness

Select three specific points/concepts from the text and make connections between them and: 

• Another class or course you have studied on 

This article reminds me of the 2D animation class that I learned before. Because this article is also about animation and the author’s enlightenment to animation.
Which is related to the number 2 question in the article. <Which tools do you use to animate> and Steve Cutts’s answer <I use Clip Studio [paint] Pro to animate hand drawn frame >

• Another text you’ve read before

This article also reminds me some short stories about Teri fox. He is one of the most famous people in Canada. He had his right leg cut off because of cancer. After he learned that the government did not have enough money to study into cancer, he held a marathon to raise funds. He wants everyone to donate a dollar for cancer.
This is connect to the number 5 question <What was the toon that changed your life?> and author’s answer <Who Framed Roger Rabbit had an impact on me as a kid and was amazing, especially given the limited technology they had at the time>

 • A current local or international news event you found

This article is more like a documentary. I remembered the newspaper I had read from before. It is the interview about some famous superstar’s daily life. 
This article is composed of ten questions

 • A personal experience

This reminds me of a year ago when I participated in a brand’s New York Fashion Week as a designer and invited guest. Many reporters took photos and interviewed me. They asked me the similar question about the inspiration of my own piece. I think everyone has their unique insights and unique style of art. 
This is connecting to the first question, <So, first up, can you tell us how your new short Happiness came to be? > and his answer, <We’re over populated, living in massively overcrowded conditions and desperate to survive at all costs, running up and down tunnels all day to get to where we want to be, trying to find some kind of happiness>

 • A film you have watched etc. 

This article reminds me the Death Video. Which is the only documentary I ever watched. 
This documentary is also telling a story about a group of people are escaping from zombies which is similar to number 5 paragraph< I try to create films which draw audiences in through humor and storytelling >

• Explain how it helps you understand that part of the text better. It may be that some of the initial plots are very similar. Both of them show the interview of people’s daily life.

Comparing all the texts I wrote and the story I have read. I have a better understanding of the writing format and key content of this article. This article is an interview and consists of ten questions. It is about a writer using mice as a media to create his art piece. The theme of his design is happiness. 

     Five unknown vocabulary or phrases
– Amplification (From Page 1, Line 5)- Seductive (From Page 1, Line 11)- Residual (From page 1, Line 13)- Albatross (From page 1, Line 19-20)- lethal (From Page 1, Line 20-21)

Amplification – the amplification of every small act of consumption translates into the rapid and pervasive degradation of the natural world.

Seductive – Jordan transformed these billowing piles into seductive abstractions.

Residual – whose beauty is at odds with the reality that discarded items consume resources in the recycling process and propel a stream of residual waste into landfills.

Albatross – We see the carcass of a baby albatross, its gut filled with plastic caps, lighters and other lethal plastic objects.

Lethal – We see the carcass of a baby albatross, its gut filled with plastic caps, lighters and other lethal plastic objects.

Definition:Amplification (Noun)- The process of increasing the volume of sound, especially using an amplifier.Word family member: Amplify, Amplifying
Own words: Amplification means magnify something. Increase from its original form.

Seductive (Adjective)
– Tempting and attractive; enticing.
Word family member: Seduce
Own words: It makes you want to observe it closely, it’s very tempting.

Residual (Adjective)
– Remaining after the greater part or quantity has gone.
Word family member: Residue
Own words: The rest of something.

Albatross (Noun)
– a very large, chiefly white oceanic bird with long, narrow wings, found mainly in the southern oceans.
Own words: a white seabird.

Lethal (Adjective)- of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal.- made or carried out to cause death
– causing great harm or destruction
Word family member: lethal,lethality.
Own words: This word is used to describe something that can cause devastating damage.

Paragraph link:

Cell phone chargers, Atlanta, 2004 

Chris Jordan, 2004, archival inkjet print, 44″ x 66″, © 2004, courtesy of the artists

This is my own location drawing.

After I visited various of museum exhibitions and watched online photo exhibitions. I think I am more prefer visit it realistically. It is easier to see the drawing details from the Art piece and it will bring more visual impact. Online exhibitions provide more convenience, such as finding the art works you want and saving a lot of time from traveling.

I am so enjoy my class on Friday.

I have worked with my classmate and we create our own first stop motion animation. I use the letter P as the main subject. The reason I chose this letter is because I am living in Porland House, so I use the first letter P.

I use different color papers to perform my work. They are all living symbol in my video.