Human Document
Author: Matt
Sketch 3 Reflection
When thinking of what I wanted to do for this project, I originally had some difficulty. I wasn’t finding inspiration with the things around me that would be cool to integrate with an image. However, I was looking at a bag of apples I got from the farmers’ market in my room and was hit with my idea. I decided to draw an apple and integrate a knife I use for cutting my apples into the image.
Though I had my idea, I didn’t know how to draw an apple. So like most artists, I googled “how to draw an apple.” I looked at the image results and drew a rough outline in pencil. Before I started coloring, I wondered how I would create depth in the image. I vaguely remembered how to shadow and used the side of my pencil to add that extra dimension. Thankfully while I colored, the shadow was maintained by the graphite under the ink. To add the knife, I cut into the paper and put part of the blade behind the paper in order to create the illusion that the knife was in the apple. After taking the image, I used the basic photo editor to crop and filter the image into how it is viewed on the website. The name came to me instantly from childhood stories of Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed
Visual Notes & Reflection
While going through the process of drawling the visual notes, I didn’t notice anything new. My understanding of the topic didn’t improve, but I’d say learning the material certainly would’ve been easier had I seen this instead of reading his long arguments. I didn’t like the process of making visual notes because I find writing simple, written notes to be more time effective for me. I learned that I tend to think verbally as opposed to visually, which is why it took me a little while to come up with the concept/layout for the notes.
Reflection of Literacy Narrative
How did you learn to read and write? In my page, you will discover the reasons and the process from which I became a writer.
My process for writing this narrative felt considerably easier than papers I have written in the past. I think the freewriting before hand really helped guide me through the process. The act of answering the specific and simple questions almost wrote the entire paper by itself. This was very different than my typical process of staring at the blank page and waiting for inspiration to present itself from the ether.
Through writing the narrative I recognized the dedication my parents and the rest of my supporting cast gave me. This gave me a strong feeling of appreciation which I’d like to express to them some day.
The most interesting sentence in my opinion is, “I was disappointed in myself for not getting further but then realized I had unintentionally memorized the entire chapter in my head.”
My Avatar
The reason I chose this photo is because I believe it encapsulates the theme I am trying to get across with my Website as well as my love for the outdoors. I think a picture can capture any moment in time. In doing so, pictures allow us to simultaneously analyze a moment as part of a sequence of events occurring in the world. I consider myself an outdoorsman, so I feel the picture also touches on my passion of the outdoors.
Some difficulties I encountered while editing and posting this image include making it a square image and finding out how to add text to an image.
“https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whirlpool_Rapids_Bridge_2. jpg”
