Art folio board complete

Hey guys it is Casey back here again with yet another post where today I am in art where today I will explain all of my works that I have done over the last year for my folio and although I do not remember the exact date of which these were made but I can give a rough estimate so enjoy

Term 1



These were the first ones off the board that I made using watercolor pencils and they are meant to show the past in my theme with artists using paint and brush most of the time instead of graphite. These were all in the first few weeks and so that is where the entire board began to blossom into something Epic.






This Dragon is the very first that I drew which sprang into a motif that is repeated a lot through this artboard so buckle up. It is supposed to be a drawing that reflects humanity always referring to nature when drawing creatures and the Dragon is no exception because I used a crocodile as a reference image and so this is where the dragon motif began.

If you are into tabletop role-playing games then you know it is the DND ampersand logo an is meant to be that over time, the monsters that kept you up all night millennia ago are now just a thing in pop culture with Dungeons & Dragons being such a pioneer in that minus the satanic panic of the 1980s. Just because a game has demons as an enemy does not mean that the game is practicing satanism general public of the ’80s.

But you get the idea.

This was the first of the starships that I have on this board with it representing the future portion of my theme because if we are going to go interstellar then we need something to get there. It is also a machine of war as you can tell by the guns on the front because humanity has a tendency to go to war over very small things and that is inevitably gonna happen in our space-age when we get there.

Term 2

This little doodle page was something that cam out of me experimenting into the doodle art category in my personal sketchbook and I thought that it looked like something that I could fit into the board. I did that because it would represent artist’s imaginations from all walks of life because I think this would be in the minds of every artist with a lot of ideas all confined into the space no bigger than a small box that we call a brain.

This was the next dragon to enter the ranks of the artboard and is one of my favorite pieces and I experimented with a new technique in order to give it the look of energy seeping from the cracks in its armor. The technique was super simple but man it is really damn effective when done right. I also had some doodles thrown in there because it shows in a visual way, many ideas coming together to form one which is what happens whenever you get a bunch of visionaries in on the same idea, they will suggest more until you get a final product.

This ship is actually an older design that I did in my personal sketchbook a while back which I decided to redraw because we sometimes like to look to the past in order to look into the future and with this starfighter being an older design being revamped, it fits perfectly with what I just said.

This is another one the old ship designs that I decided to resurrect but I decided to tweak a few of the design elements from the original because that is what happens over time as one thing gets transformed into another as time goes on. It also made a classmate of mine think of an old show that had numbered starships and we could not think of what it was until we struck thunderbirds which was not intentional at all but just happened naturally like a lot of things in life.

This is really the only other drawing that is in the present from a timeline perspective on this side of the entire folio and is a gamer playing on his PC and next to him is his Avatar. I actually got the idea from the YouTuber Jazza who did this long before me and I got the spark to do this from him. That is like a thing in the art world with artists inspiring other artists which happens everywhere all throughout history and even to this day.

This is another one of my favorites and is part of the future and trails from the inspiration thing I said from the Gamer piece and the whole idea is that we have had myths of Dragons for centuries and they could also spread into the space-age aswell. I also decided to go with a more cosmic color scheme because it fits with space and is visually pleasing to look at and maybe this is how people of the future will see Dragons-Who knows?.

Term 3

This was the first Dragon for this side of the board and it is basically how you would see someone draw a modern dragon and when I say that I mean artistically. The way the dragon is meant to be is a beast with a lot of detail placed into it which is what we tend to do in art these days unless you are a minimalist but it is the modern-day interpretation of a Dragon in my mind.

This was another Dragon that is meant to be a counterpart to the Dragon up above as it is a medieval interpretation with it being very simple with not a lot of detail. Another thing about it is using body parts from other animals which is most prominent in the legs which are bird legs which makes sense when you think about it. It also a period in time when Dragons would have received their signature features which are still recognized to this day.

This simply did not have any placement on the timeline other than the present as it was just my signature made from doodles which is an artistic way of doing words which a lot of companies do a bunch these days in logos. It also says who the artist is because you see the art style used in that artist’s work which is a thing that all artists do.

This was the final starship that I had and I went for something different and that was giving it a background which I am lacking throughout the entire board so I decided to do that here. It only really connects to the future section because it is a starship and what other era are you gonna find one of those in ?. It also has more detail than the others because starships have a lot of detail in them a good amount of the time.

This one is supposed to be a variety of time periods which you can see most prominently in the border which is a multitude of time periods along with an ouroboros as one of them which represents time. I also made it look like it is centuries old by doing the wet Tea Bag trick in order to give it that parchment look and it turned out great which I am happy with plus this map is going to be part of my next DND campaign so might as well make it look good.

This was one of my favorite works as it just came out really good and I thought of doing a Phoenix mostly because of the fact that they represent time and renewal which with a theme like mine, how could I not do a Phoenix. I also had it so that it was crossing the board connecting the two boards in a visually pleasing way

 

This is supposed to be the end part of a visual story that correlates with the theme of past present future. this is the future section of the story and I worked backwards because I tend to make story's better like that and this is no exception. If you cannot put the story together, it is basically humanity has fallen to it's greatest enemy of dragons as you can see on the top of the cliff. This was the first idea that I had for the story and so that is why it was the first to be made.

This is a zodiac sign or more specifically my zodiac sign of capricorn and I decided to do it because of its correlation to time, more specifically certain times through out the year and so that is why i did this stylized version of it.

Term 4

These two were done together on the same page because I was running out of space on the board itself but regardless, it still worked well.the top one is set at the beginning during the end of the last ice age with a Dracolich rising from the ice and battling all those who dare come near. The one on the bottom is set during the medieval period and is the reverse of the humanity extinction which is essentially a nice parallel because we only rise to fall.

Anyway this is what the entire board looks like as a whole

Okay so longest post ever. So I hope you guys enjoyed me rant about each artwork for 1500 words and please share with your family and friends and I will see you all next time bye bye

Hey guys it is Casey back here again with yet another post where today I am in English and have been given the task of setting up a set of goals in which to complete during the 3 weeks of term 4 if you can even call it a term at that point. So what you see below is the result of that simple brief so enjoy.

Term 4 Goals & Action Items

What are my goals for the next 3 weeks?

•  Completing my reading logs
•  Finishing up all the stuff that I may or may not have finished
• Finishing up my wood tech project

What are my action items for this week? (steps I am going to take towards achieving my goals)

•  Focusing more of my time to typing up the reading logs
•  Finding any work that I have to finish
• Focus more on my own work more than my friends

Who will help me to accomplish these goals?

•  Teachers
•  My stubborn demeanor

How are they going to help me accomplish these goals? 

•  By offering advice to me regarding certain aspects of my work
• By Devoting more time to various projects
• I need these credits and I have a tendency to push myself t finish them

How am I going to help others to accomplish their goals? 

•  By encouraging them throughout their project working time
•   Tell them to stop talking to their friends and actually get on with their work
• Inform the teacher if they still will not do their work

Anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this post and I will see you all in the next post bye bye

Reading log III The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Hey guys it is Casey back here again with yet another post where today I am in English with my third reading log complete which means I am halfway done with there so yay for me.Anyway the book I have chosen this time is the Maze runner by James Dashner and I loved it and you should all go read it but anyway here are my opinions.

This book is about a teenage boy who only remembers his own name as he comes up into the glade which is at the center of a colossal maze.In the maze, there is giant cybernetic scorpion-like creatures called grievers who kill anyone inside the maze after dark and now, Thomas and the other gladers must fight their way to freedom or starve to death inside this test set by W.I.C.K.E.D.

I personally love the character of Thomas because he is really the audience in a sense because he comes up from the box only knowing his name and so wonders where he is which is pretty much anybody getting into a new series making him in an uncommon way, relatable. Because of his amnesia, he is curious about both the glade and the maze just like the audience and so we learn about the world at the same pace as Thomas. This aspect of the book makes Thomas relatable because when you enter a new place then you are going to want to know as much about it as you can.Thomas also excels in rising above the others by becoming a runner in as little as a week as opposed to other gladers where it takes months to become one. Even though most people can not relate to this aspect, it still makes the audience cheer Thomas on and they want to see him beat the maze and the grievers all so he and the rest of the gladers can escape and find a real home other than the prison that is the Maze.

I also think that the Maze itself is a great setting because the way the maze is described to the audience makes it feel like it has been there for centuries and maybe even millennia.Just the description of the maze further helps make it a great setting and what Newt says really solidifies what it is.”Out there is a maze; Newt whispered, eyes wide as if in a trance.Everything we do - our whole life, Greenie-revolves around the maze. Every lovin’second of every lovin’ day we spend in honor of the maze, tryin’ to solve somethin’ that's not shown to us it has a bloody solution ya know ?. And we wanted to show ya why it’s not to be messed with. Show ya why the buggin’ walls close shut every night. Show ya why you should never, never find your butt out there”. That one quote in my opinion sums up the maze as perfectly as you could probably do and in a way you could say that the maze is both a protector and a tormentor with it closing shut every night to protect the glade from the grievers and a tormentor because of those unlucky enough to find themseelves in the maze after dark. The whole idea of the setting reminds me of the greek legend of the Minotaur imprisoned inside a maze  and the gladers are essentially in the same position. Overall I think that the collossal maze is a great setting in general and the main moral of it could be that the greatest protector can also be the greatest tormentor.

In the end I honestly think that both the setting and the main character help create not only a great world but a magnificent coming of age story. The coming of age metaphor in my mind comes with escaping the maze and the glade is your current world in which you are a kid but out there beyond the maze is adulthood and the road to getting there is challenging just like the maze itself.I think that this is a great metaphor for the intended audience which is young adults and they can learn from this book that even though the road to adulthood is long and challenging, it is nessecary in life because you cannot stay a kid forever. I think that James Dashner had wrote a great interpretation of a great metaphor and that many people can have that even though they would want to stay a kid forever, they cannot and adulthood is just another nessecary gear in the delicate machine that is life.

Anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this post so please share with anybody you think may like this post and I will see you all in the next post bye bye.

Hey guys it is Casey back here again with yet another post where I am in Art today with yet another update on my port folio which is down here

Also sorry about my foot being in the way.Basically the why behind my work is past,present and future because we are always thinking about them.So I decided to do my port folio based around that and so I did the old looking paintings up top to the left as the past.The dragons and doodle works as the present and finally the starships as the future because tht seems to be where we are heading as of this moment.

Anyway I hope you all enjoyed this update and I will see you all in the post Bye Bye.

Reading log #1 Magisterium the iron trial by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare(spoilers)

Hey guys it is Casey back here with yet another post where today I will post the first of my reading (b)logs where basically I read a book of my choice and form an opinion on it and I chose Magisterium the iron trial as my first book so I hope you all enjoy.

This book is about Callum Hunt who has had a problem with his leg ever since he was a baby & now 12 years after that event he tries to fail the Magisterium's iron trial because of all the stuff his father has told him but he is a boy who fails at failing and gets himself the opposite of what he wanted.Call is now enrolled at the Magisterium and is caught in the fact that his life may not be as it seems and he gradually learns secrets which lead into more mystery than before.

Opinion 1
The character of Callum Hunt is an interesting one as he is not your typical protagonist as he does not want to learn magic because of what his father has told him as opposed to every other protagonist who would jump at the opportunity.For example when he is in the iron trial he repeatedly tries to fail but accidentally succeeds for some reason that Master Rufus does not explain in the book but my assumption is that he wanted to teach Call how to control his abilities & to reveal to him what he can truly do.
I think that it is meant to show that people who are really bad at something can rise up & potentially be one of the best at that thing with the right teacher and training and I can sort of relate to Call as he is an outcast much like me and he seems to outperform everybody else but not in the way that you would expect which even though I cannot connect with I would find admirable and the fact that he attempts to find loopholes is something that I would definitely do & I feel like we would really connect that way.

Opinion 2
The primary location of the book is also unique in a way because it is a unique form of magical school mostly because it is a complex of tunnels and caverns built inside of a mountain and it is so complex that you can get lost easily as a first year which is stated about halfway through the book by Call,Tamara & Aaron.I like the setting because of all the wonders it has ranging from magical pools of water to caverns big enough for 3 Dragons which is absolutely nuts even for fantasy and their whole elemental magic system is awesome as well because their is a lot you can do with it and in my mind would be considered a soft magic system.A soft magic system is a magic system with very few rules stated meaning its limits are unknown.The elementals are also something that I love as every fantasy story needs at least a few magical creatures and the elementals are perfect for the roll.
To put things simply, I love the magisterium and its unique location with a tonne of possibilitys and if I was there then I would probably try to see everything it has to offer.I guess the lesson you can take away from this is that every location is unique in its own way with some places being more unique  than others.

This books location can speak to everyone because it could be like a Utopia for us & who would not want to go there and I guess the lesson you can take away from this is that no matter where you come from ,you can always find a place that truly speaks to you

Anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this post and quick heads up, there will be 5 more of these throughout the year so stay tuned for that and I will see you all in the next post bye bye.

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Hey guys it is Casey back here again with yet another post where today I am in ART where I have to update you guys on what we have been doing for our port folio.Now this is basically the current plan for the composition of all the drawings and I do have another one but it just does not fit in with the rest all that well so it is not going to be used.Basically this is it at the moment
And just FYI the way it is gonna work is that every quarter of the folio board is gonna be for each term and this is term one at the moment which only has a couple of weeks left(YAY).Anyway I think that will do it for now so I hope you guys enjoyed this post be sure to share it with our family and friends and I will see you all in the next post bye bye.
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Hey guys it is Casey back here again with yet another post where today I am in English where we had to make a slideshow of various filming techniques and explain them.Now I do not know how to post a slideshow to a blog post so if this does not work then I am sorry

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qTCULeazI3dQkYhF2DRdKjjlCaIc9WYdP8jGE5zU7Pk/edit#slide=id.p
Anyway I think that is it so please share with your family and friends who you think would like this and I will see you in the next post bye bye
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Phoenix Arts YT

Hey guys it is Casey back here again with yet another post with this one being the first of 2019 even though I was supposed to do one earlier but I never did so yeah,anyways I am basically showing you my progress on art history that we are doing.Art history is where we basically research 2 artist and we just interpret what a piece of theirs means.I chose Kelcy Taratoa and Jacob Yikes and have been told to update you guys on my progress even though I am basically done. Also to be clear,the purple text is me describing something while the green text is me interpreting

Anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this post also check out my YouTube channel here PhoenixArtsYT where i do drawings every week and that is about so please share this post with your family and friends who you'd think would like this post and I will see you all in the next post bye bye.