Week 2 – Creating an Avatar, Engagement Talk
Well, I gave it a try with two different ones. I also have my pirate somewhere, from a previous class, but I have not found it yet. When I do, I will add it on here.
The South Park avatar was harder to make look like me, and I wanted to just make something that I felt like I would like to have as my avatar. I’ve also had that same hair cut before and was definitely into punk rock when I was in high school. If I was a cartoon, this is what I would like to look like.
The other one was more easy to make look more similar to me, though I did have trouble adjusting things and finding a mouth that was most similar. The sizing all seemed off, and I did find you could make adjustments, this was what I settled on. And for her, I preferred a more professional outfit and hairdo, as I am wanting to become a therapist, so I figure she should look the part.
I have really enjoyed the books, so far. It was great to see that author of the “100 Things” book has a Ph. D. She also mentions the Design book that we are reading in the Digital Portfolio class, in her introduction. It is amazing to learn about how the human eye perceives things and how it downloads information through shapes.
The Watchmen has been fun to read and has me interested in looking for more similar types of books. Though, I find myself speeding through it, so I am trying to slow it down and enjoy it. I love to read and I love creativity, so both of the books are sparking my interest when it come to learning and developing my understanding of how to communicate with people through books.
As an avid reader and a hopeful future author, I really appreciate the vast differences of the books, ,while also feeling grateful for how they coincide with learning new skills.
Engagement, in my opinion, is exactly this… Communication with others. I hope to publish book sone day and hope to be able to engage the readers in my words, and then I hope to have discussions about topics I am passionate about in discussions like this one. Engaging with others can be done through media, books, or just in conversation. There are many forms of engagement that can be applied to everyday life. We engage with the world each day, if we get on our phones or computers, or even if we go to the store or to work. We even engage if we are just consuming the information others put out there. I really appreciate that there are so many forms of how we can engage with one another. There is so much possibility for it, nowadays.
https://southpark.cc.com/info/lv0nha/avatar
https://avatarmaker.com/female
https://piratetar.framiq.com/ (found this, thanks to Jordyn’s post! My old Pirate avatar was on there when I went to the link!)
Treasure Hunt 1 – Visual Vocabulary
Cool day at the beach
Module 2 – Engaging Fonts and Colors…
Learning about fonts and colors had been a long journey, it feels. I was really happy to see examples in the books of how different colors look with the font and backgrounds colors changed. I also valued the discussion of how the length of a page width can impact a persons speed or visual enjoyment. I understood how an emergency would be needed it be a longer strand of words, where something that did not need to be read so fast could be a shorter width, which is actually more pleasing.
Then getting to fonts, I have of course loved that tribal and natural feel and look of the font used for Avatar, but I do understand how it is difficult to read. As I do not have a favorite font or color, I do prefer using the Sans fonts and Calibri, with a simple black on a white background. Though, I am about to make my Adobe Portfolio, so I will be able to play around with different ones and see if I can find some combinations I prefer more so. Though, when reading on screens, I do prefer night mode. So I think an off white background might be more appealing to be, as white is pretty harsh for my eyes, at times.
Having appropriate fonts and colors can really make a difference on how your audience retains the information as well as the total quality of the workmanship you are putting out there. You don’t want to have a writing with a green background and yellow font, or with a font that is hard to see or read. There are so many different options, and it can be easy to be discouraged, but with clear minded and realistic approaches you can certainly find appropriate combinations of all of these to get clear writings out there. Communication is important, as is the ability to put forth communication in a way that will be easily understood and read. It should also be a fairly enjoyable experience. Be sure you take all of this into consideration when putting anything out there into the world.
Visual Vocabulary 2 – Audioception
2. High sound
Treasure Hunt 3
Visual Vocab 4
Video vocabulary 6
Treasure Hunt 5 – Taste
Treasure Hunt 6
Treasure Hunt 9 – Direction
Treasure Hunt 7
Treasure Hunt 8 – Scent
Treasure Hunt 4 – Sense of Touch
Treasure Hunt 10
Bonus
Module 3 – Story Form and Transmedia….
Over spring break, I took a writing class, and the teacher said that when writing a story, it is best to start with the saddest story, to get the audience on your side. Story telling is all about discovering ones self, but also about how to express ones self through words.
This can be quite an intricate expression of feelings, experiences, or whatever else a person may want to share or convey. Storytelling has long been how humans share and communicate and connect. Humans have done it by sitting around the fire, the dinner table, while sailing across the world on ships, or walking though deserts or forests. Storytelling is as much a part of us as is breathing.
From my experience, I have understood people to grasp more so onto what is relatable or familiar to them. If they can understand something another person says because they have had a similar experience, it makes it easier for them to grasp the story ort hold onto the information being given.
Emotions are another way people can really retain the information, as it is like an electric shock in the brain circuits.
Another way, from my own experiences, is scent. I still remember a sleepover from middle school where a friend brough over nail polish that smelled like CK One perfume, and that smell, or even the memory of it brings back the memories of the sleepover.
Our hearing is also another one, as is temperature. So one could say that our senses are a big part in our ability to absorb information or tap into memories and stories from certain sensory activations.
I am an emotional and visual writer. This is how I like to convey things, and make my story come alive.
One of my goals is to create Digital Storybooks, where the senses will be activated with audio and visual effects. This will help me be able to connect with my audience to really get their attention and hold it for longer than a few seconds.
There have been many inspirations for this, one being to help people with PTSD learn to heal and rewire their circuits to be able to live a more peaceful life.
Mission – The Hero’s Journey Virtual Experience and Immerisive Engagement Project Object Mood Board
When looking in Second Life, I found some neat places. I enjoy that there are so many different places to explore and be creative and engage with others. Some places are hard to get around in. I would like it if there were maps to see when going into places like the retail area, so we can have a good idea what is there and where we might want to go.
It would be great to have some areas to sit and chat with people, I think I have seen a couple, but I think it could use a few more areas, as I feel that would be comfortable and inviting for people who are getting used to this way of connecting with people.
I really like the areas where there are performances. They are easy to get around in and they are great open spaces, also.
My favorite place is the beach, or the woods. I also really enjoy the class studios and the DND areas.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Etopia%20Oceania/29/115/23
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bare%20Rose/135/40/30
Module 5 – Digital Storytelling Proposal Essay
Reading over my classmates posts, I noticed a lot of connection around discussing connection. It seems my classmates also want to find ways to help people connect and be able to work together. I liked reading about how one of my classmates mentions PTSD and how she also noticed others talking about it. What I a finding is that everyone is interested in helping others. This is my favorite part about humanity, how we can all come in and contribute with one another and make a positive difference in each others lives. We all have purpose and can work together to achieve great things.
How to Motivate People
This is a really important topic, as even I could use some help with motivation at times. It is something we each need, a focal point, something to look forward to and to just be able to focus out sights on, in general.
Having a vision helps me. It doesn’t have to be a solid vision, just a loose one that assists me in pushing myself towards that goal. I think that would be helpful for others, as well, to give them some focal points. Or to help them think about certain goals they have, to allow those images to sort of marinate in their heads, giving a reason to find the pieces that could bring it all together. This allows people to have a reason to push themselves.
I am also a big believer in having some key words and phrases, like “this is all temporary”, or “This too shall pass”. Another one is, “Everything is okay, and I am doing a good job.” P:ositive self-talk and focusing on how we will be moving on from this particular point in life is certainly motivating for me.
People need things to look forward to, they also need to get out of their heads and stop the negative self-talk. I believe in these two ways of getting people motivated, and I think they could be useful tools for so many different people in need of some good ground to start walking on. A first step on their journey ahead.
-M.
Mission – Immersive Engagement Proposal
1. Premise and Purpose – My objects are texture for a yoga mat and a yoga poster. They each have purpose for helping others take care of themselves and learn about ways to work on their physical and mental health. They are both engaging as they help people remember to move and they can also find ways to incorporate time with others or in nature through the use of these objects, for more ways to help them with their mental and physical health.
2. Audience and Market – The audience is anyone and everyone interested in more ways to take care of their whole being. They are entertaining in the way they help people to become more active and Intune with themselves and maybe also with nature and other people. I think this project would appeal to them because so many people are looking for more ways to become active and engaged in physical things that can allow them to move their bodies. Even with it being in Second Life, I feel they will inspire people to get outside or even just get up and move more. I think it would also inspire people to find other people to be active with.
3. Medium, Platform, and Genre – These were made for Second Life. Maybe first person view point? I never really got how to explain that. I guess it is like VR in a way.
4. Narrative and Gaming Elements – There are no real gaming elements, just Second Life.
5. User’s Role and Point of View (POV) – The user would be reading the poster to learn about a handful of yoga poses, then using the yoga mat and their avatar would be able to try to do some yoga, stretching or meditation.
6. Characters – A non-player would just be someone who I show all of my work to so they can see what I have created. They may or may not be in second life, they would just be an observer.
7. Structure and Interface -There is no real start or end, necessarily. It is just how a person looks at it all. One can just observe or they can be interactive. It starts and ends when and where the user or observer starts looking at it all and maybe interacts, or just moves along.
8. Storyworld and Sub-settings – This is all in Second Life, so it is just based around all of that. There is no specific time. It is on the beach currently, then I think they will be in a different area. They are apart of the health and wellness area.
9. User Engagement – This is all fully for the user or observer to decide. It will be determining on if the user or observer wants to engage and how much and for how long. I hope it will bring the users to a place of feeling like they are brought to a peaceful place, even if just observing and looking at it all.
10. Overall Look and Sound – The poster will have yoga poses and descriptions of the poses benefits. The yoga mat texture will be calming colors that bring a sense of peace.
11. Interactive Scavenger Hunt – There could be stones hiding with images of different yoga poses and when a person finds one they must try to do that yoga pose and hold it for a few seconds or so. Maybe the stone can have a number on the opposite side with a number of how long they need to stay in that position, like a meditation. For example, the number 3 and the finder must hold that position and count to three.
12. Marketing of The Hero’s Journey – I think it could be shared on Facebook and maybe on other social sites. I don’t think any mentorship would be necessary.
Previs and Prototyping
When given the options for objects to create, I decided I wanted to make a yoga mat and a meditation pillow. It turned out there was already a yoga mat in Second life, so I created a texture wrap for it. Then my second object needed to be a poster.
Since the area I chose was health and wellness, I wanted to focus on meditation and exercise. Yoga is all of that. I also wanted to highlight the benefits of certain yoga poses, so that is how the poster came about. It was a great suggestion from my professor.
Mood Board
Monopoly Pieces
Module 9 – Our Work Together Essay
Having started this program in the winter quarter of 2019, I was able to see how things changed over the course of those few months as the quarantine came about and became a life changing event for the whole world.
This video show how people were able to come together in virtual spaces to connect. Not only did they connect during a time of need for the shut downs, but it became a way for people to discover new ways of feeling less anxiety and self-consciousness about themselves.
I personally deal with high anxiety and social anxiety is a big factor in what keeps me homebound, but I have enjoyed the benefits of joining second life and learning ways to connect with people online through these virtual worlds.
Creating projects and having to present them in second life has been less nerve racking, as I have become to feel more self-confident through the safety I feel being in second life. It helps me not feel quite as on the spot, being that I am an avatar and not there is physical presence.
It has also been a great experience to go to conferences and other group events in second life, and not feeling the energy overload of being in person with a bunch of people.
I think the best way to market our superhero’s journey would be through posters in second life and in posts and stories on social media.
Reflection and Immersive Engagement Post
The Hero’s Journey consists of 12 steps that take a Hero through many challenges and obstacles which guides them through their journey to their goals. Below you will find the steps along with the story of my own Hero’s Journey.
- Step 1: The Ordinary World before the Adventure Begins
- Step 2: Call to Adventure
- Step 3: Refusal of the Call
- Step 4: Meeting with the Mentor
- Step 5: Crossing the First Threshold into the Extraordinary World
- Step 6: Discovery of Superpowers and Challenges including Tests, Allies, and Enemies
- Step 7: Adaptation of Perspective and Approach
- Step 8: The Ordeal Reveals Resources and Inner Strengths
- Step 9: The Unforeseen Reward
- Step 10: The Road Back and Metamorphosis
- Step 11: The Resurrection Hero Evaluation and Reflection
- Step 12: Return with Education Elixir and Becoming the Mentor
Step One – The Ordinary World Before the Adventure Begins
It started twelve years ago, when I began at Peninsula College to work on obtaining my Associates Degree. Fast forward to 2019 when I finally found this amazing Multimedia Communications program. Off and on over the last four year, I have faced many challenges, some that even made it so I had to take a break from school for a bit. Through challenges we find out who we are and they allow us to really learn to see our capabilities.
This quarter has not been without its own challenges. between health issues, mental struggles and car troubles, I have had to learn to keep my balance while trying to avoid failure. With this being my final quarter in this program, I have been very nervous about finishing. Along with my fears of failure, I have also dealt with fears of success, as I hear many others talking about dealing with imposter syndrome. What comes next?
Through this class I have learned a lot about how to share my story in ways other than just with words. This is really helpful as so many are visual learners and I for one am also.
Before school, my ordinary life was all about work and trying to find where I fit in within this great big world. Having passions that go from mental health awareness to making jewelry, taking pictures and writing poetry, I have had a hard time figuring out how I could come up with a career that would keep me interested and challenged enough to allow me to grow and be creative. This is how Art Therapy came about.
Step Two – Call to Adventure
At the beginning of any adventure, one must always remember to visualize their goals. This was where I struggled a lot of times, as my goals were all over the place, but once I learned to narrow it all down I was able to see a vision that helped me to get going on my adventure of my journey with school.
Having challenges that made it difficult for me to get into school, I was able to get help getting started. Then I faced life challenges that kept me hovering around with whether or not I even wanted to be in school. Having a goal is absolutely necessary.
Once I learned how I could compile all my interests into one healing career, I was able to have a stronger purpose for succeeding in school. With failing classes, jumping from one program to another, I was lost and drowning. I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was not sure how I could make something of myself that would be helpful for others, as well as myself. Once I had that vision and my goals set, I was ready and the Adventure felt like it was finally ready to begin.
This class showed me ways to jump through the hoops full of flames, while having to hold a stack of books and keep it all together with each new obstacle. Yet, with bog goals, each challenge felt like another level in a video game that was preparing me for the future.
Step Three – Refusal of the Call
Refusal of the call feels like denial of a calling, which I can certainly feel resonates with me. Feeling mixed feelings about how to follow through on my career goals, has been a challenge for me. I keep finding myself jumping around with different ideas, or even whether or not to continue with school.
When you feel you are pulled so strongly into a certain direction, it can feel intimidating. It seems like I have been running away from my own intuition for several years. This last quarter has been full of many thoughts about what I want to do when I graduate from this program. And as I do plan on continuing to further my educational journey, I am looking forward to exploring some work in the Multimedia and Graphic Design doing marketing for small businesses.
Step Four – Meeting with the Mentor
Mentors are wonderful. Each of my professors have been helpful mentors on this journey. Having a mentor is really important when one is seeking to find helpful insight along the journey of life. Mentors help guide us through the twists and turns that come up. They are able to help us see things in a different light that we may not have otherwise been able to recognize.
There was a really important mentor that I cam e across on my journey last year. She had been the temporary person for the Students with Disabilities. When I needed to do my re-evaluation, she asked me what I was going to do with all of my schooling and interests. I told her I was still trying to figure it out. Which she followed up with suggesting I become and Art therapist. She told me I would just need to apply for the Behavioral therapy program, which was just about to open up at Peninsula college. Then I would need to get my Masters in Counseling, and I could bring all my interests together to help people through art.
Sometimes it just takes one person to help you see all the dots and helps you connect them. Mentors can be people that are in your life on a regular basis, or they can just pop in and out like a shooting star.
Step Five – Crossing the Threshold
Starting school felt like a dream come true. I loved my classes and the teachers. I met great friends and learned a lot about myself, all while seeing how strong I could be when challenges arose.
When we take a step into a new world, we don’t always know what to expect. It is in these times we must remember what we are working towards and look deep within ourselves to find the meaning behind this new journey.
It is not always easy to take a jump onto a new path. There are always going to be challenges that arise to keep us on our toes. Though, we must keep pushing and let the challenges mold us and bring out our greatest assets.
Step Six – Discovering of Superpowers
Each Super Hero has a superpower, mine has been Tenacity, as I will not give up.
After struggling through many obstacles, failing classes, raising two kids and experiencing many traumatic events and experiences, I never lost hope in myself and my ambitions.
Years of switching college classes, and programs of study, I still kept coming back and kept fighting hard to get to my goal, which was to graduate with my Associates Degree. It was important to me to learn new skills and gain the ability to learn how to better myself as a human being and as a mother. It was important to me to succeed so my kids could see my example of hard work and persistence.
Perseverance through challenges is how all the greats were able to find success in their battles, and I was not going to be one who sat on the sidelines while everyone else fought for their goals. I wanted to get in there and fight my own battles. I wanted to conquer in ways that I would not, at that time, have dreamed possible.
It was through switching my program of study until I could no longer switch again, and writing letter after letter to the Financial Aid office that I was able to see my own determination, as well as those supporters who helped pay for my classes, or were just there believing in me as I tried to find my way through the thick brush on my journey. We don’t always know what we are here to do, but having supporters and guides is absolutely necessary for any path.
Many times I felt like I was having to climb back up the mountain from the very bottom, over and over again. Maybe it was to show myself what I really wanted it and wanted to feel like I deserved it, o I have to keep falling off that cliff until I realized I really could get to the top, even if it took a bit of help.
Sometimes a superpower is also the gift of support and friendships that allow us to move forward with more ease of not having to do it all alone so much of the time. there really is something special about having a community and care from those you surround yourself with.
Step Seven – Adaption
This has definitely come into play as I have had to learn to adapt to the different ways my brain works. Each of us has different ways of learning , none of which are wrong. We each experience different things in life that impact us in different ways. We are also each born with a unique DNA that also goes into play with how we learn, behave and comprehend things.
For a person like me, CPTSD takes a big role in how I am able to learn. Finding ways to work with this has been, and still is, like learning how to play a new game without a rule book. It is a challenge.
Always remember to have patience with yourself and others, as we each are going through things, or have gone through things that can make us different than what society deems as “normal”.
It is through this way of thinking that I have found ways of working around my uniqueness, like taking multiple walks a day, having a clean environment that I am working in, and being sure to get rest and have some structure that also allows for some flexibility.
Adaption is human nature, but we also need to allow ourselves pace and patience when we must learn to change for the sake of our new surroundings or journey.
Step Eight – The Ordeal Reveals Resources and Inner Strengths
Through these last 12 years of working on and off on my associates degree I would never have found the resources that I found if I hadn’t have failed. Through my failures I found support and helpful resources to help pay for my classes, my books and then to also help with other expenses like vehicle repairs.
It was also though these failures that I learned a great deal about my inner strength and determination to succeed. It is through many challenges that one can truly find their inner strength. Without challenges we would not be able to see what we are capable of overcoming or what we are capable of in general. Obstacles come about for a reason, and instead of seeing them in a negative light, we can see them as tests to help push us towards our greatest potential. Obstacles help us grow and test our strength and they force us to think differently.
We never know what life is going to expect of us, so we must learn to be ready to face really hard things, even when we are exhausted and feel like we cant handle anything else, sometimes that is when we can get tested and pushed harder to see our fullest potential. We never know what we are capable of. We never know where obstacles will help us grow. Yet, we do know they will bring out the most powerful versions of ourselves as they show us our inner strength.
Step Nine – The Unforeseen Reward
When you go through hardships, at first it just feels frustrating, overwhelming and scary. Though, after you have learned about how they help you grow, it becomes more of a strength training session. You start to see the benefit of the struggles that life throws out at you and you can start observing yourself and your reactions to them.
The unforeseen rewards are those not physical, but mental and emotional strengths gained as you start to change your perspective of how you look at obstacles. After a while you start to find some enjoyment in the obstacles rather than continuing to see them as dreadful and miserable. As you realize they have positive outcomes along with some of the stressors they can cause at first, or during the experiences.
Through obstacles a super hero will always gain humility and find more appreciation for the whole journey of life.
Step Ten – The Road Back to the Metamorphous
As graduation sis just days away, I am working hard so I can make it to the end. For the last few months, IT has been becoming more and more clear to me that this part of my journey is coming to and end. It has been extremely emotional. This program has taken me four years to complete. The teachers and students have been like family and I have learned so much about myself and what I am capable of through the many ebbs and flows of this journey.
This summer I won’t be taking any college classes, and I will be working on planning and starting my small business endeavors. This coming Fall, I will be stating a new program at Peninsula college. That will be focused on Behavioral Therapy.
Stepping away from school for a couple months is going to be a big change for me. My normal routines will need to shift as I find a new way of going about my days. Though, I will, most likely, have to take some classes that don’t have to do with the college, I will have to take time to reflect on all that I have accomplished and work on continuing to plan and visualize where I am going.
Once a Hero has completed one part of their journey, they must return home and remember where they came from. They will look at everything differently, yet still remember all the challenges it took to get to where they are now. This is most certainly how I feel and I am incredibly grateful for all the experiences that have lead me to where I am today.
Step Eleven – The Resurrection Hero Evaluation and Reflection
At the end of a journey, sometimes a Hero can end up facing one more big challenge when it seems like all the challenges are done and over. This is where I feel I am at, as I am hovering around failing this class.
This quarter has had many challenges that have taken me away from my responsibilities as a student, which has been incredibly stressful. From an infected tooth to the tooth being pulled, getting very sick and dealing with car issues, it was one thing after another.
Life will always bring challenges, yet we still have to continue to juggle the rest of life.
Finding ways to catch up has been tricky, and exhausting. It seems staying up and working until 4am seems to be the trick. Or also not being able to sleep and just getting up and working in the early morning hours. I have been doing my best to work diligently and stay focused while sorting through all the work I have left to do.
My grandmother just passed away, and that was quite heartbreaking. My parents are flying the long distance from Virginia to see me graduate, even after having dealt with that recent tragedy, so I really don’t want to let them down by not passing this class. It would be a let down to me, also, after all these years of hard work.
I am hoping I can make it through the rest of these assignments so I can wear that wear that cap and gown this weekend.
I have been reflecting on my school journey. When I was pregnant with my 17-year old son, I started my educational journey at a cosmetology school. After doing that a few more times, I decided to start at Peninsula College to work on my Associates in Arts.
It has been quite a long journey, but I am incredibly proud of myself for having gone through everything I have gone though and continued to push through it all to get to this place, even though I have no idea if I will get through this class. I have not given up, and that is the best gift to myself.
Step Twelve – Return with Education Elixir and Becoming the Mentor
After a Hero goes on a journey, they learn a lot of lessons that help them become a mentor for others. On my journey, I have come across many people who were interested in going back to school and I was able to help them find their way to get started. It made me feel a lot of pride for knowing so much about the college and all their resources.
When I was a senior year in high school, I had transferred over here from a school in Virginia and needed an extra credit so I took a Law and Criminal Justice class at Peninsula College. That was back in 2003. Then in 2009, I took a Caregiving class at PC. And having been going there on and off since 2012, for my associates degree, and other programs, I have been there for quite a while. Knowing so much about the school and what they have to offer, the faculty, the classes and program, I have felt a lot of pride for being able to help guide others in ways to help them on their journey. It has made me even more grateful for all the years I have been taking classes at PC, and for the knowledge I have accumulated over these last 21 years.
It has been a really wonderful feeling to be able to help others with knowing where to find help on campus or just in general to get help on their journey to their higher education goals. Many times I have thought about getting a job as a campus navigator to help guide students or people who come to the campus in search of different things, or are just curious about what it has to offer.
My goal is to become an Art therapist because I love to help people. There is quite a bit more schooling left for me to do, but I have been hearing that it is going to be a very healing process. That is what I love about school, it helps you heal and grow, then you can use that to help others, and repay the universe for the gifts you received from your education.
Going to school allows a person to work on themselves in ways that helps them grow like not much else could. It is a process of exploring one’s soul and in the process of doing this, they find themselves becoming a guide for others. It is like the saying, “When the student becomes the teacher”. We learn lessons, deal with struggles and fins a peace withing the chaotic world and are able to share it with others we meet who are in need of a guide or mentor for whatever they are going through.
Being a mentor is an important part of the Hero’s journey, as it helps them give back in the ways that can help guide others, like they were guided throughout their journey.
Book Report Essay
Reading 100 Things was a wonderful experience. I loved that the author had her Ph.D. in psychology. The way she explained things helped me to expand my understanding of design and made me think of things in different ways. She goes into great detail about dopamine, social media, to different aspects on our vision. I have also enjoyed learning more about how the brain works. It really makes a lot of sense to learn how more mistakes can happen when a person is under a lot of stress. I tend to wait until there is the pressure of little time left before I work on assignments, which is a trauma response. I still have more to read about this book, but I am grateful for the way the author writes, for her way of communicating makes it easier to comprehend all this information.
The Watchmen was a bit much for me, but what I did see was a lot of strong creative expression. It takes a lot of work and self-trust to create graphic novels. Taking a story and drawing it out takes a lot of patience and creativity.
The first time I was introduced to an adult graphic novel was in my English class. It was about a man who kept dreaming he was a young black boy in slave times and that brought him many challenges. That book really hit me hard and it strengthened my empathy.
Taking a different stride with Tin Tin was nice, but it was not so great at bringing my interest in. IT also reminded me of ,y kids childhoods, which had some trauma around it, so even though it was a mild read, it still took me down some challenging roads. Though, I do appreciate the subtleness and childlike simplicity, it just didn’t capture my attention as The Watchmen and the other one did. There is something about drama, and adrenaline that grabs a person and keep the brain interested.
When I was younger, I would make little cartoon books, and I would love to do that again. I love how we can create visual stories and how it really brings in the reader. I love visual storytelling.
Side Quest
While developing a unique career, I find it hard not to want to have multiple side businesses to keep my mind exploring and engaged in my creative interests.
One idea I have had is to create a marketing business. This could allow me to help other businesses get more eyes on what they have to offer.
I think it is important to have an expanded mindset of what we are capable of. Sometimes we really have no idea what we are capable of.
Along with a marketing business I have also wanted to do more with my jewelry and photography. This could be a lot to juggle, which is certainly why my mind has been overwhelmed lately.
With the marketing business I would find a way to have a few accounts that I can get started with and get my toes wet. Then I could see how I could handle throwing in some photoshoots, and then find a way to bring my jewelry in along with that.
I have thought of ways to hire other people and also team up with co-creators to be able to find ways to lighten my load and bring abundance into someone else’s life as well.
With all the things I do, I hope to bring abundance of creativity and kindness. Hoping I can make a positive impact on others and bring out beauty from life in ways that weren’t always noticed before.
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