Curricular Response

I believe this project shows my creativity as well as my ability to formulate and make my ideas real. This project allowed me to express my ideas around heavy topics in a method that I am extremely comfortable with. This project also showed off a bit of my writing skills, though my explanation isn’t visible on this edublog. I feel as though the symbols I used in this image aren’t great, though. They’re symbols that accurately represent each culture, yes, but I feel as though they’re too obvious, in a way. I want to get better with the symbolism in both my writing and in my art, implying and representing things in a better, unique way.

Core Competency Reflection

I find completing assignments both easy and difficult, depending on what I’m doing. If I’m doing a creative project on its own, I have little to no struggles. However, if I’m doing a creative project with a written component attached to it, or if I’m assigned something a while before it’s actually due, I get into a certain mindset where I want to do the fun parts and save the boring parts until the assignment is due. Drawing can take me hours, but it’s something I enjoy, even if it’s for school. In comparison to written assignments, I enjoy writing a lot more if I’m able to weave stories instead of taking something that already exists and analyze it. Despite the fact that there are plenty of opportunities for me to be creative in this course, I still find myself wanting more non-analytical assignments. This is a bad habit of mine that I would like to start to break in the last two weeks of this course, as well as in the next semester.