Class exercises

 Some time ago in class we did two exercises that I completely forgot to post about. This post will be a quick recap of the tasks and how I have approached them. 

The first exercise was to draw 9 circles and create small images - sketches with things that represent my project. Under each circle I had to write a word that explains what is in the image. This exercise was there to help to connect words with images and see and understand the meaning behind images. 

I chose the words: fear, stress, anxiety, judgement, help, night, pressure, sadness and pretending. I have added illustrations that sort of explain the word I have written. This activity reminded me a little bit of the game where a participant needs to illustrate a word or a phrase for the rest to guess. Making those little drawings really helped me realize how much power and how many words are in simple illustrations. This was definitely a task that helped me see how I can illustrate words. 

The next task was to find a photograph or an illustration and change its meaning (message) by using images and words. I am in quarantine at the moment, therefore I was not able to get a newspaper and take an image from there, but I found an image in my first term's EAP book. The image had two fish tanks and a fish jumping from one to the other. It was escaping everything she knew for a new fish tank. 

I had to change the message of the illustration, therefore I took a fine liner and drew piranhas in the second fish tank. 

I changed the message from a positive message about changing the perspective to a 'think before you jump' message. I think I have illustrated it quite literally and I really like that about the image. I like that it is literal and the fish that jumped from their fish tank were not thinking before literally jumping from one to another. 

I think I took words and manipulated them so they fit well with the illustration. I think manipulating words and using its double meaning is very interesting and I think I did a great job with this exercise.