finally FINALLYYYYY I MAKE AN ART PAGE YAY!!!!!!!! i thought it would never come to this lol
ok so the dealio was that I just so happened to download all my art projects from my art class for my portfolio and i was like "hey! I have all these things laying around, why should I delete them? Might as well put 'em on my website!" and.... Here we are now!
expect this page to never be fully finished. I'll always add some more stuff ofc but it's gonna be very sparce because i'm so freaking busy all da time ugh
My Design Journal!
In my art class (specifically in art 2), we have these things called 'Design Journals' that are reused books for collaging in assignments called 'Spreads'. You with me? ok cool 
I fucking go so hard with these I LOVE COLLAGING!!!!!!!!! I mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmight post my spreads from my other sketchbooks but ehh I don't think so oh well
Front Cover
I was kinda going for a "flesh and mind" theme with the cover of my design journal and i freaking cooked bro I cooked!!! But fun fact: this wasn't actually supposed to be the front cover. It's only the front cover because I messed up LOL XD I'll explain it more under the back cover but 4 now you don't know.
I kinda zoned out while making it. There's a bunch of random stuff on it like the washi tape I got from New Mexico (long story) and the chorus lyrics from Once In A Lifetime by The Talking Heads. The 'guns' on the top of the cover are magazine cut outs that are actually a bunch of camera equipment and there's supposed to be something reading "Information is ammunition" but i think it somehow rippped or something. Damn. Those figures on the top and bottom are kinda meant to be me but it's very loosely based. It's kinda just more for random symbolic meaning but it really doesn't matter. It's whatever. :p
Back Cover
My initial idea was to make the teeth in the center of the cover and it was supposed to look super cool and shit but then I went and made it upside down. My stupidity strikes again. Damn actually how did I fumble that bad it's actually insane
But I clutched it!! I managed to clutch it by just flipping it right side up and doing the other part like nothing happened and I guess it worked?? You can barely tell anyways. But anyways I like this cover a lot. The lyrics inside the mouth are from "DINNER!" by femtanyl and the deco is a bunch of scraps that I had laying around. In da orange part are quotes from Bryan Stevenson my GOAT!!! look him up or read Just Mercy its peak but anyways I wanted a bit more chaos (? I guess) so I added the quotes from the package of some stickers that said the same thing with the picture of the cat I got from my local art reuse store and the mascot of Kura (the rotating sushi bar). For the blue part I had this postcard with the angels so I took the front of it and painstakingly cut it out to glue :) And to stop my dumbassery from striking again, I put the "This Side Up" with my oc (the cat named Liv) being dragged into the Liv Hole. It makes me laugh. I think I did a pretty good job! I like it :D
Inside Cover
Now inside the cover, we had to put a drawn portrait of us that represented us and what we liked so that's why I'm there as an astronaut. Pretty neat, right? :D The rest is mostly scraps, I used the cover of the book used for the Design Journal in that "Fifty million of us missing" that I think is pretty cool. I put the titles of some of my poems around to fill in empty space. On the sleeve of my astronaut suit is the non-binary flag, obvi, and also Kirby, Token (aka femtanyl), The Knight from Hollow Knight, and V1 from Ultrakill. And a random snail and star.
This spread is kinda filler. I don't really care much for it but it's still nice to look at I guess.
Spread 1: "Emotional Time"
The theme of this spread was an emotional moment in our lives. I chose to do my family's move from New York to Texas when I was like 6. It was a very drastic moment in my life, and a very nerve-wracking/ melacholy time too. The once familiar notion of a giant city with blinking lights and so much to see being replaced with something unknown to me. And my feelings about living in Texas and wanting to move away really show in this spread.
On the left side of the spread, I used a lot of sticky notes and scrap paper for the city and also the younger me which is made up of multiple pieces of paper. The picture of the blue whale from the New York Museum of Natural History
