Here it is.
My masterpiece.
My Mona Lisa.
A true work of art isn’t it?
Well I hope so, but there are a lot of things I would change about this video project/drawing/final translation of my researched argument.
But first a bit of background on why I chose to do this project the way I did. My researched essay and argument was on the impact of the Catholic church on abortion and health care policy at Catholic universities: specifically Santa Clara.
I focused on the decision of SCU president Michael Engh to cut elective abortion from the faculty health care plan back in 2013. I mainly talked about the implications and dangers of the Catholic church having such a large influence and how the specific influence of the Catholic church was not in line with Jesuit Philosophy in this instance.
It was long and winding and as much of an adventure to read as it was to write.
From Tumblr
And so when this final project was announced and explained I wanted to find a way to simplify the behemoth of an essay that it was.
I’m not sure why, but I immediately thought of a drawing.
If you don’t care about my history as a drawer then skip the next italicized part.
See a quick bit history, I’m not a great drawer. I didn’t ever really love drawing until I took an intro to drawing and painting class my freshmen year of high school.
Now on most of the projects I was very average and nobody was hiring me to draw their portraits, but on one specific assignment I knocked it out of the park. I wish I could find the actual image of my drawing to show, but anyways I’ll sum it up.
So it was a self portrait of me and it was larger than life size. We were drawing off of images of ourselves and I continually was surprising myself at how well I was drawing.
I spent about 3 hours on the eyes alone and the drawing turned out quite well!
To this day I’m very proud of this work of art.
From Giphy
Anyways back to the topic at hand. I thought for this final multimodal translation I could draw something!
I initially thought about drawing a comic type thing that might be found in the New Yorker. But then I figured it wouldn’t really be multimodal at all other than drawing (which I guess counts? I couldn’t tell you).
So I decided on a drawing anyways and I’d film it to make it multimodal!!
Except when I sat down to film the damn thing it was so difficult to find a way to position the camera in a way that the viewer could actually see what I was doing.
I promise I tried.
So I decided on taking pictures at each stage of the drawing and seeing where to go from there.
I think it ended up working out quite well and I’m happy with the result.
It’s not quite as good as my original drawing of my face, but it might be added to my portfolio.