AP

Here are 2D Design's Hardworking AP Students Portfolios!

Each student created an inquiry question that they used to inform their investigative series this year.

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Brian Hernandez

For the year, I focused on my concept of interpreting my personal relationships with songs that have meaning to me. My pieces are based off my relationship with myself, my mom, and two of my best friends. I chose songs that meant something to us. The songs I had chosen were Chlorine by Twenty One Pilots, All The Noise by Castlecomer, House of Gold by Twenty One Pilots, This is Me by Keala Settle, Boy Like Me by Barns Courtney. The songs lyrical meanings and the personal meanings were mixed together to make the pieces come together. I also made sure to talk with the people the pieces were about to make sure they agreed on some of the ideas of it all, as it represents us both. I really enjoyed making the pieces for this and felt I learned a lot about new digital media.

Brittney Michlig

My investigation was based on my interest in psychology and my insight on many people in my life who've experienced neurodiversity. Throughout my investigation I not only applied my knowledge but I added how a person may experience these disorders “How can I represent the experience of disorders and neurodiversity?” The media I experimented with for each piece was specifically selected to help illustrate the different feelings and experiences of each disorder. My first pieces, narcissism and social anxiety, focused on a person's symptoms metaphorically. Each piece went through a rigorous planning process and evolved to adapt the idea of showing how the person may feel rather than just showing how the disorder functions metaphorically. With my body dysmorphia piece, I experimented with creating a melting deformed person to show how the person truly feels self image. My ADHD piece went from illustrating with inner thoughts of a distressed person to a big piece that makes the viewer experience this feeling themselves. By the end of my inquiry, I explored more of the experience itself as time went on rather than just showing a persons symptoms or feelings with their disorder.

Chloe Tesch

My sustained investigation grew a lot through the year. It started out as “how can I show tattoo trends throughout the ages”, in which most of the trends were mostly utilitarian. My media choices and color palette were focused on the time period the piece was based on to make it clear what decade this trend took place in. The middle of the year was a turning point in experimenting with both my inquiry, as well as 3D elements and media. This point in my investigation led me to branch out from focusing on trends to focusing on the societal impacts in relation to tattoos. I represented sexism in the tattoo industry, tattoos in the workplace, tattoos becoming a part of fashion and tattoos being compared to other art. As I continued to create the rest of the pieces, my inquiry statement changed to “how can I show tattoo trends and the societal impacts associated with them.” At the end, I experimented with more abstract representations of these social issues related to tattoos. Overall, I really grew and learned a lot about my inquiry throughout this investigation.