Original DA Upload Date: December 18, 2021
Time to go back. Way, way, way, way back. With a remake of a piece I drew all the way back in kindergarten.
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On December 8, 2021, at 9:12PM EST, I submitted, barring any potential event in which I decide to go for an advanced degree, the final assignment I will ever have as a student. It was a travel campaign for a fictional place, done in the medium of our choice; I chose Loompaland, and I did the assignment as a mock-website, coded with HTML and CSS in Brackets, a semi-off-brand version of Dreamweaver. And I say semi-off-brand, because Brackets was made by Adobe, which kind of makes it a self-knockoff.
Anyhoo, I imagined the site advertising the Loompaland vacation, as a cruise line owned by the Wonka company, and I made six pages for the assignment, five which were part of the website itself (a main page, a page describing the staff of the boat, a page describing the fauna of Loompaland [hornswogglers, snozzwangers, and whangdoodles], a page of links to the Wonka company’s social media [which was really just a page of links to Nestle’s social media, as a reference to Nestle owning the Willy Wonka Candy Company brand], and a page where a code had to be entered), and one of which was a CSS stylesheet. Around 327 lines of code in all, and, including the photo-composites I made for the assignment, around 12 hours total of work.
The assignment was also the last of mine that needed to be graded. I ended up getting a 94/100 on it, in line with the consistent A’s and B’s I’ve gotten throughout… well, my entire life as a student.
In the hours after finishing my assignment, timed specifically to make a Rush reference (as 9:12PM is 21:12 on a 24-hour clock), I wondered how I could celebrate my completion of my Bachelor’s degree, and by extension, eighteen and a half years of education. As I sat down on the couch to rest for the evening and into the early morning, I saw a drawing of a snowman I made back in kindergarten (so we’re talking late 2003/early 2004), hanging on the wall next to the Christmas tree. And so I got the idea to do what many digital artists nowadays like to do with their own childhood art… remake it, to end my time as a student artist the same way that it began. With a winter-themed artwork. It’s kind of like how the year itself begins in winter, and ends in winter.
So, what more to add? I guess… just take the artwork in, as it represents the completion of an education that’s lasted as long as it takes for a newborn to age into adulthood. That’s right, anyone looking at this artwork born in September 2003 or later. I’ve been drawing longer than you’ve been alive.
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This artwork was made at a resolution of 2160×2880 (aspect ratio 1:1.33).
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