A Graphics Portfolio By Myeah

h o w i t s t a r t e d

first, i will be talking to you about how i ended up from being a user dedicated to just writing, to one whose dedicated to making graphics for people more than writing. not really necessary to read my journey story, but if you're interested, proceed

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Number 1: writing became almost nothing. 

I am not so much of an efficient writer. Although, I've been accounted and was trained as a campus journalist in 5th, 6th, and 9th grade.

When you're a student in the Philippines, that simply means every year, they pick students and train them to write either news, editorial pieces, feature, sports news, editorial cartooning, proof-reading, or teach you to broadcast or photo journalism so they could throw you into a pit of multiple competitions and pressure you to win it for the school, the city, the region, the country. It's shit for me.

I was an editorial writer in 5th and 6th grade and I wasn't cut out for it, and in 9th grade I came back as a feature writer, which too, failed to make me happy.

Now, editorial. I'm not one for serious topics and political righteousness so what's there to it for me to be invested in? My mind was not focused and I skipped most of training.

Feature writing. It was easier, freedom of expression, but they alter your ideas because they disagree with your beliefs and your choices. I also skipped most of training to not dwell with people telling you you're "good... But".

It was pretty difficult that people were trying to force me to do something I wasn't happy with, constantly trying to change the way I write and the way I take the story for it to be politically correct - and most politically correct sides are, in my mind, batshit humanly wrong. It's fucking stressful.

So that's when I just lost most of my passion to write, even on Wattpad, because I just got tired of putting my ideas out there for people to bluntly disapprove to. I'll get over it though.

Number 2 : my love for art

I love drawing, painting, and sketching (except human sketches because their too damn complicated). I love colors in general that make up the pieces of what we call an artwork.

The idea of building and putting things together to create a story to tell is just so right for me. And I thought, why not expand it digitally?

Number 3 : my photoshop discovery

Continuing side 2, I tried making my own cover for my book about 3 years ago using pixlr because I had no idea Multimedia Club was a thing back then. That ended up being a disaster, AND I HAD THE FUCKING GUTS to make horrible graphics for others. I feel sorry for torturing them like that. It was a short-lived thing, about three days until I stopped because I realized I was bad at it. *sobs in corner*

But in 8th grade (2015-2016), one of our classes, ICT (acronym for Information Communication Technology), was fully focused on Photoshop and we had to learn it for the whole year, in which, by the end of it, we were going to pass a magazine as a group.

The first few weeks of class was fucking awful. I was so uninterested and got low ass scores on a lot of my tests. I even asked someone for homework because I didn't want to mess around with photoshop. I THOUGHT THE PEN TOOL WORKED LIKE A PENCIL. I didn't even know what a Marquee was.

About two months into the subject, our teacher asked us for a graphic portfolio in which we were tasked to make a brochure, 10 fucking calling cards, 5 book/magazime covers, and 5 certificates.

I started watching tutorials and was fascinated by how incredible this application was, being able to tansform images into stories and expressing my style with layers. I was having a blast with it. My teacher was pleased with my work and really praised me to the point where I thought that maybe I was good at it.

Number four : the journey to getting good

I started my first ever graphic thread called "Grapbics by M", after noticing that I was getting the hand of photoshopping. It was a thread where all the graphics were a little noob, simple, tween-ish. But I was completing requests for a few people and they were kind eniugh to use my works.

February, we started working on our magazine where I poured my heart and soul into. It was a travelogue magazine talking about a place in the city. I volunteered to do the editing work, wrote a bunch of articles, interviewed a bunch of people with the group, took pictures while the rest of the group filled the magazine with ideas and artickes of their own. To our happiness, we won best magazine. It wasn't a bad magazine at all for a first, and I'm so proud to be a big part in the creative process. (I'll post pics if I can find remnants of that magazine). By the end of the year, I was top at the subject which was crazy to think.

I wouldn't call myself a pro because I still need more steps to take to get to the level I aspire to reach, but I have gotten better through time and that makes me fucking happy and content.

And that inspired me so much to continue making graphics and I'm still in love with it to this day.

Number 4 : it makes me happy.

It just does.

All Cara: A Solo Graphic Thread is one forum I started more than a year ago that I will never forget. It is where I really grew as a graphic designer and got to meet amazing people along the way. Although I stopped between months and went away with no explanation, people still came in and had encouraging words to say, and that inspired me so much. If you are/were part of that journey, thank you. I admire you immensely.

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So that is it for this part of the book. That was uninteresting wasn't it? I hope you enjoy the content in here, and as always, feel free to tell me whatever the fuck you want to say and ask whatever you want to ask. I'm open for anythimg! Fonts (unless I forget), resources (unless I also forget) and shit like that. Thanks fam :*