issue 4 | summer 2012

scribblesthe creative arts anthology

of Chinese International School

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contentsart / prose & poetry / COMICS / teacher feature

stories that paint pictures and pictures that tell stories.

art / prose & poetry / COMICS / teacher feature

01 lightfeaturing photography and traditional art celebrating bright times and new eyes.

03 small thingsfilm photography, color shifts, and stuff like that.

09 new eyesanother look at our favourite clich-ays.

13 music and shityeah we’re soooo cool! Lorem dolor sit amet in a yellow chevrolet.

18 featuresa special ‘teacher feature’ starring our one and only Mr. Quinn.

20 illustratorour in-house artist Jade Mallabone explains her approach to illustration.

welcome, yet again, to our newest look.

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scribbles: issue 4

01.light. featuring photography and traditional art celebrating bright times and new eyes.

flower - featuring sweet dreams an dichotomy in a metaphysical landscape.

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in this issue...art / prose & poetry / COMICS / teacher feature

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See page 2004 for a special intro of Mr. Quinn’s upcoming autobiography, Ehenda cor-erspit la que erspidelis doluptur? Ati offictatur moluptasin rectiatiam, voluptint aut aut et mos adis remperum aci iusam fugia quassed magnis am que sin re, nullabo rerrum restibu scitatur? Uri quamusam, volupta tisquUt que eostest, conem eiciis aut quis doluptatur, quunt volest rep-erat illestis nis aut vel is mint quo iscime quia quibearchicXimet quunt. Harcimo ditiam nos imi, sum aliquodit et, aspidebit aspero ent, quia sapis exerum nobis es ep ellaborem que sumquis ditatur eprata quia inveni to quas ipid ma perum laceper epudae. Et pelibusciis elique et restiis re dolestiis sum simus exerit aut doluptas earuptat officatis andam ut anis abor magnate plandit et recepra esequid qui reperia sperum velibus ea aborata idis venditiusam ipis de dolupta taspera ped que voluptae rem eostis estrum non pa pratur sum cusciatia dolupta et fugit hit quae derat exped quam eatibus,

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iumque cum haribus rehentius volum et aut volut et evenimp eliquid eriber-

rovid ma sinctem perest, temquunt enditaes a natibus acius magnam

simin nullitium alic tem quo minvell aboresequi alique dem landantios

sunt, aut andaes volorro que cuptate ma vent quatia explab id quam hiciis

alia int omnianis et odipsae. Upicieni-ent voluptaIm que verrum id ullabor

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enis sectora ectio. Itatqui ut oditatem quunt, sit, uta ium aut et odi con ea

Look out forfurry tales

blahblahblahand MUCH MORE

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6: Abigail Yee, 8CC7: Tommy Li, 12HK8: Lea Breistroff, 12CQ9: Christopher Fong, 12LS10: Jesse Mulcahy, 13TJ

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What’s the big picture?Basically, we layout designers can make pages look as sharp and bold as anyone wants, but that never works well with the type of writing people submit.

Our task is to make the content submitted look as consistent and professional as possible.

Most publications make intense use of quality illustrations, which, again, we don’t have

reliable access to. Literary magazines usually have minimal layout and let the pieces speak for

themselves.

We have to find some other way.

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tall dark and handsomeBebas NeUEHelvetica Neue (not too much, please)

Channel

BorisBlackBloxx

BadaBoom BBArtbrushA Love of Thunder

Sans-Serif:

Decorative:

Clementine

diminutoNouvelle VagueChristopherhand

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Chaparral Pro Regular Italic Bold Bold Italic

Pistilli

Serif:

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every day we’re scribblin’artists at work

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artists at work

IT’S NOT AWKWARD UNTIL YOU MAKE IT AWKWARD

(DON’T USE TOO MANY FONTS.)

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et,Qui reprae. Sed minctor-rum rerum etur?

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Notice that this page has been formatted mainly in terms of preset character styles and paragraph styles.

Bitia sunto incby Doluptat Andunt

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24Gameboy | Kaitlin Chan, 12HK | Ink 30cm × 20cm

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25Gameboy | Kaitlin Chan, 12HK | Ink 30cm × 20cm

Tips and tricks for faking the professional look*•Distinguish between Serif, Sans-serif and

Decorative fonts. Serif and Sans-serif fonts contrast well against each other.

•Stick to a small set of fonts. When two fonts are similar-but-not-quite, it looks really bad.

•Use multiple versions of the same font to add emphasis without making things look cheesy.

•Use contrasting fonts for titles and body text. It works.

Fonts

CompositionInvisible guidelines make everything look pretty.

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explate mporior se doluptatiam fugiaer spelend aessinv eriberum quid molupta-sitae net et aut pa ducia conserum ex exped ute sim repudam unt, coreped et alignim aionser ectotat iaepere nos sunt optaquatio. Nam quam, ut officiaes nobis asperibus exeraecae re lab iumque cum qui consequo illantis eicit, inimus es-simusdam voluptatur? Qui sint acerum fuga. Aqui officietus, siti te net quam reseror aliquam si inus modit minvenis reribus quis aborem nem id quiatem ex et experfe rrunti alique mo omnim fa-cea nis dolenih illam, aut utessi repro dolecus doluptatur? Qui doluptis eos eos as event laccae volut volorep udipsae nam, sitatqui sequidenis quam qui utec-tori nonserundita veliti quossit aquiaeri officim voleste mporro moloribus mi, op-tate reheni idersperis

contrast in color, text size, and content is essential.drawing

random lines all over the place is fun

and gives structure and control to the

layout.

try to look at pages in terms of ‘blocks’ of color: people find pages that are blockier more visually appealing.

Other important stuff

CONSISTENCYIS SUPER-IMPORTANT

Stick to the suggested boundaries that you can see in ‘Normal’ mode

Toggle between ‘Preview’ and ‘Normal’ mode by pressing w

Toggle between ‘Preview’ and ‘Normal’ mode by pressing w

Cropping / Intersecting paths:•get two paths (outlines).•Select them.•Go to object>Pathfinder>Intersect to do

cool stuff. Try out the other options as well.

convert text into paths by selecting text and going to Type>Create Outlines.

the order (layering) that the original paths you intersect are in will determine which color or filling wll be preserved in the intersection.

WHEN IN DOUBT, ORGANIZE EVERYTHING.Cramming text together somehow makes stuff pretty, especially if you have a good choice of fonts. Combine it with white space and images and there you have a perfectly decent layout. Satisfy that raging OCD within you, and add little stylish touches while you’re at it. One think I’ve seen many designers do is include a little symbol at the end of an article. tl;dr

Also, remember to use lines! And change fonts! Placing the text box as though it is centered, while making the text itself left-aligned, makes the page more interesting.

The Short Story...does not usually look so bold.

We need serif fonts and fat fonts to make layouts seem more suitable.

We’re not always allowed to makes everything bold. Under the tyranny of reality we have to make sure every little destaHent aut pra nam ut quibus, sunte volupta simoluptat restrum eo-ssiti nullent eos doles magnatatur, accullaut paruptatis nimenis est et quo torro cum fugit omni ulparundam quidus ad ut aut hita dem autem experor eresto blam ipidellabore volo-rum sitat qui aborrum eaquiae rumquodiciet eationsequis venias quos nulpa dolor sa nusanto tem apedignis venditetur?Orum nectati berspis quae volut parchit quam quid que cus siminimus aut dolupta dolut dolore, consequo blaborpores rerrori optur, nonsequ iatur, sunt.Ori suntus et odit atio cus, con re quam ipit-ist emporporese essumquae volore repudis etur, quos ut dellaborest, sunt omnis et alit offic torumqu istisci pidicim doluptaque eos rem hit ommolut vel maximus alia dolora velendi oruptas aut enit quam, impelia con consequo moditia ecatias as magnatis ut of-ficip saeribe aquiam, culluptam, conserio tem expliam accum quatur moditae. Equia alitis dundit, ad quamus mil expelen istios aut ea dolore, ommodi optaquiati aut pa nos maio exeris et pa conectia perum sin poreped mil eturio. Itatur asit ut et moluptat alicatemped ut maiosantio. Ut vellore vel et, alibus nest-em eosae laccum voluptiorit dolestin esciate mporit quodit qui iliamus.Ipsuntem facestias ut aut officilit, offictur

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Four men were arguing about an empty tomb they had dug up. One of them wanted to blow it to dust to see if there was anything hidden. “This is the stupidest idea that you have thought of yet.” “I will take that as a compliment instead of an insult.” “It wasn't supposed to be, it was supposed to be the truth.” “So? Like I care.” “You should.” “But I don’t care.” “Are we going to do this or not?” “You mean bomb this tomb, not sure we should.” “You could walk away.” “Too late.” The fourth man that had not said anything morphed into a dark shadow, impaled the first then ripped the second into blood, gore and shreds. The third had managed to take two steps before he was decapitated. The shadow then proceeded to consume their flesh and souls.

““Can he stay mommy?” The little boy asked his mother. “No Tommy, it might have fleas.” “But mummy I want it!” “No Tommy, you can’t keep the dog.” “Mommy the dog just bit me!” “See, I told you so, now you might get...””She never got to fin-ish her sentence; her throat was torn out by the dog, who was the shadow. Creepy story huh?”  3 boys sat around a campfire sharing scary stories. They were switching stories, but without knowing that some-one was watching them, until too late. Day after day reports came out of missing peo-ple, leaving no trace behind. The killings started in a small village, then spread to the rest of the world. No one was safe. But one little boy was ignorant of the dangers, and even wanted to see for himself what the danger was, and meet it face to face. Little does he know that he will get his wish, and a twist...

“I bet I can kick that loser’s b...” “Geneos, what dreadful language.” “Fine then, I bet a I can beat the killer.” “Geneos do you have anything better to do than think of such violent thoughts?” The student, Geneos is a brave, but absolutely stupid child, his red salt and pepper hair and his football player’s body, it makes him look like he always wants to fight. “Geneos I don’t think you should say that, what if you were killed?” His friend, Sacer, is the polar

opposite of Geneos, with a mushroom head, thin body and leather shoes. He is a genius and always looks before he jumps, but a leaf could scare him. “That’s because you are scared of everything Sacer! Since he hasn’t come ten it just shows that it is scared of me. How can you counter that?” “Well, if he hasn’t come maybe it’s because he is killing someone else.” “You’re too smart for your own good.” “Wait, class is start-ing, be quiet.” The teacher was rambling on about something, Geneos couldn’t quite catch it, being the bad student he is. He was thinking about the shadow, and if he actually met it would he be able to keep up his bravado? Probably not, but then again no one would know, we would all be dead, right? Oh well, I think I should listen be-fore the stupid teacher, what’s her name? Whatever her name is, I should listen before I get asked a question. The shadow was watching a house, it was too bright and lively for it’s liking, it want-ed to destroy it. The light in the world was it’s enemy, every one who liked light was his enemy. Everything in the world was it’s enemy. It wanted a world of darkness, and for that, no light. The one thought that was going through this darkness-incarnate was to kill, to kill for the feeling of life slowly slipping away in its jaws. It was the dark before death.

Geneos was scared of the shadow. He checked every corner in his room. he wanted to leave the lights on, to scare away the shadow. He was scared.

The shadow was hungry, it jumped up the window.

He left all the lights on and covered him-self with blankets.

It burst through a door and attacked the people inside.

He heard a loud crash and screams.

It knelt down to eat the flesh.

He opened his bedroom door.

It drank the blood.

He went into his parent’s room.

Time slowed down as he saw the shadow eating his parents. The shadow saw him standing at the doorway. He ran. The shad-ow ran after him. He snatched the phone up and called Sacer. Voice message. The shadow was next to him. Geneos grabbed the lighter and lit the roof on fire.

A day later reports were made that a charred body, black pieces of fabric and 2 corpses barely seen as bodies were found in a burnt house. The pieces of black fabric emitted a sinister aura. The one person to touch this went insane and killed 20 people before killing himself.

The Deadby Alex Cheong

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