EMI IS NOW AN INSTAGRAM INFLUENCER (NOT DONE)

 Hey all!!! :D Hope you super awesome blog readers are having the most amazing spring break of ALL time right now! I know I am! I started it off with a crazy ass sleepover, spent the next couple of days locking in on this project and for AICE Global, and ending it off with a nice and breezy State MPA Jazz Band performance :]

oh also i'm in new york

wait before i yap look at my art

IM GENUINELY SO PROUD

otto lookin super cool and sinister

EMI IS IN NEW YORK? EMI IS IN NEW YORK

Yes! This is my 3rd time visiting the Big Apple but this time around it isn't for like a week ANDD WE'RE IN THE BRONX!! THEEEEE BRONXXXXX we've never been before and so far I would say we had a pretty nice experience despite what I've heard about this place in the past. Very different vibe from Manhattan but I'm still really loving it :] My mom, brother and I only pulled up here for a quick lil side quest, that being a really cool campus tour at Fordham University since my brother is maybe probably going to grad school there! Very prestige! My bloodline is filled with academic warriors!! Including myself even though I'm like that one video of IShowSpeed every single quarter! I still get straight A's and B+'s though! Star student!!! BAAHAHHAHAHA

how bro be actin all semester but still

 gets impeccable grades (that's me I am bro)

Before I start, I'd like to show off some super awesome pics I took during the tour with my lovely Canon Rebel T7 :] OMG I NEED TO CHARGE IT THANK YOU EMI I LOVE YOU EMI NO PROBLEM EMI MWAHMWAHMWAHWAMHWA

This university was EXQUISITE. Even though I'm probably not going to go to Fordham anytime in my life, it was still an amazing time and opportunity seeing such a beautiful campus that's been around for so long :] Some nice adventures today! NOW WE BAWL. 

BLAWG I GOT STUFFS TO UPDATE YOU ON!! 

EMI IS NOW AN INSTAGRAM INFLUENCER: THE MAKING OF OUR FIRST SOCIAL MEDIA POST!!

Starting my page was absolutely one of the most euphoric experiences in my entire life. I like made something really cool and posted about it, and and and you're telling me we're doing this for SCHOOL? CAMBRIDGE I LOVE YOU

As you may recall, I started planning out my entire page about a week ago on March 10th to really make my entire posting career for like the next 3 weeks a PIECE OF CAKE and holy guacamole I am so glad I did that because I feel so much more lighter and much more certain and relaxed about my page and what I'm going to do with it :] I know myself and I know that I am a creative PERFECTIONIST at heart so this page will literally probably have the best branding and art direction I could have ever squeezed out of my soul. And as of right now, I proving my point right! So far, so pretty good! Before I left for NYC, I sat myself down for like a good 2 hours and drew my most favorite piece of Otto artwork so far, that being the thumbnail I embedded a couple minutes ago up there.

 

I created this piece with the intention of making it our profile picture but once I sent the set up page to my group, Joaquin thought the pfp wasn't as professional looking and said that I should make it Otto's crappy pentagram instead, but since we all agreed that the art I made was super cool, I went ahead and made it the very first post! Promo art as a nice lil introduction! WAHOO!!! As for the profile pic, I opened FireAlpaca on my computer, got my mouse, and drew the best "pentagram" I could with my one hand :] I'd have to say, it was definitely a much better fit making that our pfp so thanks Joaquin! :DD                                                                                                                                                                                                       I'm really glad we made this change because that really meant I had a lot less work to do. The original plan was to use the drawing as the profile picture, then making a whole other drawing as the actual promo art which would have taken tons more time!! The art I made of Otto was definitely absolutely for sure meant to be promo art given how gnarly it is so yay everything does indeed happen for a reason I love the universe cambridge you should love the universe too :D We should all love the universe!!! YAYYYYYYYY!!!! Down below I'll put some supa awesome pictures of my art processes so you English lads could be all like "wowee this emi valdivia is super duper cool and talented we should give her an A+++++++++++ on her exam wowwww I am totally not writing this sentence to fill up this empty void of the page lol lmao WHAT are you talking about bro you are CRAAAAAZZYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Another thing I'd like to mention before I shove my art down your throat! The promo art was drawn on paper! What I did to make it look extra profesh and 1000x gnarlier was mess around a bit with the camera settings on my phone to get the exact look I wanted! The difference is HUGE man I am so happy we invented technology I love this computer I sometimes love my phone guys life is beautiful

Joaquin's "pentagram!" I based my version off of this :]

Our supa awesome profile pic! :] I love Otto's crappy pentagram

Raw shot of promo art

Grilled and ready to eat up shot of promo art!

Soon after making all these things, I combined all them together into one super awesome Instagram page!! WAHOOO!!!! YAYYYYYYY!! SHE DID IT EVERYBODY! EMI IS NOW AN INSTAGRAM INFLUENCER!! I was super stoked to start this, but at the same time I was like "woah wait lol what do I put as my username, what do I put as my bio, what do I put in the description of my first post?? GAH!!!"                                                                                                                          When it comes to making things like Instagram posts I always tend to overthink how to caption them. Once more I am a creative perfectionist at heart so this was a challenge for me! To help, I stalked a bit of last year's A-level blogs and went through some of their social media pages for inspiration on what to put on my own, and I'm happy to say it really helped! I followed a teeny tiny bit of a format, by first stating what our film is about and stating that it was all a project for AICE Media, buttt at the same time I put my own flare into it! Like always! Man I love when I do that!! If you look at that beautiful image I embedded up there, that is what I ended up with :] Guys have I ever mentioned how much I love this class