Author: Rylie Koval

For my current event drawing, I decided to draw about the recent stock market crash following the newly implemented tariffs. I’m unsure which people to include in my drawing but I was considering maybe including Trump since he decided on the tariffs. I was also thinking I could do both a man and a woman stock broker in a piece where their reactions to the declining stocks are shown. I want to represent this event in a manner thats both objective yet realistic. Everyone has been impacted by the declining economy and I think it would be a good topic to show in relation to both current events and politics. I was thinking that I could use a mixture of body language as well as expression to show the emotions. For body language, I was thinking of hands on head in disbelief or an arm outstretch either in anger or looking for an answer. The faces would show either worry, sadness, or frustration. In the background I was thinking of including a stock screen showing the downward trend. I’m really excited for this piece and can’t wait to see how it turns out.

I decided to do my revisionist storytelling piece based on the story of Cinderella. I chose this story because it has always been one of my favorites and is a classic. In my opinion, the biggest turning point of the story was when Cinderella’s fairy godmother transformed her rags into riches, a beautiful ball gown and glass slippers. Those slippers then became the most valuable thing Cinderella ever has. Not only did the slippers lead Cinderella to true love, but they helped her escape her previous lifestyle of servitude and transition into a world of wealth and prestige as a princess.

I decided to transform this story into a more modern version that’s intertwined with society’s use of cell phones and social media. Rather than a fairy godmother transforming Cinderella into who she wants to be, she follows other people’s social media influence and online orders the outfit she wants. I want to alter it in this way because it’s much more relatable to society today. Consumerism is at an all time high because people want to fit in with global social trends and I intend to show this through my design. Cinderella is able to use social media to become the “ideal” version of herself more quickly than she would have been able to in her original story. While in a sense she is more independent without the godmother, she is unintentionally more dependent on her phone.