8th in OCJEA Editorial Cartoon =]

"I just copied and pasted off my journal entry for today on my DeviantArt.com."

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Well, today for the Baron Banner, some of us met up at Fountain Valley High School to drive up to El Toro High School in Lake Forest for the OCJEA (Orange County Journalism Education Association) On-The-Spot WriteOff. It's for school newspaper and yearbook staffs of OC and compete in different area of newspapers and yearbook...err...stuff lol (ie. News, Sports, Editiorial Cartoon, Editorial, Newspaper Indesign, Yearbook Layout, etc.)

Well, since I was half Student Life (Feature) and half cartoonist and I only just started writing articles, I did Editorial Cartoon. My editor-in-chieves (LOL, is that plural for chief? lol), Titus did News Photo, John did Novice News, and Victoria did Newspaper Indesign. My other staffmates, David did Editorial and Nuran did...errr, I think Novice News also o.o.

Well, I have never drawn an Editorial Cartoon at all and no idea what one was. But then I looked at a couple examples that the other 16 schools brought and I had a pretty good idea. So during the "press conference" of the news story the Novice News, Editorial, and Editoral Cartoon section were writing/drawing about, we took notes and got right to work the next hour. I had a pretty good idea how to draw it.

It was about some sophomore female tennis player having her pictures taken by some stranger and having the pictures posted on a non-school site w/out her knowlegde and all this stuff. It was pretty interesting and it felt really real. Anyhow, I did a pretty good job trying to bring the message on the cartoon and it didn't seem so hard as I thought.

After the WriteOff, we had a 3 hour lunch break so they could judge, we went to the Irvine Spectrum Center. It was pretty fun. (My cousins want to look at my DeviantArt so I have to brief this up a bit more O_o).

Back at the school, we had a critique meeting with an advisor about our newspaper and stuff. It was pretty helpful and afterwards, waiting for the rest of the schools to come back for the awards assembly, we viewed at some of the other schools's newspapers. The Baron Banner is planning to add editorial cartoons now which I'll be doing =] Kewl. Now Thomas isn't the only person who actually does the cartoon stuff in the issues, since I don't really have room in the issues to draw something, nor do I have the skill to pop up ideas for new comics ever so often (but I'm getting better at for writing new episode ideas for my new vid series I'm trying to post up on my Youtube...)

Well, err...I gotta sum this up, I won 8th place (certificate) out of twenty-some or more editorial cartoonist entries. I'm happy =]. Victoria had never done layout design on paper before and didn't even know what a "slug" was...whatever that is lol and she won 1st place (trophy) for Newspaper Indesign. Yay!

Well I'm gonna show my cousins my art now on DeviantArt. (I'd post up the one I entried to the On-The-Spot Writeoff, but the judges didin't give it back. It's just a sketch, since I had 1 hour, but I don't mind.