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We Are Millard South
The Student Journalism Site of Millard South High School

We Are Millard South
The Student Journalism Site of Millard South High School

We Are Millard South
Original Art
I decided to use blue because I feel like it was a very popular color, and the stanleys spilling out the top represent just how obsessed people are with them. I used a refence picture for the large Stanley, but I pulled the little ones out of my imagination, and I decided to use colored pencil because I could get the right shades for the colors I needed I know I love my Stanley and many people love theirs too.
water bottle collections raise question of a fad or true sustainability
Jamison Hanway • Mar 29, 2024

In recent years, water bottles have become very popular with brands like Hydro Flask, Owala, and Stanley entering the mainstream media. These...

Artist Statement: I wanted to use a newer photo of Stevie Nicks instead of an older one since this wasnt Fleetwood Mac, it was just her.
Stevie Nicks showcases lasting vocals
Katelynn Benker, Staff Reporter • Mar 27, 2024

Stevie Nicks is undoubtedly one of the most influential people in American pop culture. The reigning queen of rock and roll first toured solo...

Artist Statement: I used pencil for this drawing so that I could accurately shade the dimensions. I used a reference photo of the main character.
Dune Part 2 Exceeds Expectations
Zoey Buthorne, Managing Editor • Mar 27, 2024

Fantastic cinematography, impressive storytelling, and a noteworthy cast truly makes Dune part 2 the sequel of all sequels. Following the major...

Original Art
II started drawing this in a sketchbook, with the idea of having a gamer playing video games, and putting esports in the main computer screen, and NSAA? in a smaller monitor since it was another big statement in the article. I outlined it in black so it was clean and used a combination of colored pencils and markers so the image would pop and be solid. The idea of the way I set this up was original.
ESports potentially levels up to NSAA sport
Dylan Wiese, Sports Editor • Mar 22, 2024
Getting Physical
Getting Physical
Chase Zagurski, Staff Reporter • Mar 22, 2024
This is a piece of art representing the two main types of menstrual products and showcasing them under a big “For Free sign. This goes with our Editorial on the new bill being passed to make menstrual products free for students. This is a digital piece I created from a blank page creating my own patterns and colors to show the most used period products. I hope this helps improve my art and people enjoy it even if it’s a little strange.
Staff Editorial: Bill finally provides free menstrual products to students
Mar 1, 2024
Artist Statement: A lot of the promotional material and packaging surrounding Ohio Players has a big old school bowling alley motif, so I wanted my art to go along with that. I ended up taking some bowling ball clip art I found, put it together with the Black Keys logo off of the new LP cover, and drew over them. It ended up being a nice little exercise in shading for me. All of my art is created with digital illustration tools in Photoshop, which makes manipulating layers and altering fine details far easier for me, especially compared to physical pencil and paper mediums.
Black Keys single forecasts worrying trajectory for upcoming album
Chase Zagurski, Staff Reporter • Feb 14, 2024
Artist Statement: I wanted to incorporate something about college in it, but I wasnt sure how. I had to dull down the colors a bit since the colors were very bright after importing it from the drawing program that I use.
FAFSA failures frustrate future freshmen
Alexa Leiting, InDepth Editor • Feb 9, 2024
Artist Statement: This artwork is a representation of the event called Mr. Millard South transitioning to The Ultimate Patriot, which is nonexclusive and can have girls now. I used colored pencils and black marker to create this piece. I choose the different fonts because I wanted to use a more bold straight font for the Mr. Millard south because its more of a stern font, while on the girls side its more light and free, just to show its becoming something new. I learned that since I scan my artwork, yellow colored pencil is not the best for a background since it looks patchy. If I added more I would add more people in the background, and change the colored pencil to marker.
Traditional Mr. Millard South rebrands to include everyone
April Reiss, Editor-in-Chief • Feb 9, 2024
Artist Statement: The first volunteer work I thought of was volunteering at a food pantry. I decided to use pencil since its easier to layer shadows and highlights.
Community SERVE-ice
Avery Patdu and Grace Perkinson • Feb 9, 2024
I was asked to draw a snowflake of any kind, I had no idea what one to do, so I drew 6 of them and let the writer have options. I wanted to make the snowflake simple and plain so I just used a blue marker and went straight into it. I took many tries, and if I learned anything it would be to take tie with a pencil first.
What Goes on on Snow Days
Avery Patdu, Staff Reporter • Feb 9, 2024
Artist Statement: When sketching out the calligraphy I wanted it to have a feeling of fancy animalistic. With sharp points at the top and bottom acting as horns and fangs. The S morphing into a tail. The background is composed of pink flames representing their chaos.
Musical 'Mean Girls' Remake Fails To Excite
April Reiss, Editor in Chief • Feb 9, 2024
The consequences of caffeine
The consequences of caffeine
Shelby Neeley, Online Editor in Chief • Feb 8, 2024
Artist Statement: My artwork is a whimsical scene you’ve seen in almost a million fairytales, representing the story of the first valentine sent. I started with a blank digital page (on Ibis Paint X) and used preset brushes to convey paint, charcoal, and a burnt page. Lastly I applied colored noise and faded the opacity to give the impression it’s on a real page. All of this took 39 minutes and 55 seconds (per my app) to give the allusion of a dulled old page. I hope this will help me improve future art and that people can envision my creative scenes.
The history of Valentines Day: showing love for centuries
Anna Samuels, staff reporter • Feb 8, 2024
Oscar? Whos He?
Oscar? Who's He?
Robert Baker III, Entertainment Editor • Feb 8, 2024
Artist Statement: I used blue for the igloo so that it looked a little more like snow/ice.
An Icy relationship with snow days
Josilynn Prokupek, Staff Reporter • Feb 8, 2024
Art by Anna Gurciullo
Society unfairly judges young men in child care roles
Dillon Stice, Social Media Editor • Dec 19, 2023
Teachers Joanne Miller and Lula McCaskill prefer their diet sodas to teacher Jordan Pullens pour-over coffee.
A couple of caffeinated choices:
Alexa Leiting, In Depth Editor • Dec 15, 2023
Artist Statement: My first outing into making art for the newspaper, created with digital illustration tools in Photoshop. Started with a blank white canvas, found clipart for the two integral elements (an outline of the state of Texas and a guitar) off of Google Images, and put them together. Turned down the opacity on both of them and sketched the basic outline of the whole thing, with the neck of the guitar running into the pandhandle. The coloration was relatively easy on the state outline, but I had to follow more closely along with the clipart on the guitar section. I ended up tracing the clipart at first, but had to do a lot of resizing, manipulation, and original coloring to get it to smoothly transition into Texas. Made it look like the guitar was growing out of the state by using the blending tool on where the two sections met. The strings were pretty difficult, as I couldnt get them straight enough drawing freehand. I ended up settling with the basic line tool, but that meant I couldnt layer them under the frets or blend them out at the bottom. Whole thing took about 2-3 hours.
Vincent Neil Emerson's 'The Golden Crystal Kingdom' tells tales of nostalgia, country, and what once was
Chase Zagurski, Staff Reporter • Dec 15, 2023
Artist Statement: After reading the story and speaking with the story writer, we both decided to go with a visual representation of a student trying to study but not being able to due to apps costing money. I hadnt used any references for this piece, I sketched out ideas on what I wanted to do. After the sketches I again spoke with the writer of the story to ask if they had wanted me to add or change anything before I began to outline with a fine tip pen. I had drawn the student with a discontent expression as they brought focus to their computer opened up to a studying app that was now not needing payment to be able to continue. On the board the words test and study are written and on the table and a pile of notes are sprawled out needing to be filled out. After outlining, the piece was scanned and rendered. If i could change anything, I would add more onto the board, there is a lot of blank space that could have been filled in. I am happy with my decision to add exclamation points atop the computer alerting the student of the new update.
Staff Editorial
Dec 15, 2023
Clothes and Codes
Clothes and Codes
Alexa Leiting, In Depth Editor • Nov 22, 2023
Artist Statement: I thought it would be more authentic to make the real iPhone color pink since that is the actual color.
The death of USB-C
Charleen Darra, Staff Reporter • Nov 20, 2023
Artist Statement: Outlined by ball point pen and drawn in with sharpie. I decided to draw the album cover of the album. I found it to be very interesting and fitting for the story. Drakes son, Adonis Graham, was the illustrator of his album cover.
New Drake Album
Julissia Arias, Staff Reporter • Nov 20, 2023
Once you know about Everetts, you kind of feel like you know a little secret. - Tyler Thiesen
Everett's: Homestyle Food Made with Love
August Yancey, Artist/Reporter • Nov 14, 2023
Artist statement: This was made by layering several shades of green and yellow paper to make a movie accurate Springtrap.
'Five Nights at Freddy's' best enjoyed by true fans
Shelby Neeley, Online Editor-in-Chief • Nov 14, 2023
See bottom of story for detailed artist statement.
Learning lessons in grief
Shelby Neeley, Online Editor-in-Chief • Nov 14, 2023
I thought it would be cool to outline the drawing with color to give it a sharper look.
Parking Defeats Patriot Drivers
Josilynn Prokupek, Staff Reporter • Nov 14, 2023

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