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August Yancey

August Yancey, Artist/Reporter

August is a senior and this is his third year on staff as both a cartoonist and a journalist. Outside of school, he likes to draw, read, and play video games. He is also in chamber orchestra and has been playing violin for eight years.

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[Photo] Soaring to new heights

May 22, 2025
Artist Statement: It took me a few days to draw this and I started on the bus ride to Norfolk for the NSAA State Journalism Contest. I made it on Procreate using my iPad. I think the dress was the hardest part for me because of all of the sequins on it and I'm not really sure how to draw that, so I added a lot of shine instead. The flower was kind of hard too because of all the small details in it. The face was the easiest part because I love doing faces. The background didn't take a long time and I'm very happy with how the yellow cloth turned out.

[Photo] Laufey changes tune with new single ‘Silver Lining’

May 15, 2025
Artist Statement: I originally drew the Xavier art, but it turned out I drew the wrong entire guy, so I only had one class period to complete this one. I was originally using colored pencils, but I messed up a bit, so I decided to make it more colorful with Posca markers.

[Photo] Tate McRae’s new album puts her so close to stardom

Rylee Newman, Editor-in-Chief
Apr 2, 2025
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[Photo] Bills to follow this session

Feb 16, 2025
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Bills to follow this session

Ella Erickson, Zachary Schilmoeller, Anna Samuels, August Yancey, and Ava Dyas
Mar 5, 2025
Artist Statement: I did this on Blender. I had a lot of trouble with figuring out textures since I needed to download things, but I didn't have the resources to do so. I also had technical difficulties with adding the $ because I have never used the texture painting feature before. I guess I didn't really need it since skittles are already pretty smooth. When trying to figure it out, I accidentally saved over the file with a cube I was practicing on and had to start all over. Yay. But I got it done and it looks like skittles. I didn't want to get a copyright strike or something like that so I put the line through it to make it look like a dollar sign. I also did this to tie into the theme of taxes.

[Photo] Staff Editorial

Feb 12, 2025
Artist Statement: I haven't actually seen the movie yet, so I decided to draw Maui's hook because I've seen him holding it in thumbnails. I was originally going to draw the Heart of Te Fiti, but I soon found out that it wasn't an integral part of the new movie. I used Procreate to draw it on my iPad.

[Photo] Exploring the seas: A deep dive into ‘Moana 2’

Dec 20, 2024
Artist Statement: I used Procreate on my iPad to draw this. I was originally going to draw the whole open laptop, but it was really tedious to draw all of the keys, plus I didn't think it would be necessary to the piece, so I used a picture of a Dell laptop in tablet mode as a reference instead. I wish I could've added some more detail to both the laptop and the eye. It was overall supposed to capture the idea that we're being watched while we do our work and that teachers can see everything we do in them.

[Photo] Securely: Better for learning or invasion of privacy?

Sara Davis, Social Media Editor
Nov 27, 2024
Artist Statement: I came up with this idea from the poll we sent out. The most voted fear was spiders, but I also noticed trypophobia and fear of the ocean. The trypophobia response gave me the idea to put holes in the spider's back and I was originally going to incorporate water into it, but I wasn't sure how. I 3D sculpted this in Blender. This was actually my first time using the application, or even 3D sculpting at all. I'm pretty proud of it. I do wish that I could've added more variation to colors and the landscape.

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[Photo] End of July brings ‘Midwest hurricane’

Keegan Wibel, Entertainment Editor
Sep 24, 2024
The art is mostly focusing on the Starbucks aspect of the article. I drew it on my iPad, an upgrade from drawing on ibisPaintX using my finger last year. My thought process was to depict the Starbucks logo in a storm.

[Photo] Chipotle has thunderingly successful day after storm

Sep 20, 2024
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[Photo] Freedom from the pad-triarchy

May 23, 2024
Artist Statement: All I was really thinking about was a teacher who was really stressed, so I drew that. I decided to show that she was thinking about all the stuff she has to worry about. It's more rushed than my other pieces because, ironically enough, I'm also stressed with finals. I would have really liked to change the shading on her face so that it doesn't look like she got beaten by an angry student. I used ibisPaintX with a stylus.

[Photo] Teachers face many stressors from inside and outside the classroom

Jamison Hanway
May 18, 2024
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[Photo] Staff Editorial: Student spyware invades privacy while keeping kids on task

Apr 29, 2024
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[Photo] Getting Physical

Mar 22, 2024
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[Photo] Getting Physical

Chase Zagurski, Staff Reporter
Mar 22, 2024
Artist Statement: I wanted to incorporate something about college in it, but I wasn't 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.

[Photo] FAFSA failures frustrate future freshmen

Feb 9, 2024
I am terrible at perspective so this was really hard to do.

I had to google what a caffeine molecule looked like.

The Dar al-Shifa hospital, bombed by Israeli military.

From The River To The Sea

August Yancey, Artist/Reporter
Dec 5, 2023
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[Photo] Clothes and Codes

Alexa Leiting, In Depth Editor
Nov 22, 2023
"Once you know about Everett's, 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: I actually had some difficulty with this drawing and debating whether or not I should include certain details. I have no idea how I got the bottom right corner of the clothing rack to look that on fleek.

Artist Statement: Drawing this photo was fairly easy. I needed to look at a reference photo for what an IV bag actually looked like and I just went off of that and added red blood cells to signify the blood in the blood supply.

[Photo] Blood supply nearly drained

Rylee Newman, Staff Reporter
Nov 10, 2023
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[Photo] 92,000 reasons to start a tradition

Dylan Wiese, Sports Editor
Sep 27, 2023
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[Photo] Oppenheimer: a technical masterpiece

Dillon Stice, Staff Reporter
Sep 23, 2023
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[Photo] Sing us a song, we need a piano man

Alexa Leiting, InDepth Editor
Sep 23, 2023
Image by Patrick Blaise from Pixabay

From high school hallways to Hollywood red carpet

August Yancey, Staff Reporter
Sep 20, 2023
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