Pmaloy24’s Hobbies

Pmaloy24 is a very creative and caring person, often thinking about others. She cares a lot about her friends and family, and hold’s traditional values near to her. Pmaloy24 enjoys reading books, swimming, drama, and baking with her grandfather.

When building her avatar, Her plan was to indirectly represent her values through colors and a symbol. She set the avatar up in 4 quarters, each quarter a different color. The 4 quarters were topped with two masks, with these representing through the color and the symbol of the masks. She chose this design because she felt it was the best way to organize her ideas into a neat, easy to recognize avatar. She wanted to represent the things that she cared about in a way that she could easily understand, but might take the viewer some time to decipher her avatar. When first viewing this, it seemed difficult to unravel what she was trying to represent. As she explained her ideas, the avatar became clear to me. I thought she portrayed this very well. Her various draft designs look similar to the final product, each using the colors and symbols to represent her hobbies and interests.

Pmaloy24’s final product includes two masks in the foreground of the avatar. These masks are a common symbol for Drama or Theatre, as Pmaloy24 stated, “The masks are yellow, as yellow was the color I chose to represent my love for friends and family.” The background includes 4 squares, each spotting a different color. The blue square was used to represent her love for swimming. She chose the color blue as it is an indicator for water, so the viewer can easily connect the dots. The pink square was used to represent her love for reading. Pmaloy24 enjoys the tranquil and peaceful nature of reading a good book, and considers it one of her favorite pastimes. She also says that “The color grey collides with the color yellow in my avatar because both colors represent my love and care for my friends and family.” Finally, the color green is used by Pmaloy24 to represent the time she spends with her grandfather learning to bake. As she talked about this time, she said: “I consider this time with my grandfather a core memory and something that I will remember for a long time.” The bonus being rewarded by her retaining that knowledge and using it throughout her life. 

Pmaloy24 and I used a similar strategy when coming up with the design for her avatar. We both used certain objects or symbols to represent our likes and dislikes, our hobbies and our feelings. Where I used physical objects as my symbols, she used colors. Pmaloy24 did a great job coming up with her avatar, and I think her being extremely creative helped tremendously in the final product of her avatar.

“Swimming Pool” by oatsy40 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.