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Solo Song Research

I've decided to use Van Halen's song titled Jump. It was released as the lead single of their album 1984. Van Halen is a Grammy award-winning American hard rock band known for its energetic and powerful live shows. As early as 1981, Eddie Van Halen had written the keyboard part that would be eventually this song, Jump.

Jump is one of the prominent anthems of all intros for sports events and championships; because of the energetic vibe, the song gives to the fans, which hype up the fans and that's what sports community wants.  However, David Lee Roth (one of the composers of this song) wrote the lyrics from driving and cruising around Los Angeles in his vintage 1951 Mercury convertible. He remembered a news report flashing into his TV about a man threatening to jump off a building. He thought that there is always that one person who's telling the guy to "Go ahead and jump". Because of that, the lyrics of the chorus was born.

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A full overview of what the song is actually about. (Start to Finish)

Panel 1 Artfolio Progress

This is the work that I've so far for my series one portfolio.

My next steps would be creating drawings or art print with a theme of politics. I was thinking about doing half the face of famous presidents such as Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and etc then the other half of the face could be print.

I decided to use presidents/politicians for my theme propaganda is because personally, I observe that these people who are on a high position, they have different opinions, views, characteristics once everyone is not watching them. In other words, they're two-faced. That's why I'm doing half their face drawn with charcoal or pencil, and the other is in print.