Author: Chenyari (Mattie) Randall

“My trip to Japan”

Fall 2025

(Made with Adobe Photoshop)

This is a photo of me in Japan. I made this image kind of like a vision board for when I hopefully get to go there one day. The reason I wrote the line “life with no money is better in Japan” and look a little beat up in the image is because I’ve happily run around Japan, spending all my money on clothes, toys, food, and whatever else (as you can see by my smile). I added a noise gradient and saved the image in low quality because I thought it made it look more like something taken on an old digital camera. I used cherry blossoms when I made my pattern because sakura (or cherry blossom) is the national flower of Japan!

Images used:

“Fully bloomed cherry blossom (Unsplash)” by Elijah Henderson. CC0. Wikimedia Commons. Published April 4, 2017.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fully_bloomed_cherry_blossom_(Unsplash).jpg 

“Sanjō-street, Nara, Japan.jpg” by Kounosu. CC BY-SA 3.0. Wikimedia Commons. Photo taken September 22, 2008.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanjou-street_Nara_Japan.jpg 

“Cartoon girl clipart, illustration (PSD)” by rawpixel (digitally enhanced public domain image). Public Domain.
https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8704870/psd-cartoon-illustrations-public-domain

I added a cartoon version of “me” in Japan as a vision board for when I one day make it to Japan.

For mine, I wanted to use all the shapes to see how they could be manipulated. I wanted to make it look nice, so I tried to use colors that all go together… Once I stopped thinking about it so much and trying to make it perfect (this is not draft 1 lol), it ended up being fun to make!