ENGRD101. Fall 2024. Sections 27 & 31.
Writing my narrative as comic was significantly more difficult for me than I thought it would be going into the project. Given the time constraint, lack of excellent drawing skills, and length suggestions, I had a hard time figuring out what moments to keep and what to omit. The written literacy narrative was relatively easy […]
Read moreMy Literary Comic can be found here. Making the literacy comic was definitely a learning experience. Before now, i had never made a comic before. I think it would have been much harder to draw the comic if I had not written the literacy narrative beforehand. The biggest obstacle I had while creating the literacy […]
Read moreLink to: Literacy Narrative, Part 2: Comic If I had to sum up my experience creating my Literacy Comic in one word, it would be “enlightening.” This is my first time making a comic and my first time making any type of graphic project in an English class. When we did Literacy Narrative 1, it was […]
Read more9 10/21 It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (second half) Literacy Narrative, part 2 Sketch 7: Quadriptych 10/23[…]
Read moreFrom top left to bottom right:Owala water bottle- I finally bought one when I found out there was a built in strawFolder- The only documents I really have in there are from ENGRD 101Windows Surface- I love this laptop and the color is niceBookbag- I think this is self explanatoryiPad and apple Pencil- Purchased in […]
Read moreMy friends and I have been watching the Harry Potter series with a dog named Queen. She has a nasty habit of wanting to sit on people, and she does so quite abruptly. I think the panels being almost identical except for the scene of the movie changing and Queen changing her attention captures how […]
Read moreThese are two images of the same location (St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands) taken by my boyfriend, Daniel Wodkins, and me. He has an iPhone 15 pro max and I have an iPhone 14 pro. We both took photos of the view at the same time, but ended up with entirely different color compositions. […]
Read moreI usually doodle or draw as I take notes. Sometimes the doodles are related to the notes and sometimes they are just random drawings. I like to visualize processes in flow charts, and I like to use pictures to digest information. Some of the drawings/depictions in this visual note taking were already on my original […]
Read moreTurning my literary narrative into a comic was a new and interesting experience. Visual thinking and portrayal are not things I had to incorporate in my writing before, at least not since elementary school. It was cool expanding my writing mediums and trying out a new genre. Creating a comic takes a whole different perspective. […]
Read moreIt was easier for me to write my literacy essay as a comic rather than an essay. I tend to write in a concise manner; writing a comic allowed the reader to fill in the gutters, and I could include just the important parts of the story. I don’t have to add every detail or […]
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