Month: October 2024
My Ladder of Language: Reflection
Creating a comic about my journey in writing and reading was both an enjoyable and refreshing experience. When I step back after completing this process I honestly feel a bit rejuvenated. Looking back at where I was and how I got to where I am now was a rewarding and fun experience. Additionally, It allowed […]
Read moreMy Sleeping Saga
This Sunday drawing was one of the most difficult because my head was exhausted from previous homework and assignments. I was having problems coming up with hilarious and creative ideas, so I started thinking about something I had personally experienced. I discovered that once I had the idea, creating the four panels was simple, and […]
Read moreShadows Can Be Deceiving
For my Quadriptych, I created a story called Shadows can be deceiving. It is a story about a boy walking through a corn maze at on a spooky autumn night where theres a full moon. He comes across this shadow which he thinks is a scary monster when in reality it’s just a scarecrow. The […]
Read moreSketch 7: Quadriptych
For this Sunday Sketch Assigment, I decided to tell a playful story about a bird and squrriel. I had a lot of fun drawing out the illistartions and creating the overall srory. The idea for this 4 panel comic book was very easy to come up. The story for this comic book was inspired by […]
Read moreTracing Stitches and Spinning Reflection
For this assignment, I analyzed how both authors used artistic patterns to enhance how they felt about trauma and growing up voiceless, figuratively or literally. But with their resilience and the healing power of comics, the authors found their voice and empowerment by the end of their books. Annotating my traced pages for this assignment […]
Read moreLiteracy Comic Reflection
Illustrating and writing this comic proved to be a difficult task. In the beginning, I would often open a blank sketchbook page and stare at it, having no idea where to start. Due to this struggle, I felt slightly overwhelmed with the whole process, which caused me to avoid this assignment for a short time […]
Read moreReflection on Literacy Narrative Comic
Comic Creating this assignment wasn’t too difficult, largely due to the preparation I did beforehand. I believe I developed a good storyboard, and I received productive feedback from some of my peers, which helped me improve my final draft. The process of creating the final draft involved making more detailed drawings, reimagining some of the […]
Read moreTracing Stitches and Spinning Reflection
The thesis of my comparison essay on Spinning and Stitches is: shades and arrangement of panels depict the struggles of David and Tillie but reveal the selfishness of parents in the memoirs therefore make readers empathize with author’s childhood experience while reflecting on the responsibility of parenthood. In the essay I discuss the parent-child relationship […]
Read moreWhat defines parent?
The use of shades in the two pages I traced from Spinning and Stitches are worth noticing. On the panel presented in page 288 from Stitches, the portrait of protagonist David is presented with a direct eye level camera angle. The panel is David’s reaction towards his father’s confession for giving him cancer when his […]
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