ENGRD101. Fall 2024. Sections 27 & 31.
For this sketch, I decided to remain in the sillier and goofier genre of comic, like I did for the triptych. This story shows the journey of someone seeing their neighbors have a garden, have the epiphany that they want a garden, water their grass with no seeds or anything like that, and then complain […]
Read moreMy thesis for my short essay is “Stitches and Spinning use visual techniques unique to comics to convey emotional isolation that the respective protagonists feel. But, while Spinning conveys Tillie’s isolation, pressure and anxiety, through overstimulation and a claustrophobic page, Stitches reflects David’s isolation, physical and emotional distance, with big empty spaces and a slow-paced […]
Read moreIn the Gutter Stitches by David Small and Spinning by Tillie Walden have their protagonists deal with and navigate through feelings of isolation. Both memoirs use techniques unique to comics, like visual space and pacing or flow, to better demonstrate how the protagonists are feeling throughout the book. David’s physical isolation from his family and […]
Read moreAlthough I don’t think this fully represents me in the slightest, it shows a couple of my qualities. I didn’t make any choices with my portrait as I just took the items I had in my bag today. Nothing was very challenging about this assignment because I didn’t have to make any creative choices. I […]
Read moreFor this Sunday sketch, I wanted to stay within the comedy theme for my triptych. My sketch is a kid laughing at someone slipping on a banana peel and because he’s laughing he can’t see the pile of banana peels he is about to slip on in the third panel. The challenging part of this […]
Read morehttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/American_football_ball.jpg https://images.rawpixel.com/image_800/cHJpdmF0ZS9sci9pbWFnZXMvd2Vic2l0ZS8yMDIyLTExL2pvYjk1Ni0wOTUuanBn.jpg This sketch took me a fairly long time. It took me a really long time to find photos that matched up. But, once I got the idea, it was pretty easy from there. I used Bazaart to edit the photos together. The rocket photo had a blank background and I thought the image […]
Read moreI enjoyed this Sunday sketch a lot. I also found it very helpful to translate my notes into images. I am a visual learner so I assumed it would be helpful, but I didn’t know how much having visuals of my notes would help me comprehend them. I appreciate the creative aspect of these sketches […]
Read moreA Hot Day in Atlanta For this sketch, I searched around my room for random items. I came across the Purell bottle and thought it would be an interesting item to sketch around. I looked at it from every angle and thought it kind of looked like a popsicle, so that’s what I decided to […]
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