Author: Si Kai

Tracing the pages from Stitches and Spinning proved very different from what I was usually asked to do in English class. It forced me to ponder the power comics bring to sharing ideas and knowledge in real-time. By tracing Stitches, I realized how much information and emotion could be conveyed in a single page, despite […]

I watched a documentary about colonialization this weekend and the idea for a Quadriptych on British Raj popped into my head. I would use comedy to expose the “weirdness” (for a lack of better words) of colonialism underlying its violent nature. Here is the result of my work: My comic utilized a rather simple design: […]

Trauma is the dominant theme of both Stitches: A Memoir by David Small and Spinning by Tillie Walden. Small recounts family abuse and his struggle with losing his voice in 1950s Detroit, Michigan. Walden narrates the gendered and sexual violence imposed on her in contemporary Texas. Although the two authors convey the drastically different struggles […]

My Techno-Futurist Bag: When I pulled out everything from my bag, I realized how little I had in it. I literally only had my computer. This got me thinking about how reliant I am on technology. In turn, I decided to spruce up my image with my iPhone and AirPods. This would really hit home […]

I thought I would try something new for this week’s sketch. Breaking from my usual topics of politics and ideology, I decided to make a horror comic. Why not? It would be fun. Here is the result of my work: Creating this comic was not difficult, nor was coming up with the idea. I borrowed […]

Extreme urbanization has been a hot-button topic recently, especially within politics and sociology. I thought this concept could be explored in an interesting way with the Sketch 4 project. By combining famous skyscrapers with the dense redwood forest of California, I wanted to visualize what peaceful co-existence between humanity and nature could look like. I […]

When I saw this task, I immediately knew which class’s notes to convert into drawing: astronomy. It made perfect sense. Astronomy was a science in which we were already encouraged in class to take non-written notes. In exams, we could even answer questions with pictograms. I thought that the celestial sphere was a super cool […]

As I pondered what item to use for this sketch, the realization struck me that I could incorporate the very pen I used to draw the picture into the picture. In my mind, there was something philosophical about it, and so I delved down that rabbit hole. In the end, I decided to draw the […]

My avatar should reflect my love for politics and my international background. I found the perfect combination of this on my Chinese TikTok reel (thank you targeted ads!). As I discovered this image in China, there were no complicated licensing regulations for borrowing it. Yay! I simple slapped my name onto the top corner and […]