ENGRD101. Fall 2024. Sections 27 & 31.
My comic plays on the double meaning of a “black diamond” run. Most people recognize the black diamond as a symbol of a difficult ski slope, but in my comic, it’s a literal black diamond at the end of the run! I spent a lot of time developing both the idea and the artwork, and […]
Read moreI wanted to make something humorous yet relatable to everybody for this triptych; therefore, my triptych is about how sometimes we have to repeat ourselves when we’re talking to someone that is playing their phone. I would say that the challenging part about this assignment would be the part where we should have fun with […]
Read moreTurning my literacy narrative into a comic shifted my perspective and emphasized the power of visual storytelling to capture emotions in simpler, yet impactful ways. Writing the narrative allowed me to immerse myself in sensory details, but the comic forced me to distill these memories into images, that could convey the same emotions better. Thinking […]
Read moreTracing and annotating pages from Stitches and Spinning was an interesting experience that pushed me to engage deeply with the authors’ storytelling techniques. By focusing on how David Small and Tillie Walden used elements like facial expressions, body language, and layouts, I could appreciate the subtle ways they convey trauma and isolation. Tracing revealed how […]
Read moreReflecting on my Literacy Narrative was a nostalgic journey that deepened my appreciation for how family shaped my love for language. My writing process began with freewriting, which felt unfamiliar, as I’m used to organizing my thoughts first. But allowing myself to record memories freely brought a natural flow to my writing, revealing details like […]
Read moreI have no idea where I got the idea for this comic but it just popped into my brain during our class. We were talking about something completely unrelated and suddenly I was like “what if there were these fish that were sketical of a restaurant serving obviously hooked worms.” And so I took 5 […]
Read moreWriting 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 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. […]
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