ENGRD101. Fall 2024. Sections 27 & 31.
This four-panel layout was interesting to work with! I was able to give a “beat” of hesitation in my narrative, as the fork and spoon looked at each other. This comic is about how Spoon and Fork believe they do not have any siblings, but then a new student comes to class, Spork, that looks […]
Read moreYou can find my comic here. Writing my literacy narrative as a comic was a very interesting experience. First of all, it was difficult to decide what to include and what to leave out. I only had three pages to make and I changed the layout many times, so I cannot imagine how people decide […]
Read moreThe process of making part 2 of this literacy narrative was very unique to me. It was the first time I’ve had a big assignment where I also had to focus on the visual aspect of my work. I was forced to take things I’ve learned from the various works we’ve read and create my […]
Read moreFor 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 moreThe most challenging part of this assignment was crafting a story that was both compact and interesting. The lack of panels gave me limited space, and thus I had to create a story in which the viewer could use the gutters to construct the missing parts. Compared to a triptych, where my story flowed from […]
Read moreWhile I had a plethora of experience in writing essays, turning my literacy narrative into a comic presented a whole new set of challenges. In my literacy narrative I included an abundance of examples from past experiences I had with both reading and writing in school and recreationally, which disrupted the flow of the chronological […]
Read moreWhen I first drafted my literacy narrative, it was extremely rocky as I was, and still am, not quite sure how to write such an abstract topic. The sudden freedom that was given to me actually left me with fewer options than I thought I would end up with. I threw words onto the page, […]
Read moreI made a quadriptych about my dog stealing food from our trashcan while we were out of the house. He is usually not so smart, but he gets very creative when getting treats. The most challenging part of this assignment was deciding what to include and exclude in my comic strip, but being able to […]
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