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I found the tutorial extremely helpful. I have a lot of trouble getting the details right on drawings and so to see the gifs of the drawing in action helped me to understand how to frame some of the detailed works. I think it helped me draw a much better tree than I would have drawn in past comics and I really enjoyed using the tutorial overall

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Discovery Task 10 - Travel

“I wouldn’t say I’m superstitious. But I am a little stitious.”

There’s a cemetery on the way to my boyfriend’s house, and I am just superstitious enough to hold my breath when I drive past a graveyard. So, when you were listing possible options for this assignment and mentioned graveyards I decided why the hell not?

I’m actually very happy with how this turned out. I went to the cemetery and took a ton of photos. It was almost sundown, and it was peaceful, and I wanted to capture that in my comic. I used colors a lot to show my changing relationship with the place. The first two panels are very drab, the grass in the opening panel is almost yellow and the sky is gray. In contrast, the final panel has flowers on tombstones and the sunset colors are warm. I wanted to capture the kind of specific love that a graveyard can possess. The one tombstone that is featured was one of the first I came upon and there is nothing about it that is not heartbreaking. I would want a reader to process the panel, and understand exactly what is happening. I have several more photos of individual headstones, and I could definitely see myself expanding on this project.

I decided to use aspect to aspect transitions because I want my audience to feel like they are walking through this place themselves. The scale of things actually felt fairly successful, as I was working from photo reference. Below is the reference for the fourth panel.

My relationship with this place has changed through this project, and I will no longer hold my breath passing this cemetery. Just this one, though.

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I liked the way the panels were set up throughout this comic. I usually always just make my panels to where the page has no empty space because i feel like it will look lacking. This comic looked completely full while still utilizing the sprawled about panels and the empty space against the borders. I would like to try and incorporate the into my final project in some way.

Workshop task:

For my comic I’m doing types of people you see at the gym so there won’t really be a main character but one person I plan to draw is the girl who wears light colored shorts and has visible “swamp ass”. Since I’m focusing more on their physical aspects I plan to do close up shots of the stand or features rather than full body and face images. That is why a few of these are cut off or are only parts of her body, I wanted it to portray what I plan to show.

For the hands I tried to get a hang of how I waned to draw the hands at first and whether they would be bigger or thinner. I then tried to work on differenthand shapes and motions and used my own hand as a reference. I tried to do a bit of shading in some places to help show the wrinkles. For the expressions I didn’t draw hair cause that wasn’t my main concern and I focused a lot on eyebrow positions cause I personally use my eyebrows to express emotions a lot and I feel like most people do. I I also used mouth shape as well as eye shapes. So for happy your eyes tend to get smaller when you smile so I made the eyes smaller and sleep I made the eyes closed cause they would be closed. I also added wrinkles where I thought they would naturally form on the face.

During this workshop I had a bit less to ask my group since most of my ideas had already been worked through and were something I was happy about. Something we did decide though was for me to color code the areas of the gym and that way if a page is red you know it’s one section or if it’s blue it’s the other. This helped me to create a way to organize my work and the comic itself.

During this workshop my group helped me decide to also do a diagram of the gym and how it’s laid out. This way I can separate the areas into categories and display the types of people that you can often find in those areas. They also helped me decide to use close ups of people to show their significant trait rather than draw a whole person since drawing people is not something I especially excel at. Once again this workshop helped me to expand on my original idea and helped me to expand my final comic.

This workshop really helped me finalize the idea for my final comic. I decided to do a guide of the UCF Recreation and Wellness Center and the types of people who go there. My group partners helped me decide to talk to my coworkers and ask them the types of people they often see at the gym since I work there. This workshop was extremely helpful and my group got a lot done

Journal #8

one idea i had for my final comic project was in the genre of humor. It would be a sort of guide to the types of people who go to the UCF gym. I am a student employee at the gym and so i spend a fair amount of time there. this means i see everyone who is there constantly. I can talk about the girl who wore light colored leggings and now you can see her butt-sweat. I can talk about the guy who's at the gym all day everyday and its protein powder like its candy. It would be a fun way to poke fun at the people i see everyday. Half the time i think of these things while walking through the gym and wish I had someone to say them too. Im also sure my coworkers will love the idea and will gladly give me more ideas or people to draw.

Journal #6

I have stolen I similar drawing style to that used in Mom’s Cancer. I like how he kept the people very simplistic and didn’t go in depth with facial details or clothing. I personally can’t draw faces very well so when I saw how well this style worked for him I decided to adapt it into my own comics. In this specific panel I also liked how he had a literal visual representation of how his mom said she was feeling. I always find it fun when something that is meant to be abstract is shown in a literal sense and I appreciated that here. I’d like to incorporate this idea into more of my future comics.

Journal Posting #5

As I've gone on with drawing comics my style has adapted a bit but not in any drastic ways. I have learned i like keeping faces simple in style and focusing more on the background since i am not that good at drawing faces and tend to get upset when they look bad. I have also developed a style of keeping all my comics black and white. I prefer normal pencil for shading opposed to colored pencil because i feel it blends better. I also like to outline in black ink pen to make a harsh contrast between the lines of the image and the details. I know why style can adapt more and most likely will. As of now i am happy with the way a lot of my comics turn out and hope to be able to improve during the duration of the semester.

I went off of my memory from a Starbucks I went to for the first time recently. I chose as aspect to aspect form so I showed the door and the shelf where they sell mugs and then the counter where I picked up my order. I feel it’s fairly accurate for having gone off my memory. It could be more accurate in scale but again I went off memory.

I chose to write about my hometown. It’s famous for housing New York Jews and Italians as well as being fondly referred to as “gods waiting room”. A town where it’s name makes people thing of luxury when in reality all there is to do is shop, eat and beach.

This was a physics assignment about Newton’s Second Law and gravity. I drew various things mentioned in the assignment such as spaceship, Star and suitcase. Other images are things I that come to mind when reading it. In my mind a flying bird or a ball falling represent gravity so I drew those as well. This style allows me to interpret the work how I want and to have fun with the drawings.

Journal #4

for my adaption project I originally had the idea to translate the necessary steps for basic lifeguarding skills into comic format. I realized that this is an extremely detail task and that most likely would be more stressful than fun to make. So i had another idea come to mind. I am a big fan of the former application known as “vine” and have decided to take some of the most well known vines from the app and turn them into a comic. They have previously been adapted into poem format in the book “vine and honey”. Im going to take them and make them more visual as well as more abstract and make them comics.

I was surprised by how easily I completed this task, I thought nine panels would take forever and be extremely hard but it wasn’t. I feel as thought I had more space to communicate. I especially liked my walls closing in panels and the oxygen tank panel. I think it depicts more so what it’s like living with it and shows my own personal coping mechanisms that I find work best for me.

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