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Journal Posting 9

For this journal posting I chose a comic strip from Garfield. The past two weeks I have started reading once again comics on the infamous cat that I didn’t give myself the chance to read as a kid. Reading these comics, after learning so much in the course, I remember now why these comics were so engaging as a child. The illustrator uses techniques throughout his comic where just in one panel, you can imagine the comic moving like a short clip. Focusing on the panel where Garfield is eating his food quickly, my brain automatically pictures his paws moving back and forth quickly as he eats. Not having a distracting background helps to keep focus on this action panel. The use of lines in the authors action panels help the audience see garfield as a visual clip, a short show you could say.

Facial expressions and paws

Workshop for final project

Workshop task for final project

Workshop #2 for final project

Notes from peers:

The comic is geared towards a more humours genre.

It isn’t too late to change the panels to incorporate different sizes to create dramatic effects during specific scenes of my choosing. Because the second half of the story will be more action based, there is room for there to be a slight change in the style of the panels and page set-up

The comic does have the potential to be a webcomic, since there is an uproar of a younger crowd that enjoys social media and cats, this would allow that audience to access the material at ease and share with just the click of a button.

While cats are mischievous and their behaviors can have past traumas linked to them, because the cat’s ideas are so peculiar and out-there, the comic would be non-fiction. It could be possible that cats have had some similar thoughts as to Lord Darkness, but until the evidence comes forth, it will be labeled as a humorous-fiction comic.

Workshop #1 for final project

Character sketching

Journal Posting 8

For my final project, I will be continuing forward with my adaptation comic.

My adaptation project was an awareness issue on “How to Gain a Cat's Trust”. The comic itself followed the story-line of an adopted cat, Lord Darkness who was adopted by a couple. The comic is shown from the perspective of the cat. The ending of the comic shows Lord Darkness coming to terms with his new home and cat territory. For my final project, Lord Darkness will choose whether he comes to peace with his new owners or if he will become dominate over them.

For the 10th, and final discovery task, I drew a pizza place I went to recently for the first time: Pizza Mia.

Honestly, it looked better in person than it does in my drawing. I wanted to show it from the perspective of seeing it from the parking lot, to the first step inside, and a couple more steps in to where you can order. I think there were so many details to draw- the picnic cloth on select tables (which I honestly don’t have a clue on how to draw that pattern), to counting how many chairs went on each table, seeing what was the special of the day, etc. So what I learned from this is, rhetorically the author has to choose what they want to stand out. A place can have a million details, but when it comes to a drawn comic, the author must choose what details are important when telling the story.

I’ll explain my choosing of details: the first panel has the name because I want people to know the name of the pizza spot. I didn’t show the inside because the tint of the windows during the day didn’t show too much of the inside.

The second panel I drew the tables and chairs because I want people to know that it’s not a huge restaurant. It’s big enough for maybe 40 people.

By the third panel I wanted the audience to know that the pizza is ready to serve, so there’s no wait. There are heat lamps above them and a window to ensure that nothing flies on the pizza and it stays warm. I also drew the condiment stand and the wine bottle rack.

It was hard to choose what was important and maybe if I drew better, my salt and pepper would look more like spices rather than a baby bottle.

I decided to copy a panel from Sam Sharpe. They were both fairly easy to draw because I looked at the comic book for both drawings, but I changed the dialogue for the second panel that I drew. Shammy nor the audience knows the secrecy behind the Sharpe Crime Family Car so in the panel I drew, Shammy is demanding some answers, worried to discover the answer. I liked the simplicity of the comic, but how they change the dialogue to ‘sh’ when there is an ‘s’ in a word. I think after drawing this comic, the art wasn’t so much the importance of the comic, the the message behind it regarding troublesome families and mental illnesses.

Overall, the comic was easier to draw the second time around once I became comfortable with the curves and the shapes that the artist incorporated.

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Journal Posting #6: "Things I've Learned/ Things to Steal"

I decided to choose a comic by Allie Brosh, which has by far been one of my favorite comics this semester: Depression Part Two from Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened.

In this comic, Brosh’s protagonist character isn’t drawn in a style that is commonly seen. But this is because Brosh doesn’t feel like she is normal compared to everyone else around her, so what better way than to draw a peculiar shaped head, large eyes, and an undefined body.

In this panel, seeing the full-haired blonde woman with blue eyes and eyelashes shouting out positive messages in a bright color represents how those who are depressed see the world, a beautiful person popping up on your social media telling you to stay calm and be a unicorn.

Journal Posting #5: "My Evolving Process"

In all honesty, when it comes to pressure, the low-stakes project and the high-stakes project have the same level of stress. Not being very artistic when it comes to drawing, each comic that I’ve had to create stresses me out.

I have however noticed, that the number of hours that it takes to draw out my comics have shortened, which is nice considering that I started out at 6 hours.

For this specific project, I took more time on the brainstorming process because I want the comic to be represented in a way that still stays true to the tutorial. I have gone back and forth as to whether I should show the do’s and don’ts to the piece, even though the tutorial only mentions the ‘how to’ aspect. Because I’ve been so big on trying to respect the original author’s idea, I feel like for this project, I felt more restricted. I have had pages worth’s of brainstorming panel by panel, that I’ve had to scratch off and redo because I feared that the humorous aspect was taking away from the comic’s purpose.

For the first time in a comic that I’ve created, I added color. I love black and white comics, it’s almost nostalgic to when I read comics in the newspaper as a child. But since my comic was a humorous piece, during both workshops in class, several students encouraged that color would help with giving my comic a more lighter tone to it.

Overall, adapting a comic is hard. It is easier to create a story from scratch because you can let it go wherever it takes you. But adapting someone’s original idea loses the freeway to follow your own lead.

Feedback from Workshop #2

Feedback from Workshop #1

Adaptation project drafting

I decided to draw a map of my room for this discovery task. Whenever my mom comes into my room, she has a hard time maneuvering due to all my cat’s toys being on the floor. I have actually set up my room in a way where all of their things can fit best.

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