#discoverytask4

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Discovery Task 4:

This task was both easy and hard. I love photography, but I also tend to be more critical of my photos than of my drawings. It was hard for me to decide on a theme and feeling without feeling the need to go all out for it, so I went with something funny to try and take the pressure off. This took me around 1 and 1/2 hours, just because I was fighting with myself over the topic I wanted to tackle.

So I decided to portray the feeling you get when you have to get up and go to work and you are feeling decent when you get out the door and then realize in your haste you forgot something.

[comicsbyred-blog]

Discovery Task #4

I find the integration of real photos in comics to be appealing. However, I wanted to challenge myself to a strictly photo-only comic to elicit the feeling of happiness. I would say that this challenge disrupted my process as I did not spend an hour sketching and outlining then filling in color. However, I found that my process of an idea living in my head then coming to life through a medium, in this case photography, to still be the same. If I were to do this style of comic again I would like to challenge myself even further with integrating illustrations with real photos. 

In this comic, the narrator is not shown directly. The narrator is anonymous but from this comic the reader knows the narrator is a huge fan of its dog. We can infer this based upon the idea of the comic, giving their dog a treat and capturing the joy of it. I agree with McCloud that readers are more likely to listen to a cartoon narrator than a photo-narrator due to the illustrated element of the narrator.