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Sunday Sketch: What’s in Your Bag?

fullsizeoutput_25d2 When looking at this photo, one may notice there isn’t a whole bunch of stuff in my bag. Nevertheless, we are going to go through it.

-Backpack: my catchall, has some garbage in it, grey-blue, basic

-Macbook: has my whole life on it, very preppy, stickers are very mainstream, keeps up with the basic aesthetic

-Assorted Notebooks and Folders: it is hard to tell here, but all notebooks and folders are labeled and color coordinated, some are chock-full, others not so much

-Planner: organizes my life, if I didn’t have this thing I don’t know what I would do… for real

-Pencil Pouch: includes all colors of Bic Flair pens (my favorite), some empty gum wrappers, white-out, 17 tubes of chapstick, and a trusty calculator

-Headphones: used when I don’t feel like talking to people and at the gym (the former is much more common)

-Chem Lab Notebook: the death of me

-Water Bottle: Hydrate or Die-drate my friends, also includes fun stickers including a green bottle and two lemons [guess what it is ;)]

-Post-its: I put these everywhere, along with my planner they keep my life from falling apart

-Gum/Mints/Lara Bar: used for breath freshening and protein, I use this stuff religiously

– Maus: well, you know what this is for

I actually didn’t leave anything out of the photo so this is the authentic experience. I think this photo helps exemplify my organization. For example, I pack and unpack my bag the exact same way everyday and if it is out of order it really messes with my day. I don’t really have any interesting things in my bag, which I hope doesn’t reflect what people’s perceptions are of me.

 

What’s in Your Bag?

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I x copy of Maus I & II

1 x over-used Macbook Pro

1 x knock-off iPhone charger

1 x notebook I’ve had since freshman year

1 x computer charger

1 x set of earbuds that aren’t mine

1 x unopened copy of Nuovo Espresso II

1 x copy of Nuovo Espresso Supplementari

1 x portable charger I always forget to charge

1 x pack of colored pens

1 x Kindle that I don’t read enough

1 x set of keys

I x copy of Captains of Consciousness

1 x mechanical pencil that’s currently out of lead

1 x blue ink pen

2 x white pens

 

This photograph is somewhat reflective of myself as a person. I feel like the content in this image (to the naked eye) would portray, “an astute, well-organized, overly-battery-concious high school student.” But I am definitely far from orderly. Though I definitely have some degree of OCD which compels me straighten things and orient all objects at  right angles. I am very particular about how things look and appear, and for whatever reason the brightly colored carpet beneath the objects bothered me, and created a backdrop that I found distracting. So I edited the photo to make the carpet appear black & white, with only the objects appearing in color. Also, when I was arranging the objects on the floor someone stepped into the room and said, “that looks like a crime scene.” That comment gave me the idea of outlining each object like detectives did in old murder mystery movies, which is something that never made sense to me,  but I thought it created a more interesting visual nonetheless.

Triptych: Undatable

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Of all of the sketch assignments so far, this one took me the longest to get started. I kept trying to brainstorm a narrative, and envision a comic strip to go along with it, but nothing was coming to mind. While brainstorming I was intermittently taking phone-breaks to text and scroll through instagram when the idea of a meme started to surface. This triptych is inspired by the popular “expectation versus reality” memes which are hard to go a day without seeing (or at least for me they are). In the midst of using my computer and phone excessively, I thought it would be funny to use an online dating theme. I wanted to portray how people find confidence behind a phone screen, but that confidence can tend to fade away when face-to-face.

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After reading the assignment for this sketch, I started looking for everything in groups of three.  I noticed the number of posters on my friends dorm room walls, stacks of drawers under beds, countless hanging lights, etc.  However, nothing stood out in terms of creating a narrative. It wasn’t until I was sitting at my desk, when I noticed several photo booth pictures pinned to my bulletin.  Each picture came with an expression and the idea stemmed from there.

I have to admit I struggled in the beginning with this assignment. I was a bit discouraged, because the previous sketch assignments came to me fairly quickly.  I think this was in part due to the fact that we had to find or create the artistic visual as well as a narrative. As opposed to being given a page from a book, or using notes to create a visual image.

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SKETCH 5: TRIPTYCH

Probably the most difficult part of creating this sketch assignment was deciding what to draw and how to chose a story that will fit in just three frames. I spent a lot of time just looking around me and trying to pick one object and write a super-short story about it. However, suddenly I recalled one post that I saw on some website a long time ago. There was a comment “I would do anything for you, I would even step on a Lego!”. I thought it would be funny to use this idea and create a conversation of a couple where the boyfriend proves his love by saying that he would step on a Lego for her. I found the idea of using only 3 panels challenging, but great due to the fact, that it made me think of something relatively creative and not to spend time and space for useless material. Overall, I think it was very engaging and interesting experience.

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Photo: by me

Esca-pea

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Esca-pea 2When trying to come up with an idea for my triptych comic, it took me ages to think of something that I was happy with. I had lots of ideas for three-panel narratives, however, it took me a while before I was happy with the final pun. My mother is absolutely crazy with her sayings, and because she visited last weekend, some of her mad lines are still stuck in my head. I think that she probably influenced this triptych a lot. Esca-pea is definitely something that she would say at the dinner table!

Once I had decided on the narrative, I found it quite easy to draw the images. I did a couple of rough sketches before, just so I had an idea of the angles and how I would make it work, but the images are pretty simple. I almost didn’t add colour to my drawings, however, I am glad that I did because I think the second version of my triptych is much brighter and more fun than the second.

Crafting this sort of comic strip was different from other writing I’ve done this semester just because it was so short. For example, my literacy narrative draft was over 1000 words – this has 5 words in it. The triptych is also different because the words do not make sense without the accompanying images. If it was just the text alone, no one would understand the joke, however, if I hadn’t have included a picture of me falling asleep reading a comic in my literacy narrative, the words would still have made sense.

Overall, I enjoyed the limitations of only having three images because it really made me think about the value of everything that I included. I would find it hard to repeat this task again and again though as I think I would run out of ideas.

Sketch 5 (triptych)

I honestly had no idea where to start with this sketch assignment.  In my head I tried to think of play-on-words and how I could make them into comic strips.  I read and reread the assignment multiple times hoping it would just come to me.  Once I came up with the idea to use a “knock-knock joke” I thought I would do something with the famous “orange you glad I didn’t say banana” line.  However, I did not know where the flow and stages of the comic would go besides that.  Then, I came up with this “who’s” “who” “hoo” word jumble.

It was a challenge to decide whether or not the owl should be seen in the panel where he answers the question of “who’s there.”  I did not want to show that it was an owl until the last panel even though the answer of “hooooooooooo” does this job.  Then, I had to decide whether the lady inside the house would answer with “hoo who” or who who”.  This would indicate whether or not she could differentiate the words and whether or not she already knew an owl was outside.  I purposely went with “who who” and drew a very surprised face in the end to show she was not expecting the owl.  While the reader knows it is an owl from its previous answer, that is taking place outside the house purposely covered from the lady inside.  IMG_20180225_0001default

Sketch 5: Triptych

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When I first began, admittedly, it was difficult to think of ideas.  This is especially because I wanted to kept terse yet meaningful.   Thus, I decided to make inanimate objects have human characteristics.  Then, those inanimate objects turned out to be drinks.  This idea came from, initially, Veggie Tales and Sausage Party.  Both give foods personalities and human characteristics.  This comic strip was different than anything else we have done this semester because we actually drew an entire sequence rather than one image.  It was challenging at first because I have never really made a comic before.  In my second window, I decided to use a technique that McCloud described where I focused in on one subject.  Also, I ha dot accompany the images with words that told a story.  One interesting thing I did was I already knew how the story would turn out.  Thus, I drew the images first and then filled in the boxes with text.

 

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A Matter of Perspective

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Perhaps the most difficult aspect for me was finding a simple story that I was able to tell in just three frames. I had never really had to reduce a story to such a small span of time and was thus a challenge to think of it that way. However, how I did it was think of a punchline at the end that would create some emotion and then build a story around that.

I’m currently in the process of becoming more familiar with digital art so I pushed myself to draw every element in the Triptych. This was also a very big challenge for me but as I got more invested in making this project, it became significantly easier, to the point where drawing the man at the end was easier than deciding how to make sand.

This was somewhat similar to the human document project from last week because I had to find a story with very big limitations on my possibilities and thus I had a starting metric to go by.

 

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