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With the warm weather just around the corner, I decided to pick the photo with the teenager jumping into the pool.  Warm weather brings outdoor activities and summer brings free time for adventure.  This teenager’s spontaneity looks exhilarating.  For some reason the spikes that his wet hair makes with the gravity of his flip depicts this for me; I worked to exaggerate that in my sketch.  This photograph is also very simple with large shapes taking up the majority of the space instead of smaller details. As I spent time looking closer at the photograph, this became more apparent.  For the cheap camera and unprofessional circumstance this photograph was taken under, there is not even that much of a blur. Today people spend so much time aligning the click of a camera with a jump.  It is down to the second to actually get the model in the photo to be in the air. Even with the unprofessional situation and complex jump, it worked out perfectly. I love that this photo was definitely meant to exist.

After reading the comment sheets given back to me in class, I noticed a few things that I am really considering taking into consideration when re-configuring my comic.

-all 3 of my results told me to fill in the last two panels (I am still struggling to figure out what to illustrate there, if you have ANY ideas please let me know)

-a few comments were about my frames, mostly to change the size as to not have a grid for a page, however, all critics enjoyed the differences in frame and angle that were utilized

-2/3 people noted on my use of difference in focus, they both noted how they liked the focus shifting from people to objects and back to people, some fries are completely dedicated to a simple objects or a group of similar objects (i.e. a stack of books)

-all noted that my comic was relatively lighthearted and hopeful, this is the kind of emotion I was hoping to pull out of my readers, my journey was never really difficult so I wanted to show that I had a really positive experience with reading and writing when I was younger

Collectively, the critiques given by my peers were very helpful. I enjoyed seeing the feedback, both positive constructively critical. I think the comments will help me build better comic than I could have all by myself.

When approaching this assignment, I wanted to take on sketching without too much planning. Often I find that creativity is hindered by over-thinking and over-analyzing content, so I began drawing lines and creating the borders of my panels; using a pen so I couldn’t erase or backtrack. When sketching the images of individual moments from my narrative I tried to stray from using a single perspective, and attempted to compose creative renderings of my dialogue. I wanted to diversify the panels to make for a more interesting reading experience; alternating different shapes and sizes. I’m fairly happy with my rough sketch; the text has not yet been incorporated but the sketches I have currently will provide an outline for the text that will follow. Than I will be able to fine-tune the images, change the specs of certain panels, and incorporate shade and color.

Prior to starting this assignment, I didn’t expect to get anything out of tracing pages from Maus because I thought of the process as no different than photo-copying an image. However, while tracing I began to notice certain details within the comics that I had previously overlooked. I tend to be a fast reader, and I think its easy to miss things while glossing over a page. Annotating the pages would have taken much longer without the tracing process; as subtle themes and commonalities where popping into my head while tracing. I do believe that this practice helped me decipher a sort of “secret language” within the comics. I would also argue that during the writing process, ideas come to mind more readily when breaking the content down into chunks. It widens the scope when trying to identify substantive comparisons to make.

Drawing this imagine initially seemed like a fairly daunting task since I’m not good at recreating photo realistic images. However, I found it easier to just draw it in a style that I’m more adept at using. As I was drawing I began to find small details that I didn’t recognize from just glancing at the image. I can see the benefit of finding the important parts of an image by redrawing it by hand.

 

Drawing this imagine initially seemed like a fairly daunting task since I’m not good at recreating photo realistic images. However, I found it easier to just draw it in a style that I’m more adept at using. As I was drawing I began to find small details that I didn’t recognize from just glancing at the image. I can see the benefit of finding the important parts of an image by redrawing it by hand.

 

When I first had to draw this comic, I had trouble figuring out how to start. I don’t have much experience with this type of medium, so I felt like I had a million of choices when it came to designing the narrative. However, once I decided on a style, the rest fell into place easily. For me, drawing the comic was much easier than writing an essay; it was much more fun. I consider myself to be a visual person, so putting my thoughts into images was much more interested than trying to describe them with words.

When I first had to draw this comic, I had trouble figuring out how to start. I don’t have much experience with this type of medium, so I felt like I had a million of choices when it came to designing the narrative. However, once I decided on a style, the rest fell into place easily. For me, drawing the comic was much easier than writing an essay; it was much more fun. I consider myself to be a visual person, so putting my thoughts into images was much more interested than trying to describe them with words.

The general feedback that I received for my comic draft was that it was well on its way to being finished, with illustrations that made it easy to read. Fidan, Isaac and Filip also all agreed that my comic included lots of changes in angle, distance, and centering which made it interesting and appealing, however, I still feel like I would like to add a bit more variation in panel shape/ size if possible. Another suggestion that I received was to add a frame or say more about exactly where I am from. It would be possible to combine these two changes, and add a small circular frame within the third panel which adds more detail about where I am from, and also adds some more panel variation. Some other improvements that I would like to make to my literacy narrative comic are: to finish the illustrations, add colour, and integrate some of my narrative into the images. I would also like to come up with some better narrative in my final frame which brings my comic to a clean end.