I used to believe (original)

I was planning on editing these a bit more, but figured since they wouldn't count towards the assignment at all to just post them as the original sketches. Enjoyed these a lot more than the actual project though haha...

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The last part of Module 2: create a comic using black and white and no words using the following words/ideas: family, dog, wall, fence, water.

Poetry and Comics

I actually started this assignment without reading the instructions, so maybe I'll post my earlier attempts eventually. Ultimately, I was told to " create a twelve-panel grid and have text in each panel that alternatively begins 'I used to believe/but now I know.' Here's what I ended up with:

Reaction to Blood in the Gutter - McCloud

The third chapter in Scott McCloud's graphic novel covered some things that I had already heard of; the gutter effect in comics, various types of transitions between panels, etc., but also covered some that I hadn't. In reading a variety of both western and Japanese comics, I had passively taken in the very different styles, whereas McCloud has cleverly pointed out where they can be so different. Western comics tend to focus much more heavily on "action to action" transitions and a few others, but very rarely a transition called "aspect to aspect" in which time is sort of at a stand still and various images are used to depict the mood or setting. Japanese comics, on the other hand, make much more frequent use of "aspect to aspect" transition in comparison to their Western counterparts. I'm sure that now when I go to read a graphic novel, I will be looking much more closely at the scene transitions than I would have prior to reading Blood in the Gutter.

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For the other part of Module 2 we had to look at Pieter Brueghel's piece, Proverb and create a narrative from various sections of it. Please excuse how ridiculous the following story is:

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For this assignment we had to find a trailer that we had never seen before and take screen shots of each "key" scene. We then take those shots and, after numbering the order in which we took them, attempt to arrange them in a cohesive narrative. Mine isn't very cohesive, but if you look closely, maybe it will come to you:

Module 1 is over

Image 1 = Single Image Narrative
Image 2 = Usable Instructions for Making a Grilled Ham and Cheese
Image 3 = Part 3, entitled "Low Five!" Note that the first panel was originally from Frans Masereel, the second one is my build on it

Comments to follow eventually