4/10/2017

Agenda

  • Logistics and announcements
  • Presentations
  • Invisible Comics
  • Homework and Weds preview

 

Logistics and announcements

  • If you haven’t post about score card route on Discussion Forurum on Canvas
  • Check out call for collaborators
  • First workshop moved from Wed 4/12 to Wed 4/19
  • I will collect your score cards this Friday

 

Presentations

Round 1:

  • Hanae- demonstration of drawing her character Manami, a young professional woman who works in an office. She talks about how she started with anime styles, then learned from California Institute of Art style often used at Cartoon Networ (esp Adventure Time) and other simplified styles that accentuate cuteness and simplicity. The character has appeared in three comics stories so far.
  • Jacob – elevator pitch for “The Rock.” The story of a rock-paper-sissor champion who has to overcome a major career loss to win a tournament prize and save his beloved cat. This will probably be a three-part mini series rather than a continuing comic.
  • Katie – demonstration of how to use a light box (hers is $40 from Amazon). She does an initial sketch in a notebook (simple, inexpensive paper. Then she goes over it in tracing paper, which allows her to select which lines to emphasize. Then the light box allows her to project the tracing over nicer quality finishing paper. She traces with red and blue mechanical pencils because she can ink over them more smoothly than normal graphite.
  • Brie – elevator pitch of a fanfiction comic based on the Harry Potter universe. She argues that it would have broad appeal because of HP’s continued popularity. She wants to use her journalism instructor to create a new faculty at Hogwarts, and update the politics to match our current US moment. Aiming it at a WWU student audience.

Discussion: Invisible Comics

Modality- how your senses are engaged in a text

Multimodality–multiple means of communication simultaneously

Comics = linguistic modality + visual modality

 

Presentations (Round 2)

  • Matthew – demonstration of how panel design works in an issue of Bat Woman. Panel styles are mashed up–photo realism vs classic cartooning style. The styles overlap to show complex characterization and frame of mind. Page layout is used as a device to cover vast timescales or arrangements of ideas. The demonstration showed how to pick apart and experience extremely dense comics layouts.
  • Julia – elevator pitch for “Balloon,” a whimsical fantasy about traveling through parallel universes using a hot air ballon. Each characters all come from different universes and exemplify different speculative identities. She is exploring pixel art as her medium.
  • Courtney – Collage on the contrasting art styles from Decender and Modded

  • Tori – Elevator pitches about her creative/scholarly project about drug use. She will examine the topic from a bunch of angles, and the final product will be a scrap-book style text with children images. Rooted in the question “but what are drugs, the bad ones?” The project opens with the science and social views on drugs. The second half is purely creative and artistic expression. Wants to use mixed media to add tactile elements.
  • Justin H- pitches a post-apocolytic social/technological comic called “Empty Skies.” Explores ideas of A.I. and species level survival in an uncertain future. Wants to distinguish space and human characters in distinct art styles.

Homework

Presenters this week

  • Jeanette – Demo
  • Rock – Elevator pitch
  • Marcus – EP
  • Sandra – drawing demo
  • Megan- EP
  • Jacob EP
  • Celine – Collage
  • Elijah -EP
  • Alisa – Demonstration + collage
  • Devon – EP
  • Kieran – Demo