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Read moreThe Secret Language of Comics: Visual Thinking and Writing
ENG101.04 Fall 2018
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Read moreLooking back at my week, I remembered several funny stories that happened. This one, however, stood out to me because I feel that I can use techniques that I learned from the comics I read in class before. The first panel starts with a big picture and explains the general setting of the story.…
Read moreContents: Academic Planner Italian book Laptop Water bottle Folder Notebook Calculator Pencil bag I have the habit of carrying only the things I need that day. This photo was taken on a Thursday, and I have English, Accounting, and Italian that day. Instead of carrying all my notebooks and folders all the time, I…
Read moreI found this week’s sunday sketch to be very challenging but in an enjoyable way. The most difficult part was coming up with a topic for the assignment. Most short comics I have read before have four panels, which makes this one quite different. The main character in my comic finds it difficult to…
Read moreThis assignment is different than anything I have done previously for any other classes. Not only did choosing the pages take the long time, so did the tracing process. The process made me realize what I am drawn to first, which later led me to understand Spiegelman’s choice of moment, image, flow, word, and frame…
Read moreThis was not a good sign. Her eyes blinked She would never see her again. It stung her As she lay there Her breathing calmed. She could feel herself against the floor. She would never see her mother again. This text is taken from the novel “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak. I recently got this…
Read moreI walked into the screening of “Yours in Sisterhood” by Irene Lustig very skeptical about the content of the film. I thought, “It is just going to be a film about women reading letters from years ago… How powerful can the message be?” Instead, I was blown away with the raw and simple content of…
Read moreFor this week’s Sunday sketch, I was introduced to the art works of Christoph Niemann. Niemann is an illustrator who creatively makes 2D art around 3D objects. Niemann’s art seemed to me easy to recreate at first. I thought about finding a round object and just turning it into one of the tires of a car.…
Read moreI decided to take Visual notes for my Italian class. I found this surprising helpful for language classes since I can translate the words with pictures. Since the topic we are on currently is food, I sketched out my notes to make it look like a menu. I found that the grouping of the different…
Read moreGrowing up bilingual, I had to learn how to read twice. Writing my narrative made me realize the fact that I stopped reading as much when the process became difficult. For a few years, I wrote only because I had to, and not because I wanted to. I almost forgot how cathartic it is to just…
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