The Secret Language of Comics: Visual Thinking and Writing
ENG101.04 Fall 2018
Contents: pencil pouch – I honestly don’t really use this anymore, so I don’t know why I still keep it in my backpack. Its contents include an assortment of pencils and colored pens that I used much more in high school. a roll of plastic icing bags – I had forgotten that these were in […]
Read moreWhen I was thinking about what topic I wanted my triptych to be about, I decided to make it a bit lighter and more personal than my previous sketches have been. These panels portray one unfortunate morning where I was woken up by construction going on outside my window at about 5:00 am. This continued […]
Read moreWhenever I hear people who talk about video games who haven’t had a lot of exposure to said video games (and this would usually be adults), I get a bit apprehensive about what they say. That’s because it’s almost always going to be associated with things like how lazy teenagers are or how the violence […]
Read moreBefore beginning the assignment I thought that this would be the most difficult writing assignment I have worked on, as I don’t have a background in drawing and I don’t really have that much experience using WordPress. However, after beginning the tracing process (and even though it was explicitly stated in class), I realized the […]
Read moreMetal bars barricaded every access point
I walked
Ominously across the spotless tiled floor
“Don’t get lost in here”
He warned
The room was small and
It felt like it was getting smaller by the second
I began worrying
When thinking about what object I should use for this assignment, I was listening to music on my speaker to try to stimulate my creativity. However, like it usually tends to happen, I got distracted by the music and just stopped focusing on the assignment at hand. About half an hour had passed before I […]
Read moreThis assignment was really interesting to me. For example, my actual notes for this one class period took up more than 2 pages of notebook pages, but the sketch for it comfortably took up one page. I also felt like the majority of my energy on this assignment was used on planning how to organize the […]
Read moreThis composition was very difficult to write. Aside from the time I submitted the page(about 15 mins before the deadline), I had a lot of trouble coming up with material to write about during the process of trying to write it. However, I think it worked out as I created a page that I think […]
Read moreHi, my name is Matthew Shu and this is my avatar. I spent almost an entire week thinking and mulling over what I should have as my avatar, a badge that is supposed to represent me authentically and completely. After all that time, I came up with… just a picture. As you can(or can’t) tell […]
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