The Secret Language of Comics: Visual Thinking and Writing
ENG101.04 Fall 2018
Writing can be a lot of fun sometimes. There are no rules as to what you can put down on a page, literally anything can happen. It’s just you, the laptop, the blank screen, and twenty six letters, prepared to test the limits of your imagination.
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Read moreThe best possible representation of my process as a writer could be nothing short of a small mess. It starts with every intention of making sense, as you can see with the center image, the first sketch I made for this class, and seems to progress with …
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Read moreI may or may not have spent far too much time on this assignment. The seconds tick away with all too much frequency when you’re hunched over a project like this one. It was, however, admittedly amazing. First there came remembering this moment, t…
Read moreConfession time: I am not great at photo editing. As challenging as past sketches may have been, they were usually sketches, I got to actually use my hands and trace the shapes myself. Combining two pictures may have seemed easier at first glanc…
Read moreTelling a true story didn’t seem like a very difficult thing to do, I have over eighteen years of experiences to draw from.
…which I instantly forgot the moment I sat down to draw.
Seeing as my entire life was useless in terms of material for this…
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