The Secret Language of Comics: Visual Thinking and Writing

Sketch 12: Writing is a Milkshake

Writing consists of many steps and stages just like how a strawberry milkshake consists of many ingredients in order for it to be good. My sketch shows the different components of my writing process in the form of a milkshake because writing cannot be good with just one aspect. I have to blend and mix […]

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Literacy Narrative Reflection

In the process of making this Literacy Narrative Project, I have gained many skills as a writer and an artist, and I have discovered things about myself that I never thought about before. My final draft has been through a lot of work. I have revised my alphabetical narrative and my comic many times. My […]

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How Come Santa is portrayed as the bad guy?

While reading Climate Change, I had noticed that Santa Claus appeared many times throughout the book. I even wondered to myself why Santa was appearing randomly in a book about climatic issue such as global warming. Why would Squarzoni include pictures of Santa in such a serious book? Even though I asked myself these questions while reading […]

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Comparison Essay Reflection

While writing this essay, I encountered many struggles which is why I have two drafts of my comparison essay on Stitches and Spinning. This is because after writing my first draft, I realized that I was scared to write what I was actually thinking, and this made my argument weak. While writing this essay the first go […]

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FRIENDS

  This was my attempt to recreate a scene from the popular 90s TV show, “Friends.” I chose this scene because I wanted to do something that involved my friends. This scene was pretty difficult to mimic because it was hard to get the same background, couch, and other props. However, we were able to […]

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Sketch 9: Data Viz

My goal for this sketch was to find out and track my overall-well being. College is a whole new world. In college, academics is more challenging, being away from home and family is tough, and being in a new community is also sometimes difficult. College requires many new things to get accustomed too, especially as […]

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Melting Tower of Pisa!

This was by far the hardest sketch yet. The formatting and editing was not hard at all, but coming up with a creative idea was very difficult for me. It took me three hours to finally produce a creative and workable combophoto. I went through many ideas before I finally came up with this one. […]

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Falling through College!

When I was trying to figure out a funny comic to do on a true story of myself, the most recent funny memory popped up in my mind. Just last Wednesday, my heavy book bag knocked me over out of no where! I thought to my self that this could be the perfect comic for […]

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