The Secret Language of Comics: Visual Thinking and Writing
ENG101.04 Fall 2018
Niemann’s sketches caught my attention instantly, and this is easily the sketch I’ve been most excited about. That is, until I sat at my desk and tried to make a Sunday Sketch of my own.
I had nothing.… Continue reading A Cat-astrophicly Cheesy Title
Read moreIt was around 10:30PM. On my way back to Alabama Hall, I saw leaves falling from the trees around the building. A bundle of leaves pirouetted down a spiral of breeze, spinning and jumping through the air like a ballerina. They landed lightly on the ground next to my feet. I reached down and […]
Read moreWhenever I was thinking of ideas for my Sunday Sketch, the first thing that came to mind is drawing a soccer player kicking a 3-dimensional ball. When I looked at the sketches, however, that was one of the ones Christoph Niemann had already drawn. I had a bunch of change in my bag and the […]
Read moreMy fascination with mummies is something that most people don’t know about me. I can never explain to a person why I have such an interest in preserved dead bodies, but I just do! I like to think that I am very knowledgeable about the history of mummies, and all of the movies and TV … Continue reading Mummies Can Be Intellectual →
Read moreEarly this week in my chemistry class I noticed that the battery level on my calculator was running low. I rarely use it throughout the week so after the class I completely forgot about swapping the dying batteries out. It was not until I brainstormed ideas for this sketch that I realized how I could … Continue reading I Have to Replace my Batteries in my Calculator →
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 moreSunday Sketches was very interesting and amusing to me. When I first looked at Christoph Riemann’s worked, I was awed. He was able to use simple, everyday objects and make them into cool sketches. At first I was a little scared. I thought to myself, “There is no way I can make something so cool […]
Read moreAfter walking back from the DUC-ling to my dorm room, I was greeted by the Student Programming Council and given a bottle of coke. As I opened it up and sipped on the warm coco-cola, I instantly came up with what I would do for my Sunday Sketch. I would make the bottle into a… Continue reading CocaScope
Read moreFor my Sunday Sketch, I decided that I wanted to use an object that I use everyday. As I walked back to my dorm I twisted my key around my wrist and realized that a key would be a pretty good object to try to use. I use my dorm key everyday and never […]
Read moreDon’t feed the Ali-gator! Our third sketch assignment involves making our own ‘Sunday Sketches’. Originating from the works of famous illustrator, artist and author Christoph Niemann, these kinds of sketches take a 3-D representation of an object and an associated context in 2-D. As is depicted, my Sunday Sketch is of an ‘ALI-gator’. Presenting a […]
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