The Secret Language of Comics: Visual Thinking and Writing

Heart of Gold

I’ll be honest, the assignment to create an actual little comic for this class was undeniably intimidating. Usually on Sundays we’ll have sketches, which I think you agree is a word that carries a lot less pressure. On a sketch, you can make mistakes; it’s a creative process  that can go in just about any direction. For this week’s Triptych, we had frames and words, and it looked a lot more like a finished product. … Continue reading Heart of Gold

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Seeing Lights

For this Sunday Sketch, I wanted to try out something different from my usual style. I opted for a lighthearted plot and easy shading/coloring. I haven’t done a digital art project like this in a loooong while, so this was very fun to draw. As for the coloring itself, I wanted it to be more “soft”… Continue Reading →

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First Glance

At first, I did not have any ideas of what to include on my triptych. The first time I tried thinking of ideas, I was not productive for twenty minutes and then I gave up. I was thinking of drawing a comic but I did not have a clue of what to draw. When I […]

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Sunday Sketch 5

  I 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…

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Sketch 5: Triptych

When  I first started thinking about this sketch, the hardest thing for me was to come up with an idea. It was hard to come up with a narrative that told a story through three panels only. However, I knew that I wanted my triptych to be something that represented me, so I decided to […]

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Dead Inside…

“The funniest amongst us are usually the ones who are … Dead Inside …” Reflecting on my work, this is one of the sketch assignments that took me quite a while to figure out, but was most fun to explore. I started to think about three-paneled comic strips that I’d seen before. I’ve always had […]

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