Perfect Example by John Porcellino Page 11

From these pages in the comic book “Perfect Example” my eyes move left to right starting at the top left hand corner to the bottom right hand corner. I feel as if this is the typical way Americans make comics easy to read. I liked this example because of its simplicity. There are eight squares on each page usually which make this comic an easy read. The background is brown so I can get a sense of what is and is not dark in the picture or what the illustrator is trying to make me focus on, which would be the words in brown and the people and images in white. This technique can function as a point because it draws the eye and is surrounded by so much white space (negative space).  A line is an infinite series of points, used in these pages to show emotion on characters from swirls and straight lines. The use of lines in this comic also is seen to outline focal points: cars, houses, speech, characters, city skylines etc. I think that this is a unique way to describe something with only two colors (white and brown). Here, a point is used to create space in the ground and facial expressions. One point is a persons pupil and multiple points represent grass on the sidewalk. A much larger example would be the tires on a car. A point marks a position in space and can express its own identity or melt into the crowd, thus creating texture (like the grass). I noticed planes twice on this example of the comic I read and that was when showing a bush, the gas from a car and the city skyline. A plane is a flat surface extending in height and width or a path of a moving line.