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Archives Visit: Jasmin Negrete

During our visit to the Manuscript, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) I was able to look at a lot of different comic styles that could inspire my design for my poster comic. Throughout this collection of comic books there was a … Continue reading

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Hierarchy: Jasmin Negrete

The story I plan to tell through my poster comic is the story of me growing up and going off to college. While doing the Writing the Unthinkable exercise I noticed that I was writing a lot about the memories … Continue reading

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Layers: Jasmin Negrete

Throughout Lynda Barry’s graphic novel What It Is there you can see many different forms of layers. On page 48 of her graphic novel you can see the form of layering known as Cut and Paste. Throughout this page you can … Continue reading

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Texture: Jasmin Negrete

According to  Ellen Lupton and Jennifer C. Phillips in their book Graphic Design: The New Basics, Textures are both physical and virtual design elements that contain a visual function (pg 69). Texture can be used to add meaning to a design … Continue reading

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Color: Jasmin Negrete

In Chris Ware’s graphic novel, “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth” there are many  different examples of how multiple colors interact with on anther. On this specific page, you can see the contrast between the gloomy gray color and the … Continue reading

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Time & Motion: Jasmin Negrete

In “Graphic Design: The New Basic”, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer C. Phillips discuss the concept of Time and Motion, and how a still image can have implied motion. In their novel they state,”Motion can be implied as well as literal…Artists … Continue reading

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Scale: Jasmin Negrete

According to Ellen Lupton and Jennifer C. Phillips, in their book Graphic Design:The New Basic, the term scale can be used both objectively or subjectively. When a scale is  objective, this is referring to the physical dimensions of an object compared … Continue reading

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Framing: Jasmin Negrete

In the first page of Richard Sala’s comic, “Strange Question” the author uses various forms of framing. There are five different frames throughout this page that each frame a certain point of the story. Each of these frames are outlined … Continue reading

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Point, Line, Plane: Jasmin Negrete

  One of the graphic novel that I was able to look through and that really caught my attention on Tuesday’s class was Barefoot Gen vol 1, by Keiji Nakazawa. While glancing through this graphic novel one can see that there … Continue reading

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Formstorming: Jasmin Negrete

Through the first fifty pages of her novel, What It Is, Lynda Barry discusses many questions she has about images. From “Where are images found?” to “What is and Where is your imagination?”.In the first few pages of her graphic novel, … Continue reading

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