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Final Web Comic: Peter Dowell

Here is the link to the comic: http://pdowell.com/web-comic/ For my web comic I wanted to make a choose your own adventure type of comic for the project. I wanted to do this because it would add some interactivity to the … Continue reading

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Graphic Novel Review: Peter Dowell

The graphic novel that I chose to read for October was Bone: Out From Boneville By Jeff Smith. I chose to do this graphic novel because I really like how the characters look and the style as well. The story starts … Continue reading

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Final Poster Comic: Peter Dowell

The creative process that I took when I made this comic was to sketch it out first and then make the images in illustrator. I saw that the date that the project was due was Halloween so I wanted to … Continue reading

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Individual Voices: Peter Dowell

The comic that I decided to do was STICK GUY. I chose this particular comic because it did a lot of interesting things with a simple character. The simple character is only a stick figure with a top hat which … Continue reading

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Invisible Emotion: Peter Dowell

The example that I chose for line quality is seen in the Zap Comics #8 where there is a skinny strange alien with no eyes that is talking to a bunch of military admirals about war that is going to … Continue reading

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Closure and Time Frames: Peter Dowell

The comic book that I chose to look through was Patrick McDonnell’s, Call of the Wild: A MUTTS Comic Strip Treasury. I chose to read this because the art style looked interesting to me and I think the characters look fun … Continue reading

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Final Digital Comics Collage: Peter Dowell

I didn’t really know how to go about making this comic when I first heard about the project, actually I was kind of intimidated by it. I have used Photoshop before and I do have a basic understanding of it, … Continue reading

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Design Elements and Principles: Peter Dowell

The page that I am going to review is page 31 of Scott McCloud’s book Understanding Comics. The first principle that stood out to me when I was reviewing the page was the repetition that Scott McCloud uses to reference … Continue reading

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Physical to Virtual Peter Dowell

The materials I brought in for the first day were a sun hat, a Taco Bell gift card and a pair of swimming goggles. I chose these items because I liked the way that they looked and they had somewhat … Continue reading

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Print Versus Digital Comic

I created two comics, one I drew by hand, and the other I used MS paint to draw my comic. My first comic is the hand drawn comic where I had someone saying they murdered somebody in an argument. The … Continue reading

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