Category Archives: 201 Blog

My creative motivation for this project was “characterization,” rather than storytelling, which was most likely sprouted from me majoring in creative writing. Characterization involves more than how one appears in a writing piece, but also includes their interests, response, and … Continue reading →

Motivations I really wanted to create a collage similar to Lynda Barry’s style and her book. I loved the idea of having a variety of items just placed together with what seems to be no direction. I had a colorful … Continue reading →

I wanted to juxtapose the images of my sketches with designs that contain color. The sketches are people or characters, while the colored layers are backgrounds, places, and objects. The sketches were done with pencil and and black and white … Continue reading →

My creative motivation was based on the idea that we learned about in class. While looking through Lynda Barry’s style of comics I was inspired by her work. According to McCloud, the definition of a comic is “juxtaposed pictorial and … Continue reading →

The first thing that I did when preparing for this assignment was to make sure that all of the items that I was going to scan had some sort of theme or meaning to me. In doing this, I ended … Continue reading →

The information I hope viewers will take away from my work is an aesthetic response to the textures in my image and the pictures I used. I purposefully added three different types of drawings I did, including my sketches on … Continue reading →

My digital collage fits into McClouds definition in the aesthetic response category, and less of the story telling part of the definition. I attempted to bring together a mix of busy textures and painted patterns that blend and relate to … Continue reading →

This project was very dear to me. This collage comic is meant to express the anger and darkness that last semester possessed compared to this semester and how I am focusing upon myself. I believe that my comic falls under … Continue reading →

For my comic I chose to put items together in which were parts of my college experience so far. I believe my collage comic fits into Scott McCloud’s description of what a comic is because though my work I am … Continue reading →

My creative motivations were things that I enjoyed and some things in my life. I wanted my comic to have a simplistic look but at the same time have a texture look to it. The way my comic fits into McCloud’s definition of what comics are is … Continue reading →