Category Archives: Fall 2019 Archive (201 Blog)

Design elements and principles are crucial for the foundation of comics or really any art.  In our class reading “Understanding Comics” written by Scott McCloud shows a good use of examples on how those elements are used. I chose a … Continue reading →

One principle that is effective on page 47 of “Understanding Comics” is the principle of repetition with variation. The top and middle panels are repetitive because Scott McCloud is in the same position in each panel only there are a … Continue reading →

After reading John Lovett’s “Design Overview”, I found many illustrations from Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics” that do represent a significant amount of Lovett’s terms he went over. McCloud seems as if much of his drawing in this novel are hand … Continue reading →

In “Understanding Comics”, Scott McCloud does an excellent job of incorporating the different elements and principles of design seen in John Lovett’s Design Overview. There are so many pages where several of these principles are being used. On pages 118 … Continue reading →

Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics” page 45 can be analysed in 3 ways that I find interesting. Firstly McCloud uses direction in his first panel on the page. He does this by having himself depicted standing on top of a globe-like … Continue reading →

Beginning in chapter one of Scott McCloud’s novel, we are introduced to the broad scope of comics we recognize that are depicted on panels of an enormous globe. As McCloud brings into question what exactly a comic is, in a … Continue reading →

The layout of this page of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics is an effective design specifically in shape, value, and size. My initial impression of the page is that is very balanced, especially in terms of the icon placements. The locations of … Continue reading →