Category Archives: Sample Posts by Students

  Color plays an important role in every aspect of our lives. I found a good example of an image that incorporates a lot of color. This is an image I took at a park about four years ago of … Continue reading →

Linda Barry uses texture in several different ways on this page, both in the literal sense, where if we had the original picture we could feel it, and in implied texture, where it wouldn’t have a noticeable physical difference, but … Continue reading →

  Color can show a lot about any image. it can be used to guide the reader’s eye, it can be used to set a focus point in the image, or it can be used to tell a story. In … Continue reading →

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 →

In their book, Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips discuss how color can set a mood or environment in a graphic novel or can simply make one object stand out more than another. Lynda Barry uses different hues … Continue reading →

In their book, Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips discuss the close relationship between time and motion and how those two connect particularly in graphic design and comic books. They are closely related because motion is the passing or … Continue reading →

  In the book “Graphic Design The New Basics” by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips time and motion are defined as being closely related. It’s any word or image that move functions both spatially and temporally. In page 171 … Continue reading →

When talking about time and motion, this image stood out to me. The way this particular comic shows how time is moving and the way motion is implied is very interesting. With the work consisting of static drawings and frames, … Continue reading →

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 →