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Web Comic Demo 2
Don’t insert your comic as one big image, but insert as separate rows (one jpg file for each row). This way, the viewer can click to see each row at a bigger size (as long as Link to: Media File … Continue reading
Web Comic Demo 1
If you insert each frame individually, it will be hard to control positioning. See what happens when you resize your browser window, or look at on a small screen, like a phone (This WordPress template is not responsive, so the … Continue reading
Point, Line, Plane: Sample Post by Kristin Becker
I think it’s fascinating how the same component of a composition can function as point, line, or plane, depending on how it is pictured, including how it is framed by the camera and how it relates to other compositional elements. … Continue reading
Point, Line, Plane – Sample Post by Kristin Becker
I feel this poster is balanced because my eye moves through the composition without getting stuck: The bold title of the poster at mid-line (ITC Officiana) functions as both a point and a line. It functions as a point because … Continue reading
Figure / Ground and Framing – Sample Post by Kristin Becker
This band poster is an example of how the figure-ground relationship can be reversible, and therefore extremely dynamic. In some parts of the composition, the white areas read as ground, background, or negative space and the black areas read as legible … Continue reading
Formstorming: Kristin Becker (Sample Post)
In the first fifty pages of her graphic novel, What It Is, Lynda Barry asks questions like “What is an image?” and “Where are images found?” She seems self-conscious about her ability to create successful images as an adult artist, and … Continue reading
Framing: Kristin Becker (Sample Post)
This spread from the graphic novel “Goodbye, Chunky Rice” by Craig Thompson shows many of the powerful and complex design options offered by the concept of framing: The individual parts of the comic strip are each frames, and some of … Continue reading
Color: Kristin Becker (Sample Post)
This page from graphic novelist Chris Ware’s book, “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth” is an excellent example of the interaction of fully saturated color with very desaturated color. The colors used in the backgrounds and buildings of each … Continue reading
Texture: Sample Post Kristin Becker
In “Graphic Design: The New Basics,” the authors make a distinction between virtual texture and physical texture. Virtual texture is the “optical appearance of a surface:” As a viewer, we can learn something about an object or image without actually having … Continue reading
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