GROUP HALL WAY DICE ROLL MANGA

Most of you are involved with dice roll group projects. If you're not moving a story along, decorate and finish previous panels with cross hatching, color and added backgrounds. Once the concept of the story is created, the drawing can be fully utilized.

You're receiving five panel manga strips at the beginning of this class. Underneath the panels please write the Will Eisner story structure.

* Settings:

- the park
- the mall
- the movie theater
- A hotel
- A residential apartment
- A coffee shop
- Deep in the woods, late at night
- A club
- The bottom of the ocean
- The distant past
- On top of a mountain
- The rain forest
- The laundry mat
- A police station
- Outer Space
- In a cave
- Madagascar
- At a race track
- A Basketball court

Problems -

1. Romantic Nature
2. Life-Threatening Nature
3. Rivalry
4. An act of vengeance
5. Jealousy
6. An epic act of nature
7. The bending of time/space

Dealing with problem -

Your job

Solution -

Your job

End -

heads - happy ending
tails - sad ending

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On an unrelated note, people need to broaden their definitions of what "good drawing" and "good art" is. Certain students are falling into the "if it doesn't look exactly like Avatar: The Last Airbender" it isn't worth anything and it isn't worth your time. This is silly, everyone's hand is distinct, everyone has a certain style that is unique to them. There is no point to mindlessly attempting to make your drawings look exactly like somebody else's. Sure, doing an artist copy is a good exercise, but no matter how hard you try, it is impossible to make an exact duplicate. Your style is developed over time, through endless drawing and gradually perfected.

In the meantime, value your own work by how you present specific artistic principles.

EXAMPLE 1: GOOD COMPOSITION


It is appropriate to review. Here is a drawing DuJuan made last semester. While the figures in them are not figurative, rather iconic, the composition of the entire drawing is stellar.

If we break the paper into a grid, we notice that each area is drawn upon to varying degrees depending on significance. The weapon is placed in the center square giving it significance.

A drawer like DAMION can learn from this drawing. While Damion can render action heroes and environments well, I have YET TO SEE HIM FILL ONE PAGE OF MANGA!!! You must consider the entire page, and DESIGN the page! It is not enough to do good figure drawings.

If you're working in a group, continue to do so. If you're not actively working on a group wall drawing, please do a 5 step dice roll manga.