Focusing in on Progress

Right now, politically, internally, the nation is thinking negatively and about what is wrong with the world at the moment.

In class, let's focus on the progress.



Ronnie, DuJuan, Sigi (Am I getting everyone?) are working are employing iconic drawing; the subject matter of the illustrations are from the script they have created.

Scripts push drawers to draw things they're not used to; like bears. Human-bear hybrids.

Believe it or not, we're about half way done with December. This means projects should be about 1/4th done. I'm expecting everyone, in groups, to have 10-15 pages. Don't wait till the last minute.

Think about

ECONOMY

How are you going to finish this project?

Drawing:

Drawings can be stylized and iconic. Most manga is; And with pencil, everything can be edited.
Here is an example of a one page cartoon I produced in an iconic style. It was published in a children's magazine, "Moo-Cow Fanclub". The two main characters are simply a square and a circle. The story is told action-to-action; there are not long periods of time in which time changes between panels.

You can produce 10-15 page 1 page manga! 15 pages of simple drawings that tell a narrative story extremely well are accepted and celebrated.

Drawing figuratively, while I will not discourage it, is very difficult. With each panel, attempt to focus on WHAT is IMPORTANT. Narrate what is significant and then go into detail. Lyndell does this very well in his "item" panels.

STORY

Nygel, working with Danilo, had a breakthrough in writing by asking the "why" question.

Danilo had created tons of characters, some evil, some good. Nygel asked "why" a character was evil.

With our characters we created with our first zine, attempt to ask "why" characters are the way they are. For instance, Denisse's hobo- why do people become hobos? The easy answer would be drug addiction, but why do people turn to drugs? Continuously asking these questions will develop characters and stories are told.

Today I have brought in the light table again for people to practice and do artist copies. I'd also like to take writing from previous classes and attempt to either fictionalize stories or go into depth with them.