Witch Face

Illustrator is definitely not like drawing in a sketch book…It’s going to take some getting used to for sure.

Dracula

Deep Remix: “There Is No Such Thing As Killer Whales”

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Tie dye castle.

(I accidentally merged my layers, I didn’t know you wanted to see those – sorry about that…it’s an old habit I’ll work on.)

I feel like every time I use photoshop in this class, I am introduced to multiple new tools/tricks. Before this class, I knew the basics of photoshop, but I’m excited to become familiar with the ins and outs of this program and what it’s capable of.

In class work 10/5

Castle Image Edit

Response to “Blood in the Gutter” by Scott Mccloud

This text was somewhat confusing for me. I think it was probably one of the first times I’ve ever read a comic like style of book/story. Well aside from like the comics in a Sunday morning paper when I was kid. I really enjoyed the author’s use of the sketch to coincide with the text in a creative way. Like on the first page, when the boy says “unless I was present to see things, they just – Cease to exist.” (pg 135)  Here there is a dash in the middle of the sentence as well as the sketch just ceases to exist all together until you get to the next panel. When reading a comic, you’re eyes are following both the words and the pictures, so I really liked the author’s creative spin on that. This story goes on to discuss the idea that our perception of the world the is sort of based on what we see and we sort of put two and two together after that. We just have faith from what’s been shown to us. But is it always right? Like, what we see is not always what is to be true. And with that being said, I think I’ll end this response with a really good quote from Scott on (pg 161) He says “Readers faced with panels like these will have substantially different interpretations.” But I think that is the beauty of art, we can perceive it however we like.