Five on your six.

More response to readings.

Chapter five, line quality.

This was pretty straight forward to me.

I read many webcomcis everyday and each day I get to see a creator use lines to convey whatever meaning they seek to.

Each style is indicative of something.

Some more successful than others, but you get the idea.

The many examples of different line quality, that run right along side the text, help emphasis the range of emotions you can get.

And all through sight. Crazy.

My drawing teacher, back at moorpark, always told us that line quality is one of the deciding factors in how your drawings turn out.

Most of all, he emphasized varied line quality (in that the lines changed and breathed as they moved along the page.)

It's neat to see it explained in detail.

As for chapter six.

Storytelling.

Or how to do the "show and tell" that comics, pictures and anything that is told through sight really, does.

The various styles listed were familiar.

I'm glad I have names to put them to now.

Word specific, Picture specific, Duo specific, Additive, Parallel, Montage and Interdependent.

All that.

It's nice to put a name to a face.

Metaphorically.

Here are some interesting examples to contrast.

Comic wise.

Dominic Deegan

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Sinfest

All safe fer work.

Have fun.

Hope you don't mind loosing an afternoon.


And that's it.

Put some jelly on that hot god.

Comics.

I like them. Especially web comics. For their accessibility and funny features.

Especially this one: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6

Read this and be better off for it.

Note: It is long. And read the previous adventure too for even more distilled badasserawesomery.

Onto the readings.


I like how this bookcomic is organized.

It is a good read.

The term sequential art is an interesting label for them.

Incidentally, I also read a webcomic called: http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1

Also very funny.

And long.

(This blog bears no responsibility for lost afternoons due to aforementioned links.)


But something that is not long is the assigned reading that I keep getting away from

Focus time.

Really.

HOLYSHITASQUIRRELGOTTACHASEITGOTTACHASEITGOTTA-

Ahem.




I've been reading a large number of web comics for a while now. I'm pretty familiar with the space = time aspect of their use. Webcomics, interestingly enough, reintroduce the time aspect. Due to their daily, semi daily, etc etc schedule of updating.

Reading about ancient examples of comics (Bayeux tapestry, egyptian painting, greek painting, japanese scrolls, etc etc.) was also quite stimulating.

I hope the debate continuqes for as long as it can.

I like debates.

And I know human beings are stubborn as fuck, so it won't end for a long time.

Yay!

Second chapter was equally interesting, discussing icons (along similar veins that the first 7A lecture traversed.)

I like the concept of how abstraction leads to amplification of meaning.

Makes sense to me.

B|


The map of comics is also fun to see where different comics arrange themselves in the huge arse world of comic-ery.

The atoms > molecules > life metaphor also was very poetic. But that is just the sciency part of me speaking.


We sure are selfish fucks aren't we?

Yeah.

But we're our selfish fucks.

:3


And that's it.