Project C: Final

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For this project I created a comic using one of the characters I had developed for project B.  The story behind this comic was about socks and how they go missing or you lose a pair when you are washing and drying your clothes. In this story Jared is the main character he is a 23 year old guy who is addicted to socks. He lives a pretty mundane life but at night when he cant sleep he goes into the laundry matt of his building and steels all the socks but there are times where he just enjoys taking one pair only.

This comic consists of 4 pages on the first page we have a dryer machine, in the second page we have a profile of jared and what he looks life. On the 3rd page we have a small story of Jared’s life this page was set up in a way  that text wasnt needed. This third page is the most important one since it tells you more about the story and what happens. This page was influenced by Chris Wares style. His style complicated but his comics are easy to understand and appealing to the eye. In my comic when you connect all the pages of the comic it tells you the story without using any words so that in a way you also have to figure out the mystery of who that person is behind  the window shadow. Also try to figure out if the dryer eats the socks or if there is something else out there.

 

Project B: Character Development

Jared is a 23 year old boy who has ADHD which pretty much is a hyperactivity disorder and cant stay still.  He always looks awake and high on sugar or caffeine. Jared lives a pretty normal life but the only problem that goes around where  he lives is missing socks. People wash their clothes and always end up missing a pair of socks. Jared  has a couple of problems but his mayor addiction are socks. Every night Jared walks into peoples houses and takes either a pair of socks or just one of them. He has causes lots of problems because people dont understand where their socks are disappearing to.

Olga: She is the craziest old lady alive. She has fake teeth, gas problems, usually is doing things that are not age related to her and always falls asleep when people talk to her.

 

Project A: Space and Time

Space: For this project I studied my bathroom and decided to show how I perceive and view my bathroom by making close ups of certain areas. The main image is an over all look of what the bathroom looks like and to the sides of it  show closer captions of the bathroom to show the views from the “Throne”. I called it  ”The Throne” because even though it sounds comical a lot of us spend a lot of time in the bathroom so its a dirty throne.

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Time: For this mundane project I decided to do my daily routine of me  deciding and putting my shoes on. On this comic strip time passes by from the moment I  decided what shoes ill ware until I am ready to leave. During this mundane  routine my head wonders off into other things  rather than thinking about my shoes.

SHoes

 

Illustration: Narrative Structures

Chris ware’s comic is about a boy dreaming about the future and some day being a pilot and getting married to his landlords daughter, when suddenly his brother wakes him up by letting him know that his mother is going to kill him if he is late again. Chris Ware plays around with the space in this comic. He has an actual enlarged image of the setting and around that main point he draws smaller boxes and bubbles being followed by arrows directing your eye through the page. This technique allows the reader to understand what it happening in a playful ways.  Some of the bubbles and boxes are as simple as a close up to show the expression on a characters face or to show time from one bubble to another one. The technique that I most enjoy from him is how everything is so easy to understand. The way he uses the background as a main started and from that he takes out smaller details and enlarges them.

 

BoMbInG tHe StReeTs (Project 4)

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Photographic Series

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