Small Work: Three Panel Comic

Narrative: small work

In-Depth: Landscape

Reading: What is Comics Poetry?

  I thought it was interesting when Rothman said that the earliest form of poem's came from oral traditions. It's quite obvious, but I just never thought about it in that way, and it make's a lot of sense. I also agree with Rothman's way of "defining" comics, which he said was "The form as one that uses images the way other kinds of writing use words". The reason I think that people understand comics almost intuitively, is because its made up of elements and sounds that they probably hear in their everyday lives. For example, when a comic artist writes "vroom" under a car you instinctually know that its the sound the car is making. Rothman described this a the comic artist creating a visual language, I never thought of it that way and it totally makes sense.

  Rothman talks about the different components that do into making creative decisions and how that will impact the reaction of the person that is reading. Briefly he talks about  the difference a black and white comic can be to a colored comic. I personally think that color is more appealing to look at. Howeve black and white, if used in a beautiful way, can be just as appealing. For example I will use two comics I I have at my home. One is and American comic, "harley quinn issue 1". This is a fully colored comic and is obvious how much time has been poured into it. also it is absolutely beautiful to look through. My other comic example is a Japanese comic, "One Piece vol. 1". This comic is black and white but is also very beautiful to look at. The black and white images leave for a lot of imagination for the reader. Overall, Rothman made a lot of points that I had not thought about before.

Landscape: Small Work #2

So, these are 'paper cut-out's'.

My process was (1)drawing out the figure on bristol board, (2)inking the drawing, (3)Stippling the outline to bring out the form, (4)coloring in the inked illustration with Prismacolor Markers, (5)cut out the illustration with an X-Acto Knife, and finally (6)add the backing.