My literature class is called “The Graphic Novel” and the final has two options: 12-page term paper or a 5-page comic book that you create. I opted for the comic book, and the five-pages in a minimum (thank heavens).
I’ve been told stick figures are not acceptable, which rules out my entire repertoire of cartooning. My way around this is to make a comic book that features no people. I’m pursuing graphic medicine with my final project and writing/drawing my own synesthesias and aphantasia.
I had been stuck on the outlining phase and script writing and today abandoned all of that and just began drafting layouts. Remediation is exactly as hard as I thought it would be but it’s still going well.
Some things I have randomly decided to do with my comic book:
Keep most panel backgrounds as pitch black to represent my aphantasia
On pages where the panels are white, the gutters will be pitch black
Panels will vary in size and shape, so they aren’t all boxes or rectangles
Most drawings will be abstract
Calligraphy is key since I have to represent graphemes and a lot of words
Some pages will have no clear panelization or gutters
It will be mixed media: Staedtler fineliners, colored pencils, markers, gel pens, sharpies, paint, graphite, pens, and highlighters will all be used
I’ve decided to publish this if able and make a series out of it, next in the series will be my learning disabilities—because I think visually representing them makes them easier to grasp than verbally trying to explain them
That’s where I’m at right now. I’m still drafting the layout of page 1/5 but I’m feeling very confident.
Synesthesia something something, but Izzy Hands is dark gray, Ed is slate blue, Stede is peachy pink, Jim is oxblood, Oluwande is aqua, the Swede is lemon yellow, Buttons is taupe, Lucius is blood orange*, Black Pete is algae green, Frenchie is mallard green, Roach is wine purple, Wee John is yellow ochre
musical Synesthesia is harder to explain than just (in my case) seeing colors in music, especially when a new song takes me by surprise like this one did. but i can always try..
“And the One sitting on the throne said, ‘Look, I am making everything new!’” (Revelation 21:5)
An exploration of sound to colour - the evocation of colour, shape and movement in response to sound - musical mark-making
Some images, abstract musical illustrations based on my own experience of listening to certain pieces of music.
Black Sails ~ Good Time Girl ~ Rhiannon ~ All Along The Watchtower ~ Take A Byte
Never stopped making but did stop posting (other than pumpkins! ) The notion has come upon me again to share some stuff I’ve been up to, a digital record of my personal, analogue pursuits
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” - Wassily Kandinsky
Oh look, it’s another one of those things that I always get really confused about but that other people don’t seem to have any problem with.
Golfer and Tennis elbow. I have to think about tennis players generally swinging their racket quite laterally, while golfers generally stay in a more medial line. I don’t really play either, so this might not be 100% true, but it works for me! The medial and lateral colour coding is purely for the benefit of my personal synaesthetic tendencies, so don’t worry about them.
