Thesis 2 Crit 2

Today we had critique with a guest professor Benjamin Critton since Gerry was taking care of the MFA students.

Main comment from Prof. Critton was to think of presenting my comics outside the form of a comic book. How can it exist?, possibly large vinyl prints on the wall... Also maybe instead of making a series of 3 books, try focusing on 1 book-- quality vs. quantity.

• draft out your drawings, might take multiple versions to get the right look
  
• work on a title
• make the cover interesting, not a generic cover with drawings, maybe use typography
  
• a sitting area ==> lots of copies to hand out
• match up the line art & color: either both by hand or both rendered in the computer
• use special moments for stories that leave something with the reader
• smaller size product
• look at Julia Born "Title of Show" (?)

Typography didn't come up since the text in the drafts I showed were handwritten. I will do some explorations with made type and my own hand writing.

I thought of making a series so that there is a diversity of stories and the reader can have a better understanding of my character, but if 1 book speaks better than 3, than I would go with the single book route.

As for the content, I'm not sure how much or what to share with people. I'm pretty private to begin with so this is a challenge for myself already. I guess I can share people's opinion of me and my outlook in turn?

For now: I will draft stories with potential, work on the type, make a title, & start a cover design.

2012 Crit #1

I have been placed in the second show. Currently, my thesis is a series of short comics. The stories are from my life that I want to share in comic format, since I am not a vocal kind of person. I wanted to present the comics as a few booklets and some singles mounted on the wall. I think this will be a great project to put myself out there in my artwork. I was a little worried if I could get my idea passed since most professors don't read comics and its not a typical format a design student would use in a fine arts exhibition show but its been received alright.

Crit from Design:

• flesh out the style by adding shading and tone to the characters
• try a variety of panel and word bubble styles
• make the text handwritten instead of typed - more personal
• either have tight fixed spacing or go all random between panels
• work on the title
  

Crit from Thesis:

• i have a lot of work to do...
• make sure to establish style, avoid anime style (I don't think it looks like it so much... simplified but I guess its associated to asian styles)
  
• it shows a intimate & personal side
  
• the stories are relatable
  
• in the gallery: make a reading space for people with chairs and such, make a large print of my character on the wall (possibly)
  
• Make sure books are fixed in some way, possibility of stealing ( how do you tie it down but still allow viewers to read from them? chains? fish line? "place here"?)
  

It seems a lot of the design students are having some sort of electronic medium versus on paper. There is also a lot of interactive aspects as well. Everyone's projects sound great and challenging. I think we will have a great exhibition show!