Digital Definitions: Comic Life Project (Blog 5)

I just completed my Comic Life project and I want to share a few thoughts I had on it. I aimed to make it something simple, fun and I really wanted to focus on imagery as much as possible, even it if it risked compromising an in-depth story line. Admittedly, a comic book story about hero cats and an evil dog is about as simple as you get, but again, I believe that it gave me the best opportunity to use simple, cute, clear cut images. I tried to apply the most basic principle of design (contrast, type, etc.) to the project. I found this difficult at times. One of the reasons that I believe I found it difficult is I never was a comic book reader, even as a kid. It's interesting because even though almost all of the projects I have worked on this semester brought to light new techniques, theories, software, etc., they were all bases on mediums that I had some familiarity with. Even if you do the research on a particular medium, if you haven't taken in the medium, or even utilized it in the most passing manner, trying to design it can prove quite difficult because because you don't have that mental portfolio in which to draw upon.

There is no question that comics have had wide influence over creative culture; today, I believe that there is a comic renaissance occurring. The following video is one such example of that. Here are two visual artists discussing how comics have effected their art and now, how their other artistic training has effected their comic illustrations.