Packaged Narrative In-Depth Project

    For my zines I also created a package and 3 sculptures to go with it, my package is a large plush unicorn. The plush unicorn is the fist time I ever sewed anything this large. I hand sewed the unicorn along with the three hand held objects, it took some time but I was able to do it. For the large unicorn I designed a pattern to go off on and once I cut it all out I sewed it together. My goal was to make this unicorn adorable so that it would contrast with the zine. My three objects were a heart pocket that held the zines, intestines and a detachable unicorn horn. I wanted the insides to look almost real so that when you unzip the unicorn you would be surprised. I love unicorns and that was my reason for the heart pocket, to hold the unicorn zines.
   I was glad to see a lot of people interacting with my unicorn, they held or hugged it. Some students were even eager to unzip the unicorn to reveal what was inside. And on critique the feed back was not what I was expecting, but oh well.

Create a narrative in the form of an 8-Page Zine

    For this topic we had to create a narrative through the form of a zine. The zine will contain 8 pages and so we needed 8 original art works to show for our zines. For my zine I wanted it to be all about unicorns, but I wanted them to be sad and in pain unicorns. The artworks could be any size and any medium so I went with what I was most comfortable with which was watercolor. 
     I started by getting two sheets of watercolor paper that was 9x12'' and I then split them into four squares. After I got my eight boxes I then sketched out all of my designs. When I was proud of my designs I painted them, I used a mix of watercolor and black indian ink. The ink was great for darkening the backgrounds. When all of my images were completed I made sure to do any touch ups required. The last image of a unicorn with organs will be split in two.

Outside Visit: Miami Book Fair, Destination Comics (panel discussions)

For this topic we had two choices of were to go for our outside visit, I chose to go to the book fair because it fit in my schedule and my friends were planning on going too. It was my first time at the book fair and it was ok, I don't enjoy reading so the book fair was kind of 'meh' to me. The panel I went to was the 3:00 one about Best American comics 2017, I expected this to be about actual comics that professionals or a series of people deemmed as the best. But no it was about a book series called americas best and this was the comics version. This book has a bunch of random people's comics in it. The issue I had with the panel is that the people were unorganized and awkward, they didn't even know what to say next. I did not like this visit compared to the rest. 

Topic 5, (Narrative) Paratactical Incongruencies

We got into random groups of 3 and we each got a random piece of paper with the general statements of :

• I believe in "_____________".
• I "verb" + "subject".
• The "noun" + (verb) "adjective".

For us the statements said I believe in health, the soup is cold and I F*** Aliens. For my group the last piece of paper was the funniest and yet the oddest. In our group of 3 we had to make a narrative/comic using 3 panels about our pieces of paper. I decided that we do it all about drugs and we all agreed on that. So our whole idea was that this believer of health was making a vegetable soup and added some drug chromes and when he ate it, he started imagining himself with alien chicks. 

In-Class Exercise #5: Book collaboration

     In this assignment we were to create a little narrative with a protagonist and a theme that we were given. I paired up with Adriana and our protagonist was a demon and our theme was "Revenge is a dish best served cold". The biggest challenge besides time was to create a well understood narrative. We first thought of an idea and we would then story board it. We thought of the silly idea of a demon who wanted a jacket on clearance but then someone bought it first, the demon's conscience would then tell it to do something so the next panel says 20 years later and its the demon eating the person who bought the jacket.
     It was an oddly hard assignment because of time restraints which would then hinder our rendering skills. This was also a challenge to visually narrate something without many words. Besides that it was a fun exercise.

Topic 5; Telling Stories (Narrative) Reading.

Reading:    "What Is Comics Poetry: An Essay By Alexander Rothman, Editor-In-Chief of INK BRICK"

From the option of artists that we had to choose from, I chose an image by Marion Fayolle.

After looking at all the other images on the site, this one seemed like a form of table of context for the rest of her images.The images of these characters are shown in other comics. I liked that this image had many characters but doing their own thing, like they have their own story, but are in the same room. The art style also caught my eye, it is like a simple style of human anatomy and proportion. The intriguing part is how this image and all of her others do not use text, it is able to tell the story only through the images.

WARP First Post

Labels Help You Organize

All blog posts must be labeled with two keywords, which blogger calls Labels. When faculty visits your blog for evaluation purposes, we will use the labels to quickly find your work. If you do not use the keywords properly, we will not be able to find your work. Proper set-up and maintenance of your blog falls under the Research and Participation part of your grade which counts for 30% of the overall semester grade. 

Topical Keywords

The first set of keywords correspond to the module we are working in. We will refer to these as topical keywords since they correspond to the topic we are exploring over the two-week periods. Your first group of posts will be labeled under Topic: Creative Impulse since this is the first topic (Topic #1). Here are the topical keywords you will use through out the semester:

Topic: Creative Impulse

Topic: Pattern and Ornament

Topic: Rhinoceros

Topic: Narrative

Topic: Landscape

Topic: Zine

Categorical Keywords

The second set of keywords will organize your posts according to kind. Here are the Keywords you will use for Labels:

Exercises - tag for posts documenting all assigned exercises. The first one will be the paper folding exercise from the first class. 

Readings - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to the assigned readings. The first ones will be for "The White Bird" and the Jerry Saltz article from Vulture.com. 

Small Works - tag for posts documenting all assigned small works. The first blog post labeled Small Works will contain images and accompanying descriptions of the three small works you complete for the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1). 

In-Depth Projects - tag for posts documenting all assigned In-Depth projects. The first blog post labeled In-Depth Projects will contain images (or video if appropriate) and accompanying descriptions of the more robust work you produce in response to the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1).

Outside Visits - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to all required visits outside of the classroom. These include visits we do together as a class [during class time] or individually outside of class time. 

Please be sure to use both a topical and categorical keyword when labeling your posts.

Next Steps

1. After copying and pasting this text into your first blog post, create your labels from the keywords we listed above. In the Edit post window you will find an area titles Labels where you can add your own custom labels to your blog. This is where you will add the keywords we listed above. Please be sure to add all keywords to the Labels window for this first blog post. 

The easiest way to do this is by copying and pasting the following text into the Labels window for this blog post:

Topic: Creative Impulse, Topic: Pattern and Ornament, Topic: Rhinoceros, Topic: Narrative, Topic: Landscape, Topic: Zine, Exercises, Readings, Small Works, In-Depth Projects, Outside Visits

Here's a screen shot of what that looks like, and where to find Labels when editing a post

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