Into our final week of electives. To explain, for three weeks, every second year in the school of creative arts gets to do an elective, which "allows you to work with students and staff from other programmes in the School and to explore combinations of materials, processes, creative strategies and critical thinking which will give you a greater appreciation of your main area of study."
I decided to study Intoduction to Comics: Art and Culture and it's done basically the exact opposite of what the electives are for. I don't want to go back to Fine Art! I just want to draw comics and watch documentaries on Robert Crumb and listen to Michael talk about sequential narratives and Dan Clowes and the Kuleshov effect!
Here's a small sample of the notebook I've been keeping for the past two weeks:
Our first assignment was to draw a 3 page comic based on a film/tv/book/video games/etc. I chose the final scene of LOST IN TRANSLATION.
Some notes referencing both WATCHMEN and CAT RACKAM for the same comic, lol..
One page from a three page auto-biographical comic we had to do. It was just me falling asleep in front of the TV. Boring, mundane comics appreciation life '11~
The notes for my final comic, which is pretty much going against everything Michael taught us? Hopefully he'll uh, appreciate the fact that I'm experimenting? (o god i'm going to fail)
