The top line of this blog are the theory and techniques guides for COMM 273. Along the left column you can see links to student work. Students post their public work here for COMM 273, Media and Popular Culture class at TLU.
What purpose, would you say, the full page spread serves? The abstraction remains fairly consistent as does the line work. The size of the panels seem to be broad and sweeping indicating a sense of scale. I would argue that the final full page panel is meant to shock to an extent (as the image of children chained to a wall should). The first portion seems to set up the characters as more or less reasonable only to subvert that feeling in the final panel. The warm colors of these pages suggest some underlying warmth, while the final panel seems to be washed in a slightly darker hues. This demonstrates visually that nobody is quite as good as we had hoped or expected.
I think you picked a great piece in Monstress. In these pages as you described them are the predicament to which the Arcanics are in due to the ever changing time and being led by ancients who resist time/change. By analyzing the lines that make up Half wolf and the Monkey King there is a keen difference to focus on as the Monkey King is drawn with smooth and soft lines, Half-wolf is drawn with dark, bold, and thick lines. The lines can be argued to show how these two characters are on two different spectrums of what to do with the impending attack by the Federation. The lines help describe the characters so much better. The Monkey King like all the other ancients seek no quarrel with the Federation due to his ever long life where he seeks out only peace while half-wolf knowing the loss and life, with being a mortal herself she knows that peace is merely a distant idea. Although this draws to the next page to where it seems there is a fine line of what is right and wrong, the arcanics speak of peace and love for life but look to torture those who hold precise information (children). This makes the line very blurry of who is really the villain within the story, because it seems as though both want peace but can not seem to get their hands dirty with innocents blood.
What purpose, would you say, the full page spread serves? The abstraction remains fairly consistent as does the line work. The size of the panels seem to be broad and sweeping indicating a sense of scale. I would argue that the final full page panel is meant to shock to an extent (as the image of children chained to a wall should). The first portion seems to set up the characters as more or less reasonable only to subvert that feeling in the final panel. The warm colors of these pages suggest some underlying warmth, while the final panel seems to be washed in a slightly darker hues. This demonstrates visually that nobody is quite as good as we had hoped or expected.
ReplyDeleteI think you picked a great piece in Monstress. In these pages as you described them are the predicament to which the Arcanics are in due to the ever changing time and being led by ancients who resist time/change. By analyzing the lines that make up Half wolf and the Monkey King there is a keen difference to focus on as the Monkey King is drawn with smooth and soft lines, Half-wolf is drawn with dark, bold, and thick lines. The lines can be argued to show how these two characters are on two different spectrums of what to do with the impending attack by the Federation. The lines help describe the characters so much better. The Monkey King like all the other ancients seek no quarrel with the Federation due to his ever long life where he seeks out only peace while half-wolf knowing the loss and life, with being a mortal herself she knows that peace is merely a distant idea. Although this draws to the next page to where it seems there is a fine line of what is right and wrong, the arcanics speak of peace and love for life but look to torture those who hold precise information (children). This makes the line very blurry of who is really the villain within the story, because it seems as though both want peace but can not seem to get their hands dirty with innocents blood.
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