I’m working on a art exercise and need support to help me learn.
The content of this short comic strip comes from you, but what we did that led up to it was first we split a page into three squares like this:
After that we labeled each of the squares like this:
The squares that you see there, inside of the ‘Splash Page’ part can be bigger or made on a separate sheet of paper.
Under the ‘Characters’ square/section you want to draw/doodle or write in bullet point format (or in short sentences) 4 to 5 possible characters that could become characters of a story or comic you could write – maybe you can borrow from what you did in the Photography Hands-on Assignment #1. This is like a big brainstorm, and you want to write or visualize the kinds of characters that could populate an art piece or story you build, a world with your style and imagery.
Under the ‘Stories’ square/section you want to draw/doodle or write in bullet point format (or in short sentences) 3 to 4 possible characters that could become stories or story-ideas (maybe part of a story) you could write – maybe you can also borrow here from what you have written in some of the Writing Entries, where you have reflected on stories your family have told you or parts of Chicano/a/x history that you wish you would have learned more about in school.
Then under the ‘Splash Page’ part you have 3 cells/squares, and each one will have inside of it something you draw to make a comic, or a short story though visuals. You could title your first cell/square ‘Past’, and the second one titled ‘Present’, and the third one titled ‘Future’. You don’t have to title them at all, and you don’t have to title them that, it’s just to help you. You basically want the first one to be a kind of beginning to your very short comic, and you want the second one to be a kind of middle to your very short comic, and then the last/third one to a kind of ending to your very short comic. Besides drawing something inside the 3 squares, you want to also write a sentence or two above or below each square, briefly stating what it is that the cell/square is about (it can be poetic, it doesn’t need to be so matter-of-fact). Here’s what the one I made in class looked like (please spend more time on yours, and you don’t need to do it digitally if you don’t want to):
the short story you have already written – the one that is about a page or so in length, and that is about a Narrator coming from an Earth-like planet, and coming from the future, into a time closer to our present day and Earth where the story takes place.
The comic strips, which consist of 3 squares each, will use these building blocks of the textual-visual comic-language (They are from Scott McCloud’s book ‘Making Comics’, and are referred to as ‘Panel-to-Panel Transitions’):
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