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Assignment 5 Part 5: Creating Your Graphic Fiction

Final Reflection

During this unit I found that I established a usually successful method of working from the initial planning stages through to the development of the final piece. This became more apparent with each exercise/assignment and I now feel more confident going forward. This unit highlighted to me the importance of drawing skills and I have […]

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Assignment 5 Part 5: Creating Your Graphic Fiction

Assignment 5: Your Graphic Fiction

Brief This final assignment is an opportunity to consolidate the understanding you have gained so far, reflect on the work you have enjoyed, the successes you have had and the areas of comics productiion you feel most drawn to. It allows you to create an original and personal project and gives you maximum opportunity to […]

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Part 5: Creating Your Graphic Fiction

Exercise: Shoot a Photo Story

Brief For this exercise you can choose the physical format of what you create. You may want to make a mini comic or an A3 comic-size story. The important thing is that you use a still camera or your phone to create a photographic narrative. Your finished exercise could be a silent series of images […]

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Part 5: Creating Your Graphic Fiction

Exercise: Create An Artwork

Brief Choose panel from the portfolio of work you have created. It could be a single panel from much earlier in this course or a drawing you just made for the last exercise, it just needs to be something you want to develop further. Perhaps it’s a small detail from a panel, a figure or […]

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Part 5: Creating Your Graphic Fiction RT: Part 5

Reading Task: ‘The Art of Comics’

After reading through the introduction to the book ‘The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach’ (2012) by Aaron Meskin and Roy T Clark, I was required to write a short, 200-word statement in response to some of the questions listed below: What are comics? What make comics art? How do comics relate to other art […]

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Part 5: Creating Your Graphic Fiction

Exercise: Make a Mini-Comic

Brief Make your own mini-comic. This will be 16 pages long, and the subject matter and style can be whatever you want it to be. Your original content can be any size – you might want to write and draw at the same size as the mini-comic pages or make original pages much bigger. You […]

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Part 5: Creating Your Graphic Fiction RT: Part 5

Research Task: Visual Language

After viewing work by each of the contemporary adult graphic novel creators listed (some of which was more readily available online than other), I selected Pam Smy as my choice for further analysis. I mainly focused on Smy’s book, Thornhill, but also looked at examples in her portfolio as well as illustrations for other authors. […]

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Part 5: Creating Your Graphic Fiction RT: Part 5

Research Task: Comic Submission Guidelines

I spent time looking at the submission guidelines and examples of work produced by each of the comic book publishing companies listed. Action Lab Comics – this website currently has a holding page due to a redesign. It asks comic creators to send an email to a supplied address, but no guidelines are listed. I […]

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Part 5: Creating Your Graphic Fiction

Exercise: Reviewing Your Own Work

Brief Most of the work you have created so far has been the result of specific exercises with clear objectives defining the outcome. However, every drawing, every panel, every word and speech balloon you produce has a potential value beyond the satisfying of a brief of exercise. Go through the artwork you’ve created throughout the […]

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Assignment 4 Part 4: Genres & Styles

Reflection: Part 4

Reflect on what you learned and enjoyed most from this part of the course and what you might use in the next section where you will choose the direction of your final assignment. I have found this part of the unit to be very enjoyable due to the variety of tasks I was required to […]