Well, I really let the ball drop on this journal and my writing in general. It’s been a long difficult summer, but things are starting to look up again, and I’m starting to think creatively again. I’ve been taking a class at the Farmington Valley Art Center with Comic Artist, Matt Ryan. When I explained the concept of my Graphic Novel to him, he set up a couple challenges for me.
Comic Conversation
The first challenge he gave me was to take two characters and draw them having a conversation over the computer. He told me it should be a completely boring and mundane conversation, but that I needed to make it visually interesting and take place over 8 panels. The rest was up to me.
His comment was that I’d succeeded, all the way up until panel six where I suddenly shifted into the game world and made the conversation too interesting! However, even though I didn’t mean his challenge, this was one of the most visually interesting pieces he’d seen from me and was very happy with it.
My next challenge is to do something with extreme action, a fight scene. I’ll be working on it this weekend.
In other news, I’m really looking forward to my next semester at Tunxis. I’ll be taking Drawing III, Illustration, and Electronic Drawing and Painting. It will be a very project intense semester, but I’m hoping that I can use the class time to work some more on this major project. Now I just need to get back into writing.
