Hi everyone!
First from Mazzy, and remember I will be at the ASUO Street Fair on Friday from 12-2!! Text me and find me to attend our social event!
W enjoyed our class this Tuesday. Great energy and focus on drawing! Thank you Madi for your help!
Keep thinking about the ways in which the powerful visuals you create in your comics influence how your themes come across to the readers. In what ways can you use visuals from our history and culture to make your messages even more powerful? Think about how you need to be careful having your images read the wrong way because the viewer/reader has their own cultural and historical ‘baggage’ they carry into their reading experience.
Here are the slides from the presentation about the power of images (
PDF File).
Additionally remember to think about the power of images when we visit the Museum of Art next week! And on that note here are the details about our Museum visit:
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- We will be visiting the UO Museum of Art next Tuesday (Oct. 18th).
- We will be meeting in the round courtyard area to the side of the Museum and next to Tykeson Hall.
- It is important to be there no later than 1:55 (we will NOT meet at the classroom, go straight to the courtyard by the Museum).
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- Here are the visitor guidelines (please review before we meet at the Museum): https://blogs.uoregon.edu/myvisualstory/files/2022/10/JSMA-Visitor-Guidelines.pdf
Tykeson and courtyard: meet here
Important next steps for your comic book work! Start to design out your panel and page layouts, and also start to think about what action will happen inside your panels. As a head start here is Journal #2 (paper copies will be made available at next class, Oct. 18th): https://blogs.uoregon.edu/myvisualstory/files/2022/10/My-Visual-Story-Creative-Journal-Two.pdf
A last thought and as you move through your work as an academic here at the UO, and beyond into all of your creative and work endeavors, continue to think about different ways to visualize your ideas. Think about ways to use visualizations to help you write papers and reports, draft out workflows, and help you through all kinds of moments where you need to think about creative, intellectual, and work challenges. In many ways this is what this FIG is all about! And as we talked about in class ways in which to build your visual critical thinking skills and your creative processing skills.
Best,
Robert and Mazzy
