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my face.
got everything–all colors, all
types,
it looks the least bit unusual.

in bleach born.
all black and strange.
between lips, in eyes.
color,

dark and wild as any child
another way of calling me

Determined Mrs.

Failure to excuse.

Destined to succeed.

Dissatisfied wish for selfish gratifications.

I went into this assignment thinking it would be difficult for me because I easily get lost in a page of words now that I’m used to graphic novels and comics. At first it was, but then I focused myself and began to dissect the pages I had. The poem I made is mostly talking about how you can at one point have such a positive view on your life and think you’re doing well and then another point you can think you’re spiraling out of control and not meeting any goals. This is often how I’ve felt throughout my few months in college so I felt very confident in my words. So confident I didn’t think any drawing in the background could add to the words alone so I just used color and a common symbol for success.

Herself in truth crowned

Color and sound

Unsurpassed personal perfection

No protection

Like

Exposed reflections

Great moments

Ascents and descents

Unprecedented

Daddy promised money.

She smiled and kissed him.

Daddy tried to say he really did love.

Is it too mean? I don’t know, but I felt like ever other idea I had was over the top or offensive in some way. After a couple hours agonizing over finding a joke that I actually thought was funny yet tame, I decided to just follow my instinct and let whatever happens happen. That being said, This week’s Sunday Sketch was a toughie. The idea was the toughest part for me, the execution was simple. Of course I don’t really feel this way about grandmas. The prompt was to write a joke but I feel like that warranted being said regardless. 

After hand drawing my triptych, I knew that for this Sunday sketch of a quadriptych, I wanted to make it out of photos. I thought it would be interesting to see how the challenge of story telling changes from hand drawn images to photos. I searched my phone trying to find four consecutive images that told a story. I found two solid candidates, and eventually settled on the one you see below. This set of four pictures shows my two cousins while we were all on vacation. My cousins and I are basically like siblings, we see each other all the time and are super close. In this moment, their mom wanted to take a picture of them, and at first they didn’t want to, however came around in the end.

After finishing this assignment I took a look at my triptych and tried to compare it to my quadtriptych. In my personal opinion, I found it a lot easier to make and understand the story when it was hand drawn. The stories for both though were very interesting, as my triptych was fiction, while the photos I chose were from a real event that I had a memory of. As a result, I was able to tell the story of what was happening during the four photos.

Initially when I started working on this assignment I had no idea where to begin. After seeing the example posted on the assignment page, I decided to make a comic that was houmorous and fall-related. Shortly after searching for puns I came across the phrase “I’m hollow inside” on Elite Daily. This inspired me to create the comic pictured above. I found a comic with a therapist sitting across from a baby and replaced the baby with a pumpkin. I also added multiple frames in order to create more of a shock and to avoid all-at-onceness.