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This assignment inspired me to create something relatable as well as motivational. The idea of bars or being trapped came from the lines on the page and my inability to access the blank white paper. I didn’t want the lines to distract the audience from the message of the Triptych, so I found a way to incorporate them into the sketch. I also wanted to focus my drawing on the emotion in the face of the character. I felt as though I’d get more out of the project if I were able to highlight one attribute of the character instead of drawing an entire action scene with the whole body. Crafting this comic was different from the other writing I’ve done this semester because I didn’t have to think about the entire plot before beginning the process. I knew my constraints and the overall concept I wanted to convey, and I used those to shape the story as I drew each panel.

Lately, I’ve felt the pressure of Emory Univerisity and the impact it’s having on my peers is evident. I thought that this piece would be relatable because it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the immense amount of work that comes with an education from Emory. This three-panel comic encourages the audience to try to look at the pressure and responsibility from a different perspective and outlook.

At the start of this weeks Sunday Sketch had me thinking for a long time. I really did not have a clue what I would use as a photo or what message I would convey. But I just took a second and scrolled through my camera roll and really looked to see what I could make out of some of them. Then I found this picture and it is both me in my element and me surrounded by those I love. To give more context to the photo itself, it was taken inside the dressing room for my high schools dance team which we were all a part of. The people in the photo are the other girls on the team who were in my particular grade. The night this was taken was Grammys night, a night where seniors perform as some celebrity and their background dancers can either be other seniors or underclassmen (which is where we stepped in). Since graduating I see that I really took moments like this for granted and pictures like this hit very close now.

The word choice I decided to use for this describes Renaissance High Schools Dance Workshop for the years I was on it. We all came from different backgrounds, different schools, different places within the state, but our bond was so close that none of that mattered and when we were together it was home. Before coming to the school and joining the team I would have never met any of these young women. Now it feels like I have known them my entire life. They bring nothing but joy into my life which is also represented in the image. We all came together with one purpose, dance. We developed one additional family for all of us and those to come.

The unfamiliar term “triptych” in the title of the prompt made me expect a difficult Sunday sketch. The concept itself is familiar, but formalizing it turned everything on its head, so I relied heavily on A Softer World for reference. My first step was to choose a photo, and I had this one in mind from the start. I have always recognized it in three parts, the vast mountain range, my body, and our shelter for the night. This photo is very meaningful to me because it was taken during a life-changing immersive trip to Spain, and the photographer is now my closest friend. After 13 hours of hiking, I stood outside my group’s lodge for the night and couldn’t help but cry at the beautiful scenery. It was heartbreaking to me that the human population has and continues to threaten such beauty. I felt the power of Mother Nature as she welcomed me into her home. The lodge required everyone to wear pink crocs to keep the dirt outside and served the most satisfying salty soup I have ever consumed. Creating my triptych was an easy experience because I have so much I can tell about the original photo. I wanted the language to be emotional and confusing because that was my experience that night. I used Snapchat to create the text and Vsco to edit borders so the physical creation process was easy. Crafting this comic strip felt more personal than some of the writing I have done this year because the reader is allowed to take what I have written and shown to synthesize the meaning for themselves rather than having me guide them the whole way through with just my writing. 

I wanted my comic to be a message to someone close to me who is going through some really hard times. A family member of mine has a lot going on in her life, and she uses me as an outlet: someone to talk to when she needs to vent. I think about her a lot, and wanted this comic to emphasize the message that I have repeatedly tried to drill in her head. As far as the actual composition process, I tried to make the scene as simple as possible so people focused more on the message than the art. I honestly have never really tried art before, so drawing stick figures was even hard for me. It felt really rewarding once I finally drew the figure in a position that I wanted them to be in. It was also challenging creating a ‘middle of the story’. The context and finale were simple and planned out, but I had zero clue how I was going to create a ‘middle’. I think I did a pretty solid job binding the first panel with the last panel through my second panel. This assignment was actually my favorite of the semester. I feel as if it gave us the most freedom; it has also been the first assignment where we got to make our first multi panel comic!

I had a difficult time coming up with an original idea for my own combo photo. I thought that all of the examples given were very unique and noticed that many of my favorites had a picture of the sky as one of the two pictures utilized. I looked through the pictures on my phone for a while to determine if any two pictures would fit together. I considered searching for pictures on the internet, but ultimately decided to stick with my own photos since I didn’t have an idea about what I would be searching for. While looking through my pictures, I came across a picture of green hills taken in Monte Verde, Costa Rica. I settled on this image because most of the space was taken up by the hills but the very top captured some of the sky. I realized that I would be able to attach a photo of the sky to the top of this photo without it looking too unrealistic. I found a picture of a rainbow taken in Tallahassee, Florida. I recognize that my combo photo does not look as clever as do the professional examples that we were given to model off of, but I like that I could combine the atmospheres of two completely different parts of the world and visually display the idea that “the world is a small place.”

This Sunday sketch was definitly one of my favorite ones so far. Mainly becasue of the immediate excitement I had when it was first introduced. I had so many ideas and ways of completing this assignment. Unlike in past assignments, coming up with an idea was definitly not the challenge. In the end, I was deciding between three or four different ideas. The challenge, however, was trying to find the right pictures on the internet that would go well together when cropped. Although I loved my idea, in the end, I was a little annoyed becasue I did not think my editing job lived up to the idea I had in my head. However, the message I was trying to convey was still there. In my image, I tried to display the difficulties and struggles of living a healthy life style. The main reason I used a unicycle oppose to a normal bike, was because I wanted to show the importance of balance. Just becasue you are trying to be healthy doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a slice of pizza or some other reward. There are too many people that starve themselves and don’t understand the proper ways to diet.

(Sunday Sketch #4)

Creating this photo was a lot more straight forward than I had previously thought it would be. I expected it to be very hard to edit 2 different photos together, but the hardest part of the project was actually finding two things to combine in one photo. Originally, I wanted to take a picture of a building and have something lean up against it, such as a ladder or person. As I was walking around, however, I came across a clock tower and thought that it had a lot more potential to be used in my photo. I sat down for a while and brainstormed what I could use the clock tower for, when I realized it kind of looked like a faucet coming out of the ground. So, I edited the clock tower into a faucet.

I think that this image conveys creativity and demonstrates that everyday things that you see can be used to create something totally different.