So this is my result:
We thought it might be a good format to each answer the same set of questions each week. So here are my answers:
Q. What did you think when you saw the week's task?
A. I felt that Tor had thrown me in at the deep end - "damn you Tor!" Is what I thought! No such thing as easing us in. For context, I am used to drawing from observation, and am not confident at all drawing from my imagination. I was hoping we might be recreating a photo in our own style, so I was a bit scared by the prospect of doing a three panel comic.
Q. Talk us through your image...
A. I felt quite stuck at first, but there was a point in my pondering of the image that I felt that the women looked quite like octopuses or squids, and the rest kind of went from there.
Q. How do you feel about your results?
A. Weeell.... I feel that I have made a three panel comic which doesn't make any sense, and is pretty conventional. I made the image in ProCreate, which is an app on the iPad, which I am also learning, so it was a learning curve in more than one way. However, I am quite pleased that I have managed to create something. I hope in time I will be able to actually put some personality in my imaginative work, and also that my rendering technique, whatever that may be (proCreate etc) will improve too!
Q. What do you think was the least successful part of your piece?
A. I wish I had thought of a more original or snappy story. I am expecting good things from Tor! I'm also not sure I have got the reading order of the speech bubbles right.
Q. And the most successful?
A. That I actually completed the task. More than I might have hoped for.
Q. Did you learn anything?
A. Yes, it has got me thinking about sequence and reading order, which is a really great thing for me to be thinking about, as my next module on the MA I am studying is "sequential image".
Q. Any final thoughts?
A. Thanks Tor for pushing me! I am glad you set this task, despite my reservations!
And this is Tor, with my comic:
A. I'd been reading Tom's book as I mentioned, and fancied doing something comics-related from that. I knew Ella would get a bit of a fright, but hoped it would be fun!!
Q. Talk us through your image...
A. I realised quite early that I wasn't going to make a coherent story, so I've cheated and gone for literal gobbledygook.
Q. How do you feel about your results?
A. I like the cat and the mummy, which are new characters for me to use somewhere else! And I always enjoy drawing a brain in a jar.
Q. What do you think was the least successful part of your piece?
A. It's nonsense - that's kind of a shame!
Q. And the most successful?
A. I like the colours! I was looking at the Ahlbergs' Funnybones again recently, and remembering what beautiful books they are.
Q. Did you learn anything?
A. I'm not sure that I did - and I think I should have gone for something simpler for our first challenge!
Q. Any final thoughts?
A. I love yours Ella, and I'm really happy to read that you got something out of it!! Swapping what we're learning seems like a great result from Next We Draw!
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