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WEEK 15

For week 15, I looked at How to Draw Hands and Feet. I was drawn to this because I think of myself as someone who cannot draw at all. Especially since I’m not in illustration, I’m not connected to these tips and skills on how to draw body parts like a true artist, or someone who can really draw well.   I know I will never be able to draw a graphic comic.   But it’s always great to be able to gain some insight into skills that I always assumed could not be learned. I am amazed by the artistry of these novels. I will never be able to draw one. But to see that there are rules that can be followed to come up with something resembling art opened me up to possibilities. Maybe, just maybe, if I practiced I could do it because I can learn the rules. I found it interesting that each step is broken down, detail by detail, in order to get a perfectly drawn hand or foot. It was definitely good advice in the long run and makes me appreciate even more comic styles and comic draw
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Week 11

For week 11, I chose to read Pride of Baghdad. It was an incredibly sad story, which I personally believed sent a strong message about how terrible the war in Iraq was. It also made a strong point as to how much suffering there was for both people and animals alike when Iraq was bombed by the American led-coalitions.               This graphic novel has a powerful opening, in which the lions in the Baghdad zoo are communicating with one another on how to take matters into their own control. All the animals are angry and enraged at the keepers of the zoo. Their feelings and emotions really engaged me. It made me think about how even in 2018, a lot of animals are mistreated and held in misery in captivity.             When the American planes bomb the zoo and other parts of Baghdad, the story got even more intense. It shows monkeys trying to hurt a lion cub, and the mother of the cub coming to save it from the monkeys that are bullying it. In addition, there is a confrontation with
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WEEK 10

For the Manga comics, I read Ranma by Rumiko Takahashi. It was decent, but not great. I didn’t really connect or get engaged in these Manga comics because I wasn’t really familiar with them. Actually, what I think I didn’t like was that it was actually a silly story. Especially that whole panda thing. I felt like the author was bored and just decided to create a random flow instead of thinking through a story that really made sense. Ranma is about a family with three teenaged daughters. One is them must marry Ranma. This story of royal daughters meeting an honorable man has been shown and done in multiple stories, so for it to be interesting, it has to have a twist. Well, there’s a twist here, a gender-bending twist, but it was done poorly and was boring with all the back and forth of what gender Ranma was. I chose to read this comic though because I at least got a sense of the frame style and the imagery of what Manga comics. I tried to have an open mind, but I j
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