Final project

I was quite depressed when we started this third project because it was a sign of the end of the semester. To be honest, it was my favorite class and I really did not want it to end. But oh well, I had to embrace it:’)

This project was assigned with a short paper about what I believe.  To begin with this project, I had to write about what I believed.  I struggled with having specific and unique idea of what I believed in, so I just had to come up with the simplest belief that I have believed for a long time: if you are optimist, your life will be better.  After I wrote the paper about this, I felt like I’m writing about something that seems really lame and generous.  Fortunately, Steven liked my paper and told me this belief matches with my personality very well.  with his encouragement, I had to come up with some idea of the way I could express my belief through the art work.  Steven suggested that I should make a comic book, or I should say graphic novel just like I did with my first project.  He thinks I was born to draw graphic novel, and he wanted me to make my own first book.   was very fascinated by his suggestion, and I did not mind drawing comics, so I decided to do it.

I decided to draw two different perspective from two different people,  and compare how they embrace problems or events with different solutions.  I had to design a format of the book to show two different stories, so what I did was connect two books.. it is hard to explain, so I will just start explain as go through the pictures of my comics.

This is the cover of my book, and there is a opening in the middle of the face. If you look closer into the eyes, there are different views…

this is inside cover, that would leads to two different stories..

to read this drawing, pretend there is a black line in the middle of the drawing, and read the left side of the black line form left to right, and right side of the black line from right to left, just like reading a Japanese Manga. if this make any sense.. that would be great but if you don’t follow this instruction, there is nothing better explanation than this.. ah I blame my lack of language.

so what I tried to do was putting them in same problems, of some unpleasant event and show how they deal with different point of view. I put them in to mirrored image so readers can compare them as they read the book.

for instance, here, I demonstrated a general idea of both optimist’s and pessimist’s behavior towards to a lot of work.  Pessimist would say “oh I would never finish this much work” while optimist would say “I can do this. I will do my best!.”

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sometime when I walk down the street, there are few people make my day by smiling at me when we have eye contact, and few people makes my feel bad who walk with frowned face.

in this page, they meet each other, and happy one smiles at mad one and mad one stops  and looking back at happy one and wondering why everyone has to be happy but him. and that thought makes him more miserable.  it is always that way.

the last page of the book.. pessimist one has this desire to kill the optimist one.  Steven actually mentioned that the pessimist one should kill the optimist one at the end of the book, but I was not sure about that ending.. haha but it would have been funny.

It was my first try of book binding and I had to satisfied with what I got. it looked good until we had critique but if fell apart the following day, and I did not have chance to take a photo of inside.  I will make a better one later, I should say, a stronger one.

I love this photo.. he was telling us to gather around for the story time.

we looked through the book one page at a time. he liked it. that’s all mattered to me:) I liked it too except the fact that it took me forever to make the comic into the book and was destroyed after the critique.. but it was worth it to put all my energy into this project.  It was great class, and I am going to miss it. definitely.

My own graphic novel

We had to create the piece inspired by my artist, and since my artist published Maus which is graphic novel dipicts his father’s holocaust life and the realationship between the father and the son, I decided to draw my own graphic novel.

“would not be great if also you use animal in your comic”

before my teacher told me that , I was also thinking the same thing but did not know what animal i should use for Korean.

so he suggested a Turtle.

…this comic is based on my expeience coming to U.S.A

The Whole New World

1.The Beginning

2. How to be Rude

3. Who Doesn’t?

4. American Joke

Presentation

I used some pop-ups for the requirment of two different dimentions..

I should make a whole book out of this, my life after moving to America. hopefully when I have time:)

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