Assessment 2A: Drawing and Speculation

Chris Ware: Research
Chris Ware is an American artist and writer whose comics explore themes of social isolation, emotional torture and depression. The origin of his comics is in the form of a written story. Ware uses the principle of time continuity to exchange text and images to form an image. Their content is countless symbols and icons. Among them, his precise geometric layout makes the comics look like computer-generated, but Ware uses almost exclusively manual drawing tools such as paper and ink, rulers and T-squares. He tends to use vivid palettes and realistic, detailed details. Raeburn pointed out that “comics are a map of the fourth dimension, composed not only of the intersection of words and pictures, but also of words that act like pictures and pictures that act like words, with colour and composition shaping the map with their own structure and emotional meaning."(2004) where the figure1 shows ware's The New Yorker shows the story of architecture, showing the story of people in the building in great detail. The figure2 shows the ware's Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. This picture shows the life in the town, not in the life of a building.
Figure 1 :The New Yorker
Figure 2 : Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
Before designing, we conducted a workshop to draw in the city - the frame. At the seminar, we learned how to draw 3D buildings. We practiced our drawing method on the goods line. figure3 shows the draft we practiced painting in the classroom. On this basis, we learn to draw maps that belong to us.
Figure 3 : The Goods Line Practices
I have designed two ideas for this assignment, and figure 4 shows the city in the memory of the complete map. It graphically displays the map, and each building is a black frame to display. After that I changed the way of painting, making the map more colorful and not single, but the entire map was only partially constructed using 3D painting (figure 5). According to the construction method of ware's comic painting, I changed my mind, instead of sticking to the whole map, but painting a single building such as figure 6.
Figure 4 :The City Map
Figure 5 :Comic City Map
Figure 6 :Comic Building
Through the research of ware, I changed my painting style, increased my detailed memory of the city, and made my map increase the story. First I use electronic painting to draw every building I will draw. Since ware's drawing tools are mostly ink and paper, I will use hand-drawn to add story details. Figures 7, 8 and 9 show my electronic paintings of UTS buildings.
Figure 7 :UTS Blue Building Electronic Painting
Figure 8 :UTS Library Electronic Painting
Figure 9 :UTS Building 1 Electronic Painting
After completing the electronic painting, I made a hand-painting and completed my map. Figure 10 shows my paintings of the UTS Blue building. I also learned how to draw ware comics. Each small square shows my story in this building. Below the building is the environment that you will encounter every day. Two squares show more details, such as computers and tables. The top of the building is a detail showing the printout, and the other side is the resting environment. It shows the environment and things that you see every day in the blue building.
Figure 10 :UTS Blue Building Hand Drawing
Figure 11 shows my paintings on the UTS Library. Below the building, I show the pictures I saw after entering the library. The work display stands, already the student consultation office, I drew every detail. The above picture shows the library's bookshelf, the book stool, the book, and various details. The same scanner that is indispensable to the library, I also painted the top left corner of the screen.
Figure 11 :UTS Library Hand Drawing
Figure 12 shows the UTS building1. My memory is very empty, so the building below shows the empty rest of the building, the escalator upstairs, and the green vegetation on the second floor. In the upper right corner of the picture is the art display area inside the building.
Figure 11 :UTS Building 1 Hand Drawing
Figure 13 shows my final map display. I use the grid to place the city map in the middle of the screen and extend it to the details in the building.
References
Braithwaite J., Ware C. 2017, Chris Ware: Conversations, University Press of Mississippi, United States of America.
Ware C. 1967, Building stories, Comic books, Pantheon Books, New York.
Ware C.  2000, Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth, Children's stories, Pantheon Books, New York.

 
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