Fun Home Illustration

We were tasked to observe and analyse the somewhat counterintuitive relation between the detail in each of the comic panels with the amount of words necessary to support it. Interestingly, we find that the more detail in the pictures, sometimes the more text you need to support the drawing. For example, in this relatively simplistic comic panel, in which my drawing has definitely overcomplicated, the simplicity of the panel makes it obvious to see that the father’s attention is drawn away from the child, despite the child being in pain. And so, the writer can use the bubble “My arm’s falling off” in order to put emphasis and elaborate on the fact that the father is ignoring the the child, through the child’s discomfort, which we can perhaps foreshadow to suggest the father’s ignorance towards the child’s issues and concerns from a young age.

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