Homework 14: Secret of Drawing Part 2
While watching The Secret of Drawing 2, I was pleasantly surprised by the wide range of topics covered all under the umbrella of storytelling, between animation and comics from both the east and the west hemispheres of the world. Honestly, it was a bit refreshing to get to see art from the eastern part of the world (even if it’s just Japan) since most discussions around art are very Euro-centric. However, I enjoyed getting to see the work of Daniel Clowes, the creator of Eightball. I liked his use of comic books not only to tell a story but to explore and discuss portions of society, satire or not. Another artist whose work I found very fun was Sylvain Chomet. I got the opportunity to take a class on 2-D animation last semester, so getting to see an animator’s work focused on was very fun and interesting. The amount of labor to create even an animated film is quite astounding, to a point where even a single film takes several years and even five seconds of animation could take a single animator a week. Finally, the last artist that I was interested by was Katsushika Hokusai. The Great Wave is one of my favorite pieces, and so I was looking forward to seeing more works from the same artist. However, I was not expecting to see manga or early forms of manga created by the same artist who created The Great Wave. I really enjoyed seeing their full range of talents. Overall, I really enjoyed this episode and getting to see different aspects of storytelling through art, and more specifically through comics/manga and animation.