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I am not an active comic book or manga reader, but I have been trying to begin in it. I was not fully aware of the darkness in many of the comics featured. It appears that the main thread is hiding deep messages in seemingly innocent drawings.

Daniel Clowes’ illustrations are really interesting. I enjoy how simple they are but also how they capture the emotions of the characters so effortlessly. I admire his honesty about his work, about how much time he spent on mastering the lines, and how his emotions and environment played into his work. The messages that no one talks about but always thinks about may be a little strange. It seems as if they are repressed fantasies or thoughts we have, like the id of the subconscious mind. But not everything is acceptable to think about.

Misako Rocks’ artwork is very inspiring. I love her sketches and then her doing everything by hand. She captures movement effortlessly, even though I know she has years of experience under her belt. The fact that she is self-taught is also inspiring. Sometimes surrounding yourself with something you want to mimic or learn and taking the time to really focus on it can also help you learn just as well in class. All that you truly need is motivation.

Martin Rowson’s drawing intrigued me. He drew quite fast with intent and exactness. I really like his drawing/painting utensil and ink. The brush stroke is a line I really like with its varying line thickness and how expressionist it is.

I see that my Project 7 does satisfy the criteria for the assignment. It was a more imaginative work and the lines were less structured compared to the other projects. I wanted there to be movement, thus I added in a little tornado like object in the center and the image appears to be moving towards the front of the page with the diminishing lines in the back. I also used some color to activate the page more. I like the pencil parts of my drawing. The color parts do not seem as developed with shading and differences in value. I can definitely improve on the color shading and inorporating more color to other drawings to practice.

It was fascinating to see the work of John Tchelenko with eye movement and drawing. Being able to see that difference in eye movement of an ametuer compared to a skilled artist is insightful. I had expected the professional to have eye movement all over the place to be able to catch the whole image, but with their eyes having a specific focus on one area that they drew, it demonstrates their thinking and seeing process. That piece of technology also offers ways how science can perhaps break the secret to drawing.

An artist’s work that I enjoy is David Shrigley. The darkness of his lines and the words that accompany his work is witty. His work is kind of nightmarish but also realistic. His line work reminds me of a child’s but more focused. His drawings are simple and cartoonish which intrigues me and he manages to effortlessly capture the movement in the images. There is also humor in his work which I find nice.

The cave art was also interesting. They were a lot better than what I am used to being shown about cave art, especially with the color and shading. I thought it was interesting that they compared that art to Nadia Chomyn as a way of saying the cave artist might have also been autisitic in a sense. Nadia had an exceptional ability to draw which is common for children with autism, where they excel in a specialty, but just because her work and the cave art is similar is not evidence that the cave artist was also on the spectrum. Perhaps the artist was on the spectrum but there is also no lie that some people are born with more talent than others. The cave artist could have been naturally talented or practiced a lot. Perhaps other cave art was their work but then they started improving how they drew.