Phylactery is the name for
speech scrolls which appeared in medieval art, and is a fancy way of saying
“word balloon” when talking about comics. Create a one or two page comic in
which you use at least fifteen different phylacteries and fifteen different
approaches to lettering in your comic. The word balloons and lettering should
be carefully considered and created with great care. They are not secondary to
the art.
Think about your text as supporting characters. What would very icy words from someone look like? How can you depict a heated debate with your text and/or balloon? What are you communicating if your words are too big for your balloon and pop out of it? What are you communicating if your words are microscopic inside of a large, empty balloon? What happens if there IS NO balloon?
Think about your text as supporting characters. What would very icy words from someone look like? How can you depict a heated debate with your text and/or balloon? What are you communicating if your words are too big for your balloon and pop out of it? What are you communicating if your words are microscopic inside of a large, empty balloon? What happens if there IS NO balloon?
Furthermore, think back to
the idea of synaesthetics from Chapter 5.
Can you also incorporate the other senses with your balloons and
lettering? Give it a try!
20 Phylacteries Comic is due
on 10/1 to be critiqued on 10/3.
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