A Blast From The Past!

The other day I went to a tutorial/workshop held by noted and recognised Manchester-based comic book illustrator Jim Medway about cheap independent comic book production. I didn't really learn anything new about comic book layout, narrative, text etc etc but it was really interesting to hear from Jim Medway. I was amazed actually how much he knew about comic books history, artists and concepts. In the second days workshop we ended up just putting together an amateur comic, it was good fun but not everything i was expecting it to be. i'll put up some photos of the comic on here soon.

but it reminded me, i'd already made a comic strip of my own on my foundation year! the brief was to create an instructional graphic but try and be clever about it, so i was going to try and make an instructional video for the ionic bonding process, using stop-motion plastecine model to display the process of moving molecules from one atom to another. but my animation didn't work out, so i took some of the frames from the animation and with the help of photoshop elements (a cheaper, with a barely noticable-difference, version of photoshop. I would recommend it unless you are interested in having illustrator and indesign too, in which case i would recommend the relatively cheap adobe student design package.) I made a 3-page comic strip of it.