week 5 out of class

Person

The DemiGod Thrangar

Thrangar was born in a flash of lighting on top of mount Bullthur. As his father Gurglund the lord of all, traveled to claim his son the evil wolf Venaheim stole Thrangar and hid him away deep in a mountain. Venaheim raised Thrangar as his own son and taught him to hate Gurglund and his people. As Thrangar got older he started to prove his strength and defeat monsters within Venaheim’s mountain. Eventually he started to travel outside of his mountain and made contact with Gurgland’s people. He went back to Venaheim and asked him about the men. Venaheim told him that the men were monsters who killed innocent people and enslavd them. So Thrangar went to the camp of the men and killed them all. As time went on Thrangar killed more and more of Gurgland’s people waging what he thought was a just war. Eventually Thrangar goes to kill Gurglund himself. They fight an epic battle. Gurgland strikes Thrangar down and as he goes to kill him he recognizes him as his son. He grabs Thrangar and rushes him to his healers. Overcome with rage Gurglund and his men go and hunt down Venaheim. In the depths of Venaheim’s lair Gurglund slays Venaheim and brings his head back to his Long Hall. He arrives only to find that Thrangar has perished from his wounds. Gurglund shaves his beard and wanders the land for the rest of his days helping others.

Place

Address: 687 North Maple Street

687 North Maple Street has a brand new house on it at the start of the sixties. A happy family has moved and is excited for life in their new house. The children grow up and eventually move off to college. The parents stay around for awhile but begin to grow restless and sell the house moving off looking for adventure. In 1981 a new family moves in, the house on 687 is not as nice as it once was and this family is not like the first. The husband is abusive and drinks, and the children don't play in the yard like the ones before. One day the husband dies, it is ruled a suicide and the wife and children quickly and quietly leave 687 North Maple street far behind. In 1995 a young man buys the house. It is run down and in need of much love, but the young man is an architect and he has vision for this address. He begins to work on his dream, fixing up the house and adding strange and wonderful rooms and wings onto it. Through his whole life he adds to the house, until it is no longer recognizable. In 2065 he quietly passes away in his marvelous house. The house lies empty for awhile and is at risk of running into disrepair again until a young girl discovers it by accident. She immediately falls in love with this strange and wonderful building. Not having any money to buy the house and save it, she starts a campaign to save it. She works hard and rallies support around her. After a hard battle 687 North Maple Street is declared a heritage site of the city, and will forever have its strange and marvelous house upon it.  

Thing

Tooth: Lower left second bicuspid

Lower left second bicuspid is the last adult tooth to enter the mouth. At first he is cared for regularly, brushed and flossed plenty. He does his job smashing up food for the mouth. As he continues to do his job for the mouth it wears on him and he grows tired and fatigued. The mouth stops taking as good care of him and and eating worse and worse food. Even drinking horrible sugary drinks and crunching on popcorn kernels.One day Lower left second bicuspid wakes up to find that he has a cavity. He hopes that this will cause the mouth to notice his struggle and that he will be repaid for all of his hard work. However the mouth takes no notice of him and continues to abuse the teeth. Lower left second bicuspid tries talking to the other teeth and encourages them to help him make a change, but they all ignore him and are scared or content with their part. Not knowing what to do he starts to hurt the mouth, digging in and scratching the gum. This causes him to finally be noticed and he is pulled from the mouth and cast aside to die. Seeing his fate the other teeth are shocked and motivated into action and they all at once pull out and abandon the mouth leaving it toothless. In the future the teeth speak of their martyr lower left second bicuspid.

Additionally outside of class I worked on designing content for the comic and doing rough sketches of the story. My original story line above for the house has been altered now. I’ve dropped the abusive family and now the original family accidentally burns the house down. Later the son returns to the house and he is the one to rebuild and add to it. So really the story also follows his life as well.

Sketches of designs for people, and important items to the story. I’m trying to keep things very iconic (not in the Scott McCloud way) and stereotypical in style.

These sketches are me exploring different ways to show the passage of time if I did the neighborhood page layout. The first idea is to show the passage of seasons and the position of the sun. The second is using the positioning of the sun and a fence as a gutter. For the final one I tried to use shading, but I don't think this was successful.

This was my first thumbnail sketch of the comic where I explored what the story would look like if I didn't do my neighborhood idea. I think it works but isn't very unique, and wouldn’t stand out at all. Here I used every type of transition except for Non sequitur. I marked on the page where I used them.

This second thumbnail explores my neighborhood idea. I mapped out the compositional flow for the image, since the page will be just one picture it is important that it flows properly. For the actual thumbnail I dropped the aspect to aspect transitions, and action to action. I felt like action to action was to narrow of a view for the story and aspect to aspect was to abstract for my idea.