User:Poonamkandola

Always Wanted To Schedule
Topic: For this project, my topic will be creating the first chapter of my own Japanese style graphic novel (AKA a manga), because one day I hope to become a professional manga artist, and this is a good head-start, or at least it will help me slowly improve my lack of skills in drawing, and my lack of creating a story...

Research Component: In order to do this project, I'm going to have to find books that help teach how a manga is made, such as how to do the layouts, how to put the correct number of panels on each page, how to create a character, etc. I will also have to buy the correct supplies to help get me started on making a manga, such as manga paper, ink pens, screen tones, etc.

Week 1: Gah! D:

Week 2: I had chosen to learn Japanese, because that is another goal I've always wanted to accomplish. Of course I can never meet that goal, because I'll never be able to learn the ENTIRE language, but I wanted to learn at least basic communication. So I had already found 6 sources about learning Japanese, and I had already made a bibliographic paper with two statements on each of the sources, about how they would help me and such. But all went to waste. Tottemo benri desho. (I think that's how you say- "It was inconvenient".. I think...) ):

Week 3: After thinking about the topic I had chosen- Learning Japanese, I thought to myself: 'I had already taken two Japanese classes, and I forgot everything.. SO how is this gonna be any different? I'll just learn it all again, and over time, I'll just forget it all again.. I should change it to something that will stay with me, something that maybe I already like to do, but just never have the time to do it.. Something like- MAKING A MANGA! :) So I bought all the supplies I needed.. Manga paper is expensive.. ):

Week 4: I had already started on a manga, long ago, but just barely started on it. The most I did was come up with a weird title for the manga, create a few characters, and have a purpose for the manga. This week I plan to finish creating the rest of the characters (There's too many of them!), and start on the dialogue for the manga.

Week 5: This week I plan to start creating a rough manga (the messiest thing ever), so I can figure out how the dialogue should fit, how many panels to put on each page, etc.

Week 6: This week I plan to start creating the actual manga- Start with pencil, so I can make sure everything is correct (I must make sure not to ink it until I've finished all the pages, or else it will be very depressing if I had to change something... like moving a panel to the next page..).

Week 7: This week I plan to add the ink, and all the pretty details (I wish I could scan it and print copies for everyone, but- not only can I not find a big enough scanner for the manga paper.. I also think that- that would be too much paper to carry.. The first chapter of a manga is about 50 pages or so! Multiply that by all the people in the class... I can barely even carry a couple of books!!).

Week 8: This week I plan to finish adding all the details, and have someone go through the manga, and give me their opinion..

Why Do I Like What I Like?
The work of art that I liked the least was "Untitled" by Roy McMakin. It just seemed to be a random placement of a strange shaped stone bench,a plastic chair, and an enamel banker's box. I couldn't understand how it was "art." But then I did some research on him and I found out that he is an artist and a designer. McMakin runs a design company called "Domestic Furniture/ Domestic Architecture" here in Seattle. His works of art are combinations of form and function, and of furniture and visual art. Some of his other works include taking photos of different parts of an object and then putting the prints together to create the whole object. Looking at his other works of art, I could finally see the artist side of him. And looking at the sculpture at the sculpture park again, I actually found the oddly shaped bench and the placement of the box and chair quite interesting. And the different textures of the objects put together also seemed interesting to me. Looking back and thinking, I didn't like this before, but now I'm actually interested in it, I realized that everyone has different perceptions on the same thing. That can go for anything in life, not just art. But in works of art, in the beginning, I saw Roy McMakin's piece of art and thought it was the work of some lazy man. But to someone else, it could have possibly held some kind of personal meaning. For example, maybe they saw the different textures put together as a comparison to people from different parts of the world coming together. Or perhaps some saw it as different parts of one self make it a whole. Even if Roy McMakin hadn't intended his work of art to be for those reasons, everyone has differnt views and different perceptions so it was bound to happen. I especially liked his idea of taking pictures of an object from different angles and putting it back together through the prints. He also had some other interesting works of art, or furniture, such as, what seemed to look like a chair with a frame glued on top of it, he called it "Window." There was also another work of art by him, called "A New Table with a Small Caved Table," which was two small rectangle tables, one brown and fancy, the other white and plain, and they were put together to make a square table. And now, thanks to not liking Roy McMakin's art in the beginning, and then coming to liking it in the end, whenever I look at a work of art, I think about the fact that even though I may think it looks like crap, others may relate to the art piece in some way. So what do you know, Roy McMakin really is an artist.

Information found on: http://quintgallery.com/roy-mcmakin/

Self-Assessment
I'm so sorry!! The self assessment completely disappeared from my mind because I was so excited about going home this Friday! And I know you've probably already turned our grades in, but I wanted to do this anyway.. I really enjoyed being in this class. What I love the most was getting an excuse to finally be able to start on what I've always wanted to work on, my Japanese style graphic novel/ aka my manga. In this class I got to learn how to use library research materials. I wish I had done my work in a steady pace, because I tend to procrastinate VERY easily and I also didn't realize how much homework we'd be getting in our other classes, so I fell behind quite quickly on my project. I think as soon as I learn how to control my time management, I'll be unstoppable!! Okay maybe not that extreme, but I'll be better at my studies and such, just by learning how to control my time management. We never really did any group projects in this class, and I'm not very good at working in groups, so I was happy, but I know I shouldn't be.. I should learn how to work in groups. I think that learning about the fallacies was good too. And it was fun to look up commercials and find fallacies in them. I remembered a little bit about fallacies from a Logic class that I took a long time ago.. The project that we had to do, when we went to the sculpture park, that was also fun. To pic a piece that we don't like, and try to get ourselves to liking it. All in all, I really enjoyed taking this class, it was so much fun! ^_^ I just have to learn to control my time usage, and then I'll be set to go with any class :)