Literacy Comic Reflection
Throughout the Literacy narrative as a whole, I’ve had to think about writing and drawing as a process. I’ve made multiple revisions, drafts, editing, and so on. Composing a literacy narrative about my key experience was difficult because I knew it would be something personal that I had to be willing to share.Yet, it wasn’t a different experience because I have written a literacy narrative where I had to divulge personal details. However, drawing my experiences was a novel exposure causing me to reminisce on past memories and execute them on paper. When I was reading stitches and spinning, I felt like I was in the story with them, sharing the author’s experience with each panel. Knowing that my comic would have that effect on my reader was a difficult concept for me to grasp. Looking back and seeing how my primary experience affected the way I write, read, and communicate, I wanted my reader to comprehend rather than feel.
When I incorporated my visual component to my narrative, it became much easier for me to interrupt my story. As the old saying goes, I can show you better than I can tell you. Having the visual aspect helped me grasp the many phases of my writing and reading skills as they developed during my school years. It not only helped me grasp the various stages, but it also established the format for my comic. Elementary school, middle school, high school, and the final panel to the present. It helped me go into detail when creating my comic, which was one of my critiques on my writing story. Based on how I sketched my characters, I was able to gain a new perspective on my writing and add extra detail instead of being too vague.
The most difficult aspect of the assignment was conveying the emotions of the character I sketched. I was aware of how palpable my emotions were, but I had difficulty bringing out the expression on my character’s face to show my readers how crucial my experiences were. If I were to hire an illustrator to assist me, it would be with the drawing. Another difficult aspect of my comic was conveying how my story does not have a happy conclusion. It leaves the reader wondering about my journey and relationship with writing. Which takes away from the false idea of how stories always go from adversity and trauma to a happy momentous ending.
