BDS 101: Comic Reflections

The comic strip was definitely a new approach to learning. It was actually the first time that I’ve ever really been presented with a comic as a medium of education if you will. I couldn’t help the whole time but think of the strange resemblance of the main character in the comic to one of the instructors in BDS 101, the gentleman with the glasses. But I stray from the point. It did an awesome job starting my brain up talking about and illustrating how the pictures are really not what they seem. I like that it brought up the idea of “what are you actually seeing?” ”This is not a pipe, these are not ideas” so on and so forth. It also reminded me of a lot of the points made during lecture on how we tend to see faces in everything. Overall, I feel this gave me a nice background to figuring out how to simplify my drawings and break things down into its icons. Not just icons, but to break something down to its ideas and meanings behind it.