Figure and Motion – Creation Story Comic 5/1 + Brief

 

The Menominee and Manabush

One day when Bear was going up a river, he got tired and stopped to rest. As he was talking to a wolf, a crane flew up to them. Bear asked the crane to fly him up the river, promising to take Crane into his tribe in return. As Crane and Bear were leaving, Wolf asked if he could join them, both for the trip and in their tribe. Crane took both of them on his back and flew them up the river, and this is how the Crane and Wolf clans came into the tribe of Menominee people.

 

 

 

PROJECT NAME: Creation Story/Comic

How is the project in keeping with the course outcomes?

 This project teaches the importance of research, adaptability and shaping someone else’s creation in your own image. Also, it practices translation and how some things can be interpreted based around their individual experiences.

How will this project be in keeping with the PSLOs?

 This assignment helps to utilize the practice of making art digitally and getting familiar with the programs needed for it and the course. Throughout the course there is a need to revisit the art made before our own and this project allows a more focused and in depth look at all forms of art.

 Yourself – How to exceed your own expectations.

 I believe I exceeded my own expectations by straying away from designing humans  and portraying the story through animals instead. Telling the story this way allowed for more angles of perspective, brush strokes and new judgements of placement inside the comic. The color palette I chose consisted of 4-5 different warmly shaded colors, but all worked together to decorate, exaggerate shadow and highlight pieces of the comic. Lastly, throughout the comic are design elements incorporated to add to the origin of the story.

 

Details of Tone, Message and Style.

 The tone of this comic is intended to be more light-hearted in comparison to the other Creation stories, which is why the colors, characters and background are in uniform with one another. The message being told is one of teamwork and compromise through the style of simplicity and a variety of line weights.

 

 

 

Works Cited:

Walter James Hoffman, 1890, Mythology of the Menomoni Indians: American Anthropologist, p. 243-258, reprinted by Judd and Detweiler, Washington, D.C., 1890. (Mfc E151.P350 I 311). A shorter version of this story and other versions can be found at http://www.menominee.nsn.us or via http://www.menominee.edu .