Final Critique

When it came down to working on my project, I suffered through multiple setbacks and mild depression, struggling on how to continue working on my graphic novel. After taking some time off, researching and looking up new things to draw, I decide to take a different direction to my project. Rather than focusing on the idea of an alternate universe, I decide to create a series of drawing combining teen angst with allusions to fairy tales and folktales. The drawings that are being presented are based off stories like Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, The Gingerbread Man and The Little Mermaid. Each drawing contains a little easter egg from different fairy tales, like the apple and crown symbols on both girls' shirts in the Snow White drawing, the gingerbread cookies and keychain from The Gingerbread man drawing, a painting of a prince fighting a dragon from Sleeping Beauty and the rabbit hole scene from Alice and Wonderland. The main point of these drawings is how life can be rough for many teens and how the fairy tails we've used to love never left us as we get older.

As for moving forward, I learned how a lot of big projects require a lot of work and time management. I feel like I could have done better and did a lot more on making a graphic novel, only to end up making only two storyboards. Hopefully with more outlining and planning, I will attempt to make a graphic novel again. That being said, I was less stressed after shifting my focus to creating a series of drawings that combines teen angst with allusions to fairy tales, and was rather pleased with the results.