Cartoon/Comic Project

Hey Bloggers, Karen here! Now I am going to write about the comic project we did. I especially enjoyed this project because we got to work in groups! And we got to pick our groups, so I had a lot of fun working with my friends! I worked in a group with Gretchen Wieners and Janice Ian. Our comic was about treasure hunting! We took our pictures outside in front of a tree. Once we got the pictures loaded on the computer, we had to resize each picture so they were all the same size. Then we created lines to divide the slides. Next we had to create the text bubbles and type the words inside of them. I found this to be a challenge because the bubble and the text were not grouped layers, so when you moved the bubble, it didn't move the text with it. To fix this problem, I grouped each text bubble layer with it. We also were required to make the whole comic black and white, and then add color back in. I thought this was cool, because you could color in everything, nothing, or just some parts of the pictures! It gave us a lot of freedom with the color. We also could change the color of what we were wearing. We colored in our jeans with a navy blue color, and each of our sweatshirts was a different color, aimed to be neon. One was lime green, one was hot pink, and one was bright orange. We also colored the trees in the background dark green. There was also an issue with this part of the project. Some of the clothing on our bodies were not closed, so when you would try to fill in one of the sweatshirts green, it would fill in more than just the sweatshirt. So to fix this problem, I had to draw in lines with the pencil tool. Then we added color in all of  the things we wanted to fill in, and TA-DA! Our masterpiece was finished!