Hungry Philosopher

“Hungry Philosopher” came to me during breakfast at the ducling one weekend, but I had only thought of the pictures at the time. When I sat down and actually started thinking of potential captions, I realized that that was much harder than actually creating the images. The idea for the captions came from me realizing […]

Hungry Philosopher

“Hungry Philosopher” came to me during breakfast at the ducling one weekend, but I had only thought of the pictures at the time. When I sat down and actually started thinking of potential captions, I realized that that was much harder than actually creating the images. The idea for the captions came from me realizing […]

Triptych – “Stairway to Heaven”

For this sketch assignment, I drew inspiration from the darker triptychs on A Softer World. I wanted to go out of my comfort zone and create a fictional story that involved death. I thought about the one person’s death that would devastate me the most right now, and it was my mom. Thus in this story, my mom is in a coma, and I yearnfully wait for a response when I ask the question, “Mom, can you hear me?” I…

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Triptych

Some triptych comics on A Softer World really made me laugh out immediately and amazed by its wits after a few seconds pause. Here are two examples of my favorite: happy mother’s day by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau on A Softer World but I do by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau on A Softer World I found it interesting how different parts of an image, or different fields of view can generate various interpretations of the story, or even completely change the tone. Usually such transformation happens in the third picture.Therefore I decided to create a triptych by using …

Triptych – Inverse Timelines

It is controversial to complicate a warm scene between a mother and her son, but the age discrepancy between the two sparks imagination. In my story, the woman comes from a parallel universe where the timeline is inverse to that on the earth. That is to say, the woman the young man will see tomorrow is actually the woman in her yesterday. The reverse is also true. For the woman, whatever happens tomorrow is whatever happened in the man’s yesterday. Both of them face a future that their loved ones will become more and more like a stranger to them …