Scott McCloud

Upon reading Scott McCloud’s comic, the one aspect that interest me the most is

When he talks about what a comic artist is searching for in their career. He divided the different aspects a comic artist can do their best to achieve into six parts: the surface, the craft, the structure, the idiom, the form, and the idea. These aspects, consecutively, are also in hierarchic order, which starts from the surface and ends at the either the idea or the form.

    I find this interesting because it also reflects upon my personal experience and what I might become as an artist. I am studying to become an animation artist. At some point in my life I became interested in how to make animation and decide that this is what I want to do for my life. Now I am in school learning the craft of animation an sometimes I worry a little bit about the structure of my works. I haven’t got to the point where I worry about the “idiom”, or whether I will choose to follow the path of the “form” or the “idea”. Upon reading this comic strip, it tells me the problems that I will face as I go further pursuing this career.

    Before I study animation, I’ve spent nearly my whole life drawing and learning about its craft. There came a time when I had to ask myself how I should make use of the craft that I learnt. I chose animation, and interestingly, I went back to the beginning stage that is durface.