Feel These Feelings

You will need:

paper
Post-It Notes
a pen.

Instructions:

1. Think of a recent situation in which you had an extreme emotional response and write it on a Post-It Note. That is your first panel and the title of your comic.

2. Create an emotional arc by writing down each emotion you experienced in that situation.

3. Create one panel for each emotion and write the emotion in the top left.

4. Using only abstract mark making, try to capture each emotion visually.

Example:

Thoughts:

I think that when we look at a drawing we are subconsciously aware of the body that made it. I don’t mean who made it, or what that person looked like, but rather as one human to another, how a human body moves to make marks on a page. I think we understand intuitively how calm and focused a body must be to create a clean, straight line, and how tense, energetic a body needs to be to make a rough scribble. And because of this understanding, mark making carries an inherent emotional charge that can be read clearly and predictably. This exercise is about exploring that intuitive understanding and trying to make it visible so that it can be used more consciously.

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