#not my script

Death

Discovery Task 10: The Final Discovery Task

This week, we worked from a script for an illustrator based on a selected page of Will Eisner’s Dropsie Avenue. We had to write the script, trade with a classmate, and then draw their script to the best of our ability. Our professor said that, with the right script, even if we don’t match the page exactly, we’ll match the spirit of the page. I’m not entirely sure I nailed that—with only having 5 minutes to create panels based on the provided script, I panicked and my on-the-fly brainstorming part of my brain flew out the window. I resorted to this Ivan Brunetti style of drawing, with stick arms and shaped bodies and heads.

There was a lot of dialogue to fit in here, and it reminded me of how much Dropsie Avenue really was to read. The way Eisner was able to fit so much text on each page was a feat not easily done by comic artists. The added bonus is that Eisner writes the script for his own drawings, something that’s rarely done in the industry anymore.

Such as location and whatnot, which I can understand—

—but suddenly the mugger that is killed (who originally began as a full grown man) is now a scantily clad young woman.

What.