VISUAL STEREOTYPES

 

Comic, as a mass medium, has generated some signs, codes, which have been accepted everywhere, and for this reason we now know that:

  • Cinetic lines represent movement and direction of objects.
  • Animal symbols, lightning, stars, etc. within a balloon usually mean insults.
  • A drunken person has little "planets" going round and round his head.
  • Lightning comes out of the head of angry people.
  • Something similar to cinetic lines, but in a radial position, mean surprise, shock.

EXAMPLE 1:

Observe the blue arrows. They are pointing at different visual streotypes: the impact of the shot, the cinetic lines, the star-shaped image, and the shot to the goal

EXAMPLE 2:

Look at the blue arrows again: the question maark to express hesitation or surprise, the change of colour of the balloon, or finally the character, tranformed by that shock: the red colour on its face, the cinetic lines around, and the sweat drops coming out of his face.

 

PRACTISE

  • Practica a debuxar diferentes estereotipos visuais: liñas cinéticas con obxectos ou persoas que se moven; personaxes que expresan a súa dúbida con interrogantes; símbolos de impacto para patadas, golpes, etc.: bocadillos de insulto ou maldición; un borracho tambaleándose pola rúa; etc
  • Practise to draw different visual stereotypes: cinetic lines con objects or people moving; characters expressing doubt; impact symbols for kicks, bumps, etc.; insult balloons; a drunkard tumbling down the street, etc.