Comic Art-Storyboard Test

Comic Art [Storyboard Test]
by Travis // Man Ho Park
Media: Mechanical 0.5 led , Micron .25mm
Canvas Size: 14'' x 17'' Bristol Paper.

This was a page from my final storyboarding project... Although this intentionally is more comic related rather than storyboard related, I still enjoyed this piece more than any other page I submitted for this project. The idea here was to create a storyboard of a short story by Nancy Kress. The story that was chosen in class The Most Famous Little Girl in the World... I was given the last chapter of this short story. We all were given chapters to devise scenes on. As you can tell this really doesn't live up to storyboard standards but I like it from a comic point of view... Here is the excerpt from the story that describe this board

[Sometimes the world you want comes too late.

It was not really the world anyone wanted, of course. Third world countries, especially but not exclusively in Africa, were still essentially ungovernable. Fetid urban slums, disease, and terror from local warlords. Daily want, brutality, and suffering, all made orders of magnitude worse by the lunatic compulsion to genocide. Much of the globe lives like this, with little hope of foreseeable change.

But inside the United States's tightly guarded, expensively defended borders, a miracle had occurred. Loaves from fishes, something for nothing, the free lunch there ain't supposed to be one of. Nanotechnology.

It was still an embryonic industry. But it had brought burgeoning prosperity. And with prosperity came the things that aren't supposed to cost money but always do: peace, generosity, civility. And one more thing: a space program, the cause of all the news agitation I was pointedly not watching. ]

I personally think this turned out okay, but my other pages suffered =[