Scott Mccloud: Creating My Big Triangle

While creating my “big triangle” I had never realized how drastically styles, especially comics, depict people. Scott McCloud focuses on how we are able to recognize and see human faces even in basic depictions, such as his example of a circle with two eyes and a line for a mouth. Thus, in comics this allows a ton of variety in the degrees of realism and expressionism, which is why so many styles exist, especially regionally. Though it was occasionally hard for me to find an appropriate example for the diagram, I was ultimately able to find a piece to fit each category, which was surprising. In my triangle, in the corner of reality Alex Ross’s piece of the Joker and Harley Quinn sits. Alex Ross’s style is very much realistic, but still has slight …show more content…
Ross’s style is appropriate in that it makes the fictional characters one step closer to reality. Transitioning to the right, I included two portraits of Wonder Women, the first by Liam Sharp and the second by José Luis García-López. This comparison is nice since Sharp’s depiction of Wonder Woman is much more realistic, yet distinctly in a cartoon style. García-López’s is simpler, and employs vivid colors for highlighting, such as blue, and to me looks like a typical American-style cartoon. Both of these styles are in my opinion a suitable balance between realism and cartoon. In the far right corner or meaning, I put an image from One Punch Man, which I found hilarious and noteworthy since it encompasses realistic qualities, such as the ear and nose, yet looks