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Why are comics and poems alike? Line and direction p3
Horizontal or vertical, balance is all about what we do without falling. Then, the most stable shapes out there are | y _. Any shape deviating some grades from that and we will have unbalance. Unbalance is a disaster! It means STRESS. Consequently, unbalance creates movement.
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Why are comics and poems alike? Line and direction p2
Scale is a concept attached to the size of the media’s surface. Just by changing the size in points of this line, changes the thing that requires your immediate attention at the time of reading.
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Why are comics and poems alike? Line and direction p1
Dots are, as a matter of fact, the bytes. Lines are more like the kilobytes. Since lines are a group of dots one behind the other being perceived as something continuous. However, we use lines to express something more complex than just on/off so lines are the basis
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Why are comics and poems alike? Visual input p1
<<The inclination toward wanting to connect the verbal and visual structure is totally understandable. One of the reasons is natural. Visual data has three distinctive and individual levels: the visual input which consists of myriad symbol systems; the representational visual material we recognize in the environment and can replicate in drawing, painting, sculpture, and film; and the abstract understructure, the form of everything we see, whether natural or composed for intended effects>> A primer of visual literacy. 1973, MIT press. Donis A. Dondis. Pag. 27-28. Op cit. SENSITIVE A poem is a close cousin to comic based on the sole fact that both, start by being an input. Visual or not, both require a sensorial perception that…



