In class we were reading wisdom tales. Wisdom Tales are stories that teach you a lesson. They give different points of view. For instance, there was a wisdom tale called The Three Wishes. In the book, a poor husband and wife have three wishes. They waste all three on fighting and then they have no more wishes left. This story teaches you to think before you speak.

I like wisdom tales because they don’t all follow the same structure. Sometimes they are longer and more complex like The Tiger’s Whisker and some are short and simple like Paca and Beetle. All of them aren’t, “Once upon a time there was a character who did this and learned a lesson.” Every story is special in its own way. It’s even more interesting that they come from different places around the world. Then we get to see how different or the same they are depending from where they came from.

For my wisdom tale comic I made it about The Talkative Turtle. I won’t spoil it but I have a picture right above. This story teaches you that it’s good to be humble. Before we started drawing for our comic we talked to an illustrator. His name was Brittain Peck. He is my friend’s dad. He showed us how basic shapes can tell a story. He told us the story of Little Red Riding Hood with a triangle! 

I used Ibis X paint to make my pictures and I used a lot of strategies like making layers so I didn’t have to redraw the characters in different settings or moving lines and pictures with the move tool. In Comic Life 3 I used some strategies too. When I needed a special speech bubble that they didn’t have, I used the option to make my own. I had never used Comic Life 3 before this project and it was super easy to learn.

Brittain Peck showed me that illustrating is not hard if you don’t over complicate it. You just have to break it up and do the drawing piece by piece. This whole project showed me how stories can teach you a lesson and to not over complicate things.