With the title of my blog being “Adventures of a Boom Operator”, I decided to go with a comic book theme graphic design. Using the idea of intellectual unity to combine my title, photos, and design to create a story. All the pictures I used are from my career in the military.

At first the design started as a collage and I realized there was nothing that made it stand out. As the pictures sat there, I had originally used the white borders we had used in a previous project and saw the comic book setting being built. I tried to use my current abilities to utilize as much continuation lines as possible. The hierarchy of the design I feel could have been utilized a little better but was limited to the pictures I currently have. I feel later I can better understand a design feature to really bring the page alive. I attempted to adjust the contrast as we were taught before with the leveling and did the best I could.

The coloring was the hardest part of this design. Using the filters out of photoshop, I found it difficult to really bring the contrast of colors out in the design. I look forward to being able to correct this in the future but found that using the title, with more color, I was able to make the page pop a little more. I settled with the red and yellow in the title because I felt it exemplified comic books. It would bring a little more clarity to what I was attempting to achieve and becomes more relatable to those that look at it. After the reading the typography section, it helped me avoid mistakes like underlining and using the appropriate bolded items.

Overall I was satisfied with this design as I am a huge comic book fan and I feel like it is something “different”. Remembering back to the old Avenger and Captain America comics, I attempted to create the same paneling and titles we all remember. I hope to continue on this idea and make the Boom Operator almost seem like a super hero. This will play off of another post that I had posted earlier in the semester about unsung heroes.

All photos are owned by myself.