By this time, you should have established what you need to learn from this year to bolster your professional portfolio, and possibly also discovered some kinds of research or creative problems that you are interested in developing. You should also have a clear idea of how some other contemporaries are operating in the field from the online portfolios you have been looking at. Now is the time for you identify 5 artists/designers who you would consider to be role models in your work, and/or some creative/aesthetic approaches. You will write about these models/problems and why you have chosen them here. Refer to the rubric in week one for evaluation criteria.

I have at this point figured out that a lot of the work I need to do, for this course and for all of the courses linked to this one, will be entirely independent work. I will need to work on a method to produce my webcomic as well as the webcomic itself. I also need to produce merchandise on a small scale for sale in the "shop" on my website. I need to learn how to legally sell my own product and to produce finished webcomic panels in quick succession and multiple at a time. 

I'm having a hard time identifying how contemporaries are operating in the field in ways that aren't already similar to how I am. First, comic idea, then website, then weekly/daily/monthly comic posts. Amas a following and sell your soul and dignity online. 

I have chosen dreamweaver to begin the coding for my Annie Website. I'm considering the use of illustrator for the Annie graphics for the website. However, adobe Illustrator is pretty trash and I'm not feeling vector graphics. I will continue to map out the panels in the original pen and computer paper media because it really is just traditional. 

My role models are pretty straight forward. Dark comic book writers, dark comics, regular comics. Currently my favorite comic book is Johnny the Homicidal maniac. And my second favorte would have to be questionable content. Both are very different and appeal to different audiences but both are also widly revered.