These four pages from a comic called J no Subete really get me. Nakamura Asumiko doesn't use any dialogue whatsoever, and yet I feel like her characters still have so much emotion. I fell in love with these pages when I got to the end of volume 2. It's haunting, especially after reading the whole first 2 volumes, but haunting in a bittersweet way.Ah youth~~
Something else that uses no words is a NY Times video gallery that I discovered in class the other day. It's called 14 Actors Acting, and it portrays the different "classic screen types." Basically, its fourteen different actors acting without any sound, just music. Even if you can see that they are talking, you can't hear anything, and yet you can kind of feel what they're saying because of how well they are acting.
Personally I think it's really beautiful. If you want to see it, here's the link: 14 Actors Acting
Also its in this gooooorgeous black and white hahaha. I really just love it.
Anyways, I have 3 finals today. Whoopee.... hahaha and some other things to take care of, so I'm going to study some German right now so I don't fail. haha.
Here's a few old sketches:
Enjoy your day everyone :)
Natalie portman's like at the height of her career <3
ReplyDeleteoh my goodness <3 i'm a huge fan of Nakamura Asumiko as well and i was so happy that you uploaded thses scans! waa! her artwork is so difficult to come by OTL do you buy them at the local japanese book stores?
ReplyDeletethere's always something about nakamura's lines. so elegant!
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