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Academic Level at Time of Creation
Senior
Date of Creation
Fall 11-21-2025
Artist Statement
TALKING WITH VISUALS
In this exhibition there is a variety
of typographic and layout design
that I composed illustrative
imagery around. This is mainly
because I’m developing job
skills and a intrinsic joy towards
creating something from your
head into reality. Designing my
drawing lets me tell stories, depict
the world I see and learn more
about the things in it. There’s a
new appreciation to be gotten
out of even basic things like the
industrial design of an apple
product or the fashion design
of an outfit. The world is vastly
different when I get to record and
analyze it through a pencil.
In this exhibition, I loved working
on posters alongside a 28-page
comic story where you can see the
character of two boxers about to
fight each other. The posters show
a series of images ranging from
semi-abstract representations to
digitally altered photos, composed
within swiss design rules and an
intuitive understanding of white
space and focal points to grab
your attention.
These ideas bleed into the
paneling and staging of a comic,
too; being able to organize
imagery and text through a
compositional line of sight also
helps me understand how to
organize drawn figures and
panels in a similar way. Hand-
to-hand choreography is better
when you know how proximity
works with panels and can crop
to lead the eyes around them,
establishing a mental continuity
all by itself.
Influencing my work from an
abstract graphic design and
storytelling perspective are
modernist designers Saul Bass,
Joseph Binder, plus Otis and
Dorthy Shepard; alongside comic
artists like Togahiro Togashi,
Tatsuki Fujimoto, and Akria
Toriyama. The illustrations in the
comics are influenced by Steve
Ditko, 1980s Phillipe Durelliet
and Segio Toppi, and Kevin O’
Neil’s work on the League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen. I hope
that by looking at these works,
you’ll have as much fun looking
at them as I did when making
them.
Advisor/Mentor
Professor Bryant
Description
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!, Laser-Toner Print, 5 ⅛ x 7 ⅝ in, Fall 2025
Edgar Allan Poe No. 3, Laser Toner Print, 23 x 17 in, Winter 2024
Boxing Advertisement, Laser Toner Print, 22 ⅞ x 14¾ in, Fall 2025,
Machiavelli, Laser Toner Print, 22 ⅞ x 15 ½ in, Fall, 2025,
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Hodge, Hugo S. HSH, "BA/BS Senior Show Fragments" (2025). B.A./B.S. Practicum Group Exhibit (ART 499). 79.
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/art499/79