I DON'T WANT TO BE AN ARTIST.
An autobiographical comic by Kyran Edel Bagnell Keogh
In May of 2025, I completed my degree for BSc Digital Animation with the self-led production of a comic book series entitled 'I DON'T WANT TO BE AN ARTIST', detailing several events from my life from the summer of 2024 to the end of the year. This included college experiences as well as my own personal growth.
Below are some samples from the completed comic.
COMMUTE.
Commute is a comic series featuring individual panels with drawings over posterized photos I took on my commute to college. Entirely experimental, with a colourful charm and a funny cheeriness in spite of it's complaining nature.
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GOOD MORNING.
Good Morning is a comic about my mornings waking up for college. Usually very cold, and very upset. I wanted to experiment with colour bringing physical feelings, and style switching for exaggerated and more detailed illustration spreads.
SUMMER.
Summer is a comic about the Summer I moved back in with my parents where I expected to spend it with friends, but it unfortunately didn't work out.
It's an experimental comic with a lack of dialogue or internal thought to portray melancholy.