Thursday, January 31, 2013

Pacing

Today you'll have two opportunities to experience different kinds of pacing...

Warm up Drawing:  All the action happens in ONE panel... Choose 2 out of 3...

Pacing:  The Wrong Planet:  We'll number off and you will use 4 or 5 panels to show the action in on of these actions.
1.  The Astronaut launches his rocket
2.  lands on the moon
3.  plants his flag
4. returns home to much fanfare
5.  realizes he's on the wrong planet.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

A Thumbprint of your Senior Year



1. make a thumbprint on a post-it note.
2. LIGHTLY draw that thumbprint HUGE on a piece of paper.
3. Creatively draw out words that describe you on the pencil lines of your thumbprint
4. Embellish with colored pastels.

Intro to Cartooning


Today we'll make sure you know what a narration box, a speech/thought bubble, a borderless panel, a panel, a long, medium, and close-up shot, a bleed, and emanatta are.

Then, we'll get to work on these:

A Person Running
A Car Speeding
A Ball Falling
A Person Staggering
A Newspaper page blowing in the wind

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Abstract Timelines



Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea. 1952. Abstract Expressionism. The painters who came to be called "Abstract Expressionists" shared a similarity of outlook rather than of style-- an outlook characterized by a spirit of revolt and a belief in freedom of expression, and freedom from realism.

For the next week (or so) students will be creating a time line of their lives that will use abstract symbols to represent their 10 most important life events. The finished work will be 2 x 28 inches long and will use ink, colored pencils, glue, collage, paint and anything else we can find around here.

Objectives:
utilizing life experiences as subject matter
communicating in an abstract way Day 1: fold a sheet of paper in 1/2 and number from 1 - 10 on one side. Here you'll list (in order) the important events in your life. When your done listing these, start drawing abstract and unrecognizable symbols for each of your events.