mini-comics

We're watching this today!

Here are the requirements for your mini-comic:

This is your final for the drawing portion of the class.  You'll want to show what you know.  If you don't have to use stick figures, don't.  If you do have to use a simple drawing style, make it as neat and as challenging as you possibly can.
The minimums:  Minimum of 8 pages and 16 panels.
The maximums:  Maximum of 16 pages and infinity panels.  Please keep in mind that each page needs to be readable.  If there are too many panels per page, it can look messy.
1st page:  needs your title, a picture, your name and the year.
No coloring, unless you're using the gray markers.

Koru Painting Planning

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  A Koru is a curved shape representing a baby fern frond. The Maori culture of New Zealand uses this motif in their artwork.
  
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  The Koru symbolizes new birth and growth. Look at pictures of fern plants ready to unfurl. What shape do the plants make? Compare the ferns to samples of Maori art. Use a colored pencil to practice making Koru on a piece of construction paper.
  
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  To design a Koru painting, use a colored pencil to sketch one large Koru on a piece of construction paper. Draw two smaller Koru on either side of the larger one.
  

Jack and Jill Example

Gwen Allen did this wonderful comic about Jack and Jill-- Beautiful work!