Friday 2/5 in Art I: It's Friday!

Today we'll be getting our ball drawing and Still Life #1 finished and ready to turn in. Before you turn anything in, think about the target and self evaluate your progress. You should be shooting for the bull's eye!

Friday 2/5 in Cartooning: Reading Day!

It's finally Friday and we're reading comics in class today. I'll be reading La Perdida...

Thursday 2/4 in Cartooning: Dinosaurs + Action Drawing

We've talked about Dinosaur Comics in class and today you'll get you're own blank copy to add text to. Think about thought bubbles, word bubbles, and narration boxes. Bonus points for adding emanata. Keep this in your folder when you're done.

Next, we'll continue working with drawing motion. Today you can choose 2 out of these three scenarios:

1. A ball crashes through a window into a kitchen and rips through the newspaper of a person sitting in the room. The person reacts to the window breaking.
2. Person 1 trips person 2. Person 1 is laughing, person 2 is trying to catch him or herself and is knocking over the lamp.
3. Two guys are fighting. Guy 1 throws a rock at guy 2. Guy 2 is hit by the rock, which makes him shoot his gun into the air. The bullet hits and breaks a chain holding up a heavy lamp over guy 1's head.

Here are some examples.

Thursday 2/4 in Art I: Still Life #1

Before you start working on the still life for today, we'll review all of the necessary components of shading the ball from yesterday. Focus on PROPORTION! How wide is the pringles can compared to how tall it is? How big should the ball be? How wide is the party hat compared to how tall it is? How does it compare to the pringles can?

Wednesday 2/3 in Cartooning: What are Comics?

Today we'll focus on sketching 5 separate drawings. We're trying to show movement!

1. a person running
2. a car speeding
3. a ball falling
4. a person staggering
5. a newspaper page blowing in the wind

There will student be examples of these on the Drawing Words website.

We'll also be viewing a powerpoint presentation with a little bit of the history of comics.

Wednesday 2/3 in Art I: Intro to Shading for Art I

Today we will be working on shading a simple form like a sphere. Without shading, forms often look flat and lifeless. Once you start playing around with shading, things begin to appear more life like. This website has some great directions for getting you started. Today in class we'll watch this video as well. This drawing will be due at the end of class.

Wally Wood's 22 Panels that Always Work!!

Starting something new is both exciting and intimidating! I'm so lucky that Zander can help me out with the specifics on teaching a class like Cartooning and Animation. I like how his take on what should be included in good comics simplifies what Wally Wood shows, and slices it into a more digestible portion. His expertise buys me the time to discover some interesting things on my own as well...