Comics Terminology and Action Drawing

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 out our sketchbooks and 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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shading

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.

Jumping Toy

Here's a great tutorial.


1. Sketch your idea on a piece of drawing paper.
2. Transfer your image onto tag board so it looks like this.
3. Cut it out.
4. Use oil pastel and magazine pictures to work color and texture onto your jumping toy.
We'll talk about how to fasten these together a little later in the week.

skull snowflakes

Done with everything? This done well could earn you 10 extra credit points!

typography relief sculpture

This is our next endeavor in sculpture and jewelry. Find a complete tutorial here.

Inspiration

How can we take the "ordinary" things we need to do and own them? This guy does it.

Friendship Bracelets

We're easing back into the week with some chevron friendship bracelets! The directions are here.