Art Lesson 2
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(I do not yet have slides made for this lesson, so feel free to show this page on your whiteboard. You may be able to zoom in on your device to make text and images bigger).
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Materails:
A combination of A3 and A4 sheets of paper/sketchbooks would be best for this lesson. You will need half as many sheets of A3 as students and the same for A4 (20 students = 10 A3 + 10 A4).
However, this lesson can be done with 3 sheets of A4 (20 students = 30 A4).
+ Graphite pencils and rubbers/erasers.
Also, students will need to remember sketched in the previous lesson so having their sketches with them this lesson would be ideal.
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To start the lesson, students will need to pair up. They will be collaborating on a 4 panel comic.
Ask students to draw two lines as divider for their A3, splitting it into four panels.
Or if you are using A4, draw a line across the
the width of two of the sheets.
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Students pairs will be combining their characters from the previous lesson into a comic. This comic will be focused around a unique interaction, that would only happen from their characters meeting.
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Example
In the previous lesson, we took the “boring” ideas of “the floor” and “a water fountain” and turned them into something interesting. Today we are going to combine them into one story. To do this, we first ask what is the most interesting idea in both sketches?
For the first it is that the all the ground in the world is patterned and you can only move in certain was along the patterns. It seems that the laughing man understands how this world works, so he would make for in interesting character in our comic.
The second comic is about an apocalyptic event that leads to the last drinkable water being found only in drinking fountains. The robot is cool, but I think the mohawk guys make for a more fun duo.
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Now that we understand both ideas, we need to plan out a story for them. Planning is what your spare peice of paper is for.
What should be our premise be? Perhaps the laughing man wants a drink of water and needs to outsmart the mohawks?
Let’s write a note for what’s going to be on each panel of our comic:
- The mohawks are hanging out a the fountain.
- The laughing man lures the mohawks away from the fountain.
- The mohawks have to obey the patterns on the ground but the laughing man does not.
- The laughing man gets his sip of water.
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You and your partner are going to draw two panels each. And after you draw one, your partner draws the next.
While your partner is drawing, you can be sketching “thumbnails”. This is the term for tiny sketches made of basic shapes. Thumbnails are a great way to try a bunch of different compositions for your art, without having to put a ton of detail or effort in. Try sketching two or three while your partner is drawing. And try drawing them fast and basic, no more than a minute.
And that’s everything for this lesson! I hope you have fun collaborating. And if you want to move from this lesson:
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