Homework

We will look at your 

drawings on Thursday!

Field Trip

This field trip replaces class on 10/22/15

September 24, Homework

Homework:
Please ink your alphabet. After we look at them on Tuesday, you will scan and place into Illustrator.
Have a great weekend!

September 22, Homework

Great Job Tonight, the 3 little pigs projects are looking good. They are due next Tuesday by the end of class. On Thursday September 24, Your comics are due at the end of class.
Homework: Please draw/write the alphabet using a theme (Leaves, Candy, Monsters whatever you like). Keep them as red pencil only, no ink. We will look at them in class on Thursday.

 

Monster Draw Event

To see photo's from the event, click the link below:

http://amonsterdrawing.blogspot.com/p/fall-2015.html

September 17, Homework

Text as Image Project

Goal: Create an image using only text that describes the story, 
Three Little pigs

How to do it:

1. Read the story twice.

2. The second time you read the story have your sketchbook handy and note down the names of the principal characters, key phrases spoken and the plot of the story.

3. After you have completed the second review of the story and made notes, on two separate pages of your sketchbook try grouping and arranging the information into different combinations.  Experiment with scale, direction, font, pattern and creating the illusion of depth. This can be accomplished by layering the main plot points/characters of the story on top of lesser ones.  This will create a hierarchy of lesser and greater meaning. (In Illustrator you will add color)

4. Next Tuesday, show your artwork/drawings that you made based on the story.

5. If approved, set up an art board that is 8" X 10".

6. Trace images using layers

7. The entire art board must be filled.

Story:

THERE was an old sow with three little pigs, and as she had not enough to keep them, she sent them out to seek their fortune. The first that went off met a man with a bundle of straw, and said to him:

'Please, man, give me that straw to build a house.'

Which the man did, and the little pig built a house with it. Presently came along a wolf, and knocked at the door, and said:

'Little pig, little pig, let me come in.' To which the pig answered:

'No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin.' The wolf then answered to that:

'Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in.'

So he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and ate up the little pig.

The second little pig met a man with a bundle of furze and said:

'Please, man, give me that furze to build a house.'

Which the man did, and the pig built his house. Then along came the wolf, and said:

'Little pig, little pig, let me come in.'

'No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin.'

"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in.'

So he huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he huffed, and at last he blew the house down, and he ate up the little pig.

The third little pig met a man with a load of bricks, and said:

'Please, man, give me those bricks to build a house with.'

So the man gave him the bricks, and he built his house with them. So the wolf came, as he did to the other little pigs, and said:

'Little pig, little pig, let me come in.'

'No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin.'

'Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in.'

Well, he huffed, and he puffed, and he huffed and he puffed, and he puffed and huffed; but he could not get the house down. When he found that he could not, with all his huffing and puffing, blow the house down, he said:

'Little pig, I know where there is a nice field of turnips.'

'Where?' said the little pig.

'Oh, in Mr Smith's Home-field, and if you will be ready tomorrow morning I will call for you, and we will go together, and get some for dinner.'

'Very well,' said the little pig, 'I will be ready. What time do you mean to go?'

'Oh, at six o'clock.'

Well, the little pig got up at five, and got the turnips before the wolf came (which he did about six), who said:

'Little pig, are you ready?'

The little pig said: 'Ready! I have been and come back again, and got a nice potful for dinner.'

The wolf felt very angry at this, but thought that he would be up to the little pig somehow or other, so he said:

'Little pig, I know where there is a nice apple tree.'

'Where?' said the pig.

'Down at Merry-garden,' replied the wolf, 'and if you will not deceive me I will come for you at five o'clock tomorrow. and get some apples.'

Well, the little pig bustled up the next morning at four o'clock, and went off for the apples, hoping to get back before the wolf came; but he had further to go, and had to climb the tree, so that just as he was coming down from it, he saw the wolf coming, which, as you may suppose, frightened him very much. When the wolf came up he said:

'Little pig, what! are you here before me? Are they nice apples?'

'Yes, very,' said the little pig. 'I will throw you down one.'

And he threw it so far, that, while the wolf was gone to pick it up, the little pig jumped down and ran home. The next day the wolf came again, and said to the little pig:

'Little pig, there is a fair at Shanklin this afternoon, will you go?'

'Oh yes,' said the pig, 'I will go; what time shall you be ready?'

'At three,' said the wolf. So the little pig went off before the time as usual, and got to the fair, and bought a butter-churn, which he was going home with, when he saw the wolf coming. Then he could not tell what to do. So he got into the churn to hide, and by so doing turned it round, and it rolled down the hill with the pig in it, which frightened the wolf so much, that he ran home without going to the fair. He went to the little pig's house, and told him how frightened he had been by a great round thing which came down the hill past him. Then the little pig said:

'Hah, I frightened you, then. I had been to the fair and bought a butter-churn, and when I saw you, I got into it, and rolled down the hill.'

Then the wolf was very angry indeed, and declared he would eat up the little pig, and that he would get down the chimney after him. When the little pig saw what he was about, he hung on the pot full of water, and made up a blazing fire, and, just as the wolf was coming down, took off the cover, and in fell the wolf; so the little pig put on the cover again in an instant, boiled him up, and ate him for supper, and lived happy ever afterwards.

September 15, 2015 Homework

Homework:
Draw yourself as a Charles Schulz style Peanuts character
Use your blue pencil to design the basic shape, add the red pencil for detail. 
No Graphite!, add ink, full body, full page. No need to color your drawings.
We will check them out in class. Have fun! 

(Yep...! The one just below is me!) 

The collection of monster peanut characters (shown below) is just something I'm showing you for fun. I think these are a great mash up of different themes.

Comic Day

Today: 

Scan your comic into Illustrator add 

color and the text. 


1. As soon as you come in, show 

Arthur your inked comic.

2. Go to scanner and scan in your 

artwork as tiff, jpg, or png, at 150 dpi.

(Karen and Jessy are available to help 

you scan)

3. Upload into Illustrator and crop out 

the negative space around your 

characters, Add color.

4. I will demonstrate, the creation of 

word balloons and text. 

September 10, 2015 Homework

Homework
1. Finish inking your comic.
2. In the class textbook please read over chapter 19 on using text. 

*On Tuesday we will Scan your comic into Illustrator and color so be ready!!!

*Reminder for everyone!!!

Next Friday is our annual 

Monster Draw

Bring a friend and draw/watch a 

monster movie with a group of other art 

students. My students receive extra credit. 

This is a drawing social event. 

September 8, Homework

Comic Extension:
For homework, please refine your comic, if I made suggestions, please follow up. Most needed to move characters, check perspective or resolve the end of the comics. On Thursday, we will look at your revised, red pencil, comics. Remember... No ink until after I check them on Thursday.
See you then,
Arthur

Homework September 3, 2015

All you need to do over the weekend is draw out the comic in red pencil (do not add text, this will be done in class and with Illustrator. On Tuesday I will look at each of them, make recommendations, then you will ink them as Tuesday nights homework.

The comics shown below are samples. 

Homework September 1, 2015

Homework


Draw yourself as a Simpsons character

Use your blue pencil to design the basic shape, add the red pencil for detail. 
No Graphite!, add ink, full body, full page. No need to color your drawings.
We will check them out in class. Have fun! 

(Yep...! The one just below is me!)