Reading

Making Patterns

If you are using the Illustrator Quick Start Guide, read: 135-142

If you are using the Illustrator Reference Guide in scratch, read: 217-221

We will begin patterns on Thursday the 6th. make sure to have the home work drawings of themes subjects inked and scanned.

Drawlloween

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9/22 Homework

      In your sketchbook draw 6 different types of cats, big, small, wild, fluffy, use pencil to design, add ink, neatness counts. Try drawing the cats in three rows with two cats in each row, spread out evenly across the page. Keep the designs simple. We will look at them on Tuesday.

*Since you are drawing an animal, here is a drawing tip that may help your approach to design. It's a 4 step process.

9/20 Homework

Please ink the versions of the 3 Pigs and the wolf that you have chosen for the project. On Thursday, you can scan in the inked characters. Make sure to watch the video in the previous post before the next class.
See you then!

My Pig Family is below

Drawing and Editing your Line

Watch this...

3 Pigs Draft

Here is as a sample of an 8 page draft of the 3 pig project.

The next step is to ink, scan and bring into illustrator.

*Remember, the final text gets added in illustrator.

Once upon a time there were three little pigs. One pig built a house of straw while the second pig built his house with sticks. They built their houses very quickly and then sang and danced all day because they were lazy. The third little pig worked hard all day and built his house with bricks.

A big bad wolf saw the two little pigs while they danced and played and thought, “What juicy tender meals they will make!” He chased the two pigs and they ran and hid in their houses. The big bad wolf went to the first house and huffed and puffed and blew the house down in minutes. The frightened little pig ran to the second pig’s house that was made of sticks. The big bad wolf now came to this house and huffed and puffed and blew the house down in hardly any time. Now, the two little pigs were terrified and ran to the third pig’s house that was made of bricks.

The big bad wolf tried to huff and puff and blow the house down, but he could not. He kept trying for hours but the house was very strong and the little pigs were safe inside. He tried to enter through the chimney but the third little pig boiled a big pot of water and kept it below the chimney. The wolf fell into it and died.

The two little pigs now felt sorry for having been so lazy. They too built their houses with bricks and lived happily ever after.

Homework Project

Narrative Project

For this project, you will be designing and illustrating characters based on the story, The 3 Little Pigs. 

Here are are the steps for this project:

1. Read the story, as you do, think about how you can carve the story into 8 parts. You may want to make some notes.

2. Search the Internet and create a folder with source images that can be used as inspiration for your designs. Look for characters, backgrounds and colors.

3. In your sketchbook, create 2-3 sample sketches of each character per page, (4 Characters=4pages). Look back at the images you collected from the internet. Your goal with character design is to keep them simple and try to create a character that is inspired by the images, not copied. 

NO INK, only pencil

4. Work on drawing/developing the story in the blank booklet. Draw loosely and sketch your characters in, add dialog.

NO INK, only pencil 

5. On Tuesday we will look at your progress. Once the story has been drafted, the drawings can be inked, scanned and brought into Illustrator. 

NOTE:The final text will be added in the illustrator program.

The Story

     Once upon a time there were three little pigs. One pig built a house of straw while the second pig built his house with sticks. They built their houses very quickly and then sang and danced all day because they were lazy. The third little pig worked hard all day and built his house with bricks.

A big bad wolf saw the two little pigs while they danced and played and thought, “What juicy tender meals they will make!” He chased the two pigs and they ran and hid in their houses. The big bad wolf went to the first house and huffed and puffed and blew the house down in minutes. The frightened little pig ran to the second pig’s house that was made of sticks. The big bad wolf now came to this house and huffed and puffed and blew the house down in hardly any time. Now, the two little pigs were terrified and ran to the third pig’s house that was made of bricks.

The big bad wolf tried to huff and puff and blow the house down, but he could not. He kept trying for hours but the house was very strong and the little pigs were safe inside. He tried to enter through the chimney but the third little pig boiled a big pot of water and kept it below the chimney. The wolf fell into it and died.

The two little pigs now felt sorry for having been so lazy. They too built their houses with bricks and lived happily ever after.

Here are some sample drawings to get you thinking

Yep... the drawing of the wolf below is mine!

Red Line & Ink

Clean image ready for inking

Wolf Colored in Illustrator

Below are red pencil, sample versions of:

Straw Pig

Wood Pig

Brick Pig

Wolf

Color

Please Review:

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9/13 Homework

Great Job with the 

line drawing tonight,

here is some of the work 

Homework:
In your sketchbook draw 6 different types of bugs, use pencil to design, add ink, neatness counts. Try drawing the bugs in three rows with two bugs in each row, spread out evenly across the page. Keep the designs simple. We will look at on Thursday.

Monster Draw

An Amazing Opportunity

Hi everyone, just a quick note from my cave...

I just wanted to let you know that the DVC school paper "The Inquirer" is looking for cartoonists and illustrators. You can earn units, put staff artist on your resume, plus... your work will be published. Interested? ask me about in in class on Tuesday.

9/8 Homework

In your sketchbook draw 6 different types of birds, use pencil to design, add ink, neatness counts. Try drawing the birds in three rows with two trees in each row, spread out evenly across the page. Keep the designs simple. We will look at on Tuesday.

Comic Contest

9/6 Homework and More

Here are some images from 

the last two projects:

Homework Coloring Project

 

Poe Text Project

Homework to do:
In your sketchbook draw 6 different types of trees, use pencil to design, add ink, neatness counts. Try drawing the trees in three rows with two trees in each row. Keep the designs simple.
we will look at on Thursday.