9/15 Homework

165 Students:
Your weekend project is to design a logo for yourself that can be inserted into the beginning of all of your animations. Sketch and ink your work, You can add color in illustrator program next week. Below are samples...

166 Students:
You should be working on your character pages for your key characters. (See sample below)
Note that the charter lines up. 

To do this:
1. Draw the front facing character first. Place it on the left hand side of the page.
2. Place a blank sheet of thin copy paper on top of your drawing. Match up the edges of the page so that they are parallel.
3. Using a ruler and your red pencil, draw horizontal lines across the page that line up with key reference points on your character, such as: top of head, chin, stomach, hand, elbow, knee.... 
4. After you have finished drawing your lines, set the page with the pencil lines off to the side and trace over your lines with a marker.
5. You can now place the lined page under the page with your drawing. You can use the lines that should show up through the page as guide lines when you draw the rest of the character.
6. You need front, 3/4 front, profile, 3/4 back, and back views. 

Do not Ink your character pages until I review them with you. I will review your progress on Tuesday.

9/13 Homework

165 Students:
In your sketchbook, draw yourself as a Disco Star or Roller Skating Disco Diva. Full body, located in the center of the page, use red pencil first, then ink, pay attention to line quality. Have fun!

Yep the one below is me....

166 Homework:

Continue working on the first drafts of your character designs. We will review on Thursday.

Monster Draw

An Awesome 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

Great job everyone on the Acme podcast!

165 Homework:

In your sketchbook, draw yourself as a Charles Schulz style character. Full body, located in the center of the page, use red pencil first, then ink, pay attention to line quality. Dress the character in the way that you would dress. Have fun!

Yep! the one below is me...

The image below is just a fun bonus image, the artist drew famous horror icons in the Charles Schulz style

166 Homework:
Over the weekend do some research on the film you have chosen. Create a digital file with photos from the movie, they will be used to inspire your drawing. Look for backgrounds, and full body shots of the characters. Most importantly, watch your movie, this is the best way to begin your research. Draw some sketches, we will review your progress on Tuesday.

As demonstrated in class, create two water color pencil paintings in your water color sketchbook. One is directly drawn onto the paper. The second is done by pulling the pigment off of the brush.

See you Tuesday! 

9/6 Homework

165 Students:
Part 1.Watch this video

Part 2. Main goal for the completed project.

Part 3. Designing a tree.

Part 4. Practicing layout

Part 5. What is Due on Thursday.
Try designing a tree with human qualities. Place it onto a page formatted as described above. Keep it in pencil.

166 Students:
On Thursday we will talk about the big project. Make sure you have a couple of choices for us to talk about.

9/1 Homework

165 Students:
Read: the following from your Richard Williams textbook,
Pg.35-39, 78-83 
Draw: yourself having an over the top, super expressive reaction. Look at the work of Tex Avery or Basil Wolverton and the 1940's let them be your spirit guides. Use your blue pencil to design the basic shape, add the red pencil for detail. No Graphite! and add black ink. No need to color your drawings, show the entire body, full page. We will check them out in class. Have fun!

Yep! The one below is me...

Basil Wolverton

Tex Avery

Ren and Stimpy

The Mask

Who framed Roger Rabbit

166 Students:

1. On Tuesday at the end of class the Walk, Fly, Swim, is due.

2. Over the weekend think about the big project, below is an outline, we will talk about it on Tuesday. At that time I will give you a detailed breakdown.

3. On Tuesday, have a couple of different movies to choose from.