6th Media Arts, Cartoons and Digital Comic strips

For this project you will design cartoon characters, then choose one to make into a digital comic strip.

1. Research and Vocabulary
 
2. Brainstorm characters
    and cartoons. Draw a different design in each box of your brainstorming worksheet.

3. Try these online games
    Comic Creator
     Flipbook
     Domo Animate

4. Illustrator Tools practice

5. Design your frames

6. Create your movie


Videos:
Laylah Ali

How to create cartoon characters

Painting and Drawing: Observation in Art

1. Warm Up: Picasso line drawing
2. Presentation on "Observation in Art" take notes
3. Try contour line drawings
4. Choose your animal photo from Morguefile.com
5. Left brain/right brain games

• Take the Color text (left brain/right brain)
• Left-brain/Right-brain quiz
• Are you left-brained or right-brained?

6. Practice finding shapes in an animal

7. Practice drawing your animal

8. Create a value scale

9. Draw your animal. Start by lightly drawing shapes. Use all of the values. Cover your paper with detail.

Audubon Movie

7th Media Arts: You Are What You Eat

Research and Planning Worksheet

Questions 1-5: Guiseppe Arcimboldo

Plan: Facial Proportions

Student Examples (click here or on image to zoom)

If you have extra time, try these nutrition games:

1. Dining Decisions

2. Nutrition for Kids

Search for copyright-free food photos

Videos
Work of Archimboldo
Sculpture inspired by Archimboldo
Till Nowak

8th Media Arts: Dreamscapes

1. Watch presentation and take notes
2. Get Real with Salvador Dali Video. Part 1, and Part 2
3. Webquest
4. Sketch your Dreamscape
5. Start designing. Collect your photos from morguefile.com or fotopedia.com
6. Read through the requirements on your worksheet.

Dove Evolution Video

Salvador Dali
Todd Schorr, American Surreal

Modern Surrealism Video 1
Modern Surrealism Video 2
Modern Surrealism Video 3

6th Media Arts, Typographic Self-Portraits

Typographic Portrait
• Presentations- What are fonts? Last semester's examples
• Movie "Typolution"
• Vocabulary words
• Demonstration- creating and starting your project
• Work time

8th Digital Art, Klimt-inspired Portrait

1. Watch a slide show of past student work.

2. Read about Gustav Klimt and answer the questions on your worksheet.

3. Go to Art Lex and search "Art Nouveau." Read and look through examples. Then use the dictionary to complete the Vocabulary section.

4. Start your design. Watch the demonstrations and follow the directions on your worksheet.

Video: How to use patterns in Photoshop