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This would make an interesting project: take one of the pillars around school and work on a large scale drawing that fits it top to bottom. Draw inspiration for different architecture around London but create a hybrid of different styles and imaginary structures. You could map it out as a smaller drawing first of all and then use an OHP to enlarge sections and trace the original drawing on site. The following site is dedicated to documenting artistic representations of monsters and is worth browsing through for ideas: This animation is a great example of how the internet has allowed illustrators and designers to collaborate. What started out as one person's simple stick man animation was developed by a series of illustrators into this slick video. Find out more here. THE DOODLE PROJECT from podoboo on Vimeo. For this task, you will be creating a comic strip using the characters and symbols commonly found in mathematics and english. You should design different characters based on some of the following symbols: Start by choosing eight different characters i.e. four from the Maths symbols and four from the English punctuation marks. Divide an A4 page into eight boxes by folding three times and design a character for each box. Write down the characteristics of the character i.e. Angry, aggressive, calm, boring, excitable, intellectual, sporty, etc. Now you should tell a six box comic strip story about some of your characters. For example, what happend when the division sign bumped into the exclamation mark? Look at some of the Mister Men series to get simple story lines/narratives or choose a story about: love, friendship, bullying, optimism, fear, embarrassment, etc. Here are some simple comic strip ideas:
Designers often view letters as interesting shapes which they can play around with. Have a go at cutting out letters from the newspaper or a magazine and creating a pattern with them like in the following example: What other shapes could you create? Look at the following for inspiration:
In response to the Surrealists drawing game know as 'exquisite corpse (EC)', pupils will construct their own EC using found images from the Internet to produce a collage that can then be worked into. Process 1. Start with a simple game of consequences to illustrate how they can combine their imagination to produce a unique EC. 2. Prepare a range of photocopied image of body parts ranging from the human body to insects/animal parts and fictional characters such as zombies and superheroes. You can also include images of everyday objects, mechanical parts and natural forms. Ask pupils to cut out shapes and experiment with different combinations onto an A4 sheet of paper. After a few experiments, they should start sticking down their final composition using glue. 3. Using tracing paper, pupils should trace over their collage using fine liner pens adding a variety of marks from hatching, cross-hatching and stipling techniques to build up a complex image. 4. Photocopy and enlarge the tracing paper pen illustration to A3 size on drawing cartridge paper (thicker than normal paper). 5. Pupils should work back into photocopies using watercolours. Extension
For pupils that wish to develop this further, they could work towards a large scale drawing using fine liners - see examples below. An initial sketch could be enlarged using an overhead projector if they wish to scale up an existing image or even layer images. An interesting way to get pupils to understand key points or story lines of a book or play is to get them to create dramatic interpretations from the original text. By limiting them to creating scenes through silhouette photographs. The use of silhouettes was a common Victorian artistic method and the following photographs from the US from the early 1900s show how amateur photographers used them to create stories. Preparation Teachers could prepare a number of key extracts from the book/play that have strong descriptive vocabulary and a sense of action. Tasks A quick research tasks for pupils could be to find as many images and illustrative examples of the play from the Internet to build up a visual picture that can be used as reference and displayed in the classroom. Pupils should also be able to identify key characters, scenary and the context within the story I.e mise en scene. This should assist them in staging and photographing their dramatic moments as silhouettes. They should plan for: - poses and still action shots of scene(over dramatic as opposed to subtle) - costumes or props - background scenery if applicable Set Up A simple white backdrop and with diffused lights shone onto it should provide a good backlit scene to photograph. Pupils can then pose in front of it and will appear as silhouettes provided they are not in front of the lights. Artist Reference Lotte Reiniger is an animator from the early 1900s and worth looking at. Kara Walker makes silhouette and collages about slavery and racism. You can reference early Victorian silhouette portraits to give a context. Extension
This project could involve pupils creating collages that could be placed on acetate and projected onto a larger surface and traced for a permanent display. Or, like Kara Walker, a temporary installation could be created using an OHP. If facilities allow, the silhouettes couldl be animated using iStop Motion and made into short clips. Otherwise, simple gif animations might be an option. Using a mixture of your own photos and/or off the internet, create a collage showing a normal, even mundane scene in which you transpose a superhero to create a contrast between the ordinary and extraordinary/supernatural.
Using tracing paper and pen, trace the characters and background and work into using the style of Ian Watson - see artist reference below. Finally, photocopy the tracing paper onto cartridge paper and enlarge to A3. To develop it further, you can add ink washes or use watercolours to add tone/colour. |
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