August 17th, 2013
The first week of school I always hit 'em hard. I like to weed out any slackers, and let all my students know I take my subject and their learning very seriously. The second week, however, is usually spent getting to know my students a little bit more, finding out how much rope I can give them (some classes more so than others this year), learning basics like camera settings and shaking off the drawing cobwebs caused by spending the summer drawing cartoons, or not at all.
There is a lot of talent in all my classes this year, and a lot of personalities. It should prove to be an exciting year.
Next week everyone will sign up for Gmail accounts and on Friday we will begin using the iPads. Stay tuned, it will be exciting to see what creative adventures lie in store for me and my students!
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| Some student Anime examples. |
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| I'm not big on Anime in my classroom, but this year we are going to work with the Memphis Comic and Anime convention to help create an animated short. This afterschool project has many of my frustrated Anime artists (frustrated because they rarely can draw in this style in school) very excited! |
I would have loved that! Drawing Anime in 7th grade was how I really taught myself how to draw. I spent hours drawing my own hands, trying to master perspective and foreshortening. In anime and manga, the images have to be as dynamic as the story for it all to seamlessly blend together. I still have a bunch of old manga comics and anime magazines from middle school in CT if you want them.
ReplyDeleteSend 'em on when you get a chance! Art teachers are packrats - we'll take anything!
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