I've been teaching cartooning to an afterschool class the last few weeks. It's been fun, and more than a little interesting. In an effort to be The Cool Teacher, you know, like Howard Hessman on Head of the Class, I told my students that I'd select a drawing every week and post it on my site.
Today's lesson was two-fold. One, I've had problems getting my students to understand the draw basic shapes lightly then darken final lines approach to drawing. So I brought in some non-repro blue Col-Erase pencils for them. The different colors made them feel less like erasing and actually went over pretty big. It's definitely something I'll remember for future classes.
Today's assignment was to take a scene (I first gave them someone having a drink, and secondly two people shaking hands) and draw it from four different angles. I'm trying to get them of thinking in terms of camera shots, rather than the full-body, parallel to camera, ground at the feet kind of way that kids initially approach things. That went over well, too.
So, here's Riley's drawing from today. He really took to the lesson and spun his camera around pretty well. He's got both his characters in three-quarter view, which is a nice way to handle it. This is just one of the drawings he did today.
There'll be more next week.