March 10th Class

Comics!

After having fun designing characters in both two-dimension and three-dimension, we decided to make these characters come to life even more. What better than to have these thoughtfully designed characters become a comic! Comics provide students with an abundance of areas to excel in, from illustration to storytelling.

The objective was for students to learn that they can use visual storytelling to express imaginative ideas in the form of a comic, through use of drawing, text, and placement.

After beginning the class with a little charades skit where students used visual cues to tell us what we were trying to say, we learned that you can tell a story through the use of images, expression, and placement. Once charades was finished, it was time to begin thinking about a "skit" for their own characters. Last class, there were certainly a lot of imagination put into their characters, so making a comic allowed students to go even further with thinking.

Each student put their own spin on their story in interesting ways; some used word bubbles and expressive marks, while others used more text, and some used only images.

This lesson provided a way for us to learn even more about each student, and allowed them to explore multiple ways to tell a story.

Make sure to check out some of our comics!

March 10th Class

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After spending some time getting messy with paint, we switched gears and began learning about the differences between two- dimensional and three-dimensional, and how to transform something from 2D to 3D.

The goal was to have students analyze the transformational relationship of their ideas from paper (2D) to space (3D).

They started off by drawing their own creatures and characters. While doing so, they identified specific shapes and colors used in the making of their character, and gave some brief descriptors about their character.

Then we began having some fun with model magic! Similar to play-doh, model magic allowed students to transform their character from a two-dimensional drawing, to a three-dimensional image. This allowed students to observe the relationship of transforming an image from 2D to 3D, and also how one image can be represented in more than one way.

Take a look at some of our drawings, and 3D models!