Gleaming the Cosmic Cube

Another incident where I had to trace a student's digital composition for their Digital Arts comic page project because what they turned in was not going to work. Some kids just can't trace I guess.
Oddly his colors turned out looking really great- kind of like an homage to the poster to 'The Endless Summer," except he had no idea what that was.

It's not personal, it's just monkey business

I do a project with my Digital Arts class that's fairly straightforward- we create a comic book page and color it. Since most students aren't confident in their drawing skills and since it's not really a drawing class per se, I allow them to instead composite a bare minimum of three photographs into a picture to print out and trace to then be scanned and put in Multiply Mode for them to color as their page. Pretty simple.

Unless of course someone can't even trace.

This kid had what I thought was a pretty fun idea of a monkey standoff against a poacher in the jungle and he put it together on the computer pretty well, but when it came time to trace it as a pencil drawing, well..... he can't trace anything to save his life. Rather than leave him with a cruddy picture of a great idea I redid the tracing for him. This is his idea and his composition with my tracing.

Radial

We did a radial symmetry project in class today. This was my example.

Marginal Analysis

A doodle from the margins of the agenda to a recent staff meeting.

Four is Thirty-Seven

Star Wars turns 37 today.

(my second attempt at this portrait, this time with pencil and Prismacolor on cardboard rather than Copic markers- I think this one turned out a bit better)

Here's Your Popcorn Bub

I doodled on our popcorn box at the theater after "Days of Future Past."

Nockmaar

We did a fun mask project in class using cut paper and this was my example. 

I was thinking of General Kael from "Willow", so named because of how scary kale is. Yes, that's a pretty dorky reference, but the kids thought it was just a cool looking skull. 

I finished it off with some spray paint, which kids also think is cool.

Pup It

 I did a puppetry thingy with students where construction paper + lunch sacks= magic. This was my example. It's a dog or something.

About Face

An example for Art Class on bilateral symmetry using a folded piece of colored paper and scissors. It's a face.

A horribly androgynous face.

Listen Bud, He's Got Radioactive Blood

I thought "Amazing Spider-Man 2" was pretty much not amazing and in fact actually terrible, but Spider-Man is still a cool looking character who's fun to draw, so there you go.

It's a pencil drawing on grey paper with a bit of white Prismacolor that I then scanned and colored up in Photoshop.

Chasing the Dragon

A group project we did at school where each person made a section of a long dragon with squares of cardboard and some tempera paint. These were mine. Not the best thing I've ever done, but for whipped off on cardboard with kids paints in about 25 minutes I think it looks okay.

Yarr! Image Piracy

I'm a real stickler for copyright when it comes to what I'll allow in student work, so when one student really really wanted to use an illustration of a anthropomorphized spraycan in their project I made them one and told them that unlike the ones they had found online this one they had permission from the creator to use.

Also, not to brag, but I think it turned out better than and quite distinct from the one they liked from online.

Incidentally if you happen to find this image online and want to use it I probably can't stop you, but know that there is a 14 year old boy out there who thinks that this image is "killin' it" and thinks he's the only one who has been given the right to use it.

Collins

A sticky note to myself not to forget my Collins Writing Folder update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc

Napoleon Complex

I doodled Napoleon on the board, thought he looked pretty good, then realized I had no real purpose for having him up there, and promptly erased him. Ce la vie. 

Yoda One for Me

May the Fourth Be With You!