Cartooning
Create a small comic book (or zine) of a story that happened to you (memory) or a story you made up (imagination).
Let's see how some cartoonists use this same prompt in their work.....
A Day at School....
Born: 1956
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Linda Jean Barry, known professionally as Lynda Barry, is an American cartoonist. Barry is best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek.
Grab your sketchbook and let's practice with Lynda!
STOP video at 3:00!
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Dav Pilkey
When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. He was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories, so he spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books—the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.
Since then, Dav has written and illustrated a number of bestselling and award-winning children’s books, including the Caldecott Honor book The Paperboy. His Captain Underpants series and Dog Man graphic novels have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into many languages. Dav lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, but his writing is inspired by children and adults around the world. His stories explore universally positive themes that celebrate the triumph of the good-hearted. |
Miguel Díaz Rivas is a freelance illustrator from Spain. He was born in Cabra, a small town near Córdoba. He studied media and communications in Seville, focusing on how to use audiovisual language to tell stories. After college he studied illustration and animation at ESDIP in Madrid. Nowadays Miguel works as a freelance artist for educational book publishing companies and he contributes to advertising agencies, making illustrations and animations.
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Think through your characters:
How many different characters will you have?
What features will you exaggerate?
Will you make the eyes bigger?
Will you have a round nose? A long nose?
Will you draw teeth?
Will you draw stick figures or full bodies?
Will you have people? OR Will your characters be animals?
Will you make the eyes bigger?
Will you have a round nose? A long nose?
Will you draw teeth?
Will you draw stick figures or full bodies?
Will you have people? OR Will your characters be animals?
Cartoon Templates: How many panels will you have?
Will you break up your day to have a panel for morning, lunch and then afternoon?
Will you have just one panel/page?
How do your characters communicate? Will you use speech bubbles?
Will you have just one panel/page?
How do your characters communicate? Will you use speech bubbles?
Use your artist process to get to work:
1. Start out planning your story in your sketchbook.
2. Create your characters
3. Figure out how you will separate the actions into panels.
4. Create your final template (or beak book) and draw in your cartoon!
5. Share your story! We can make copies!
6. How can you use this with other things in your life?
Make sure you add Bounding Boxes!
This is my "zine" about when Teacher Klaver had a fire in the art room at West Cedar. It was scary, but then funny.... here's the story....