CREATE A COMIC
THAT CONFRONTS
AN ISSUE IN OUR WORLD
TODAY
WHAT & WHY
YOUR comic strip to CONFRONT something you are not okay with in today's World.
FINAL TOUCHES
Critiques, Speaking about your art + Submission Opportunities
WHAT IS A COMIC?
SIMPLY DEFINED
RESOURCES FOR YOU
Comic Art is a medium of expression that communicates ideas via images, often combined with text or other forms of visual information. They are frequently designed into juxtaposed sequences of panels of images. Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and sound effects indicate dialogue, narration, or other information.
Elements such as size and placement of panels control narrative pacing. Cartooning and similar forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics.
Forms of comics include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, comic books, graphic novels and webcomics.
INSPIRATION
WHAT IS MY WHY?
CREATING A MESSAGE
RESOURCES FOR YOU
First: Let's define a POLITICAL CARTOON: a drawing (often including caricature) made for the purpose of conveying editorial commentary on politics, politicians, and current events. Such cartoons play a role in the political discourse of a society that provides for freedom of speech and of the press.
This being said, to create a political cartoon, we must first be clear on what your message will be - what your comic will stand for - and what current issue you will confront with your art.
In the resources on the right, you will find your document to complete for your brainstorm, as well as some inspiration in creating clarity around YOUR MESSAGE.
ASSIGNMENT
Step 1: Click Brainstorm link, then make a copy for yourself
(File -> Make a Copy) and AS ALWAYS save in your
Google Drive in this project's folder.
Step 2: Complete the brainstorm to create your idea.
IF YOU GET STUCK: Get support by asking questions, seek inspiration from ALL OF THE RESOURCES ON THIS PAGE, let yourself freely draw/journal/process. Coming to class with an "I don't know what to do," without advocating for yourself = staying silent (watch video link provided on right - there is plenty to speak about).
Step 3: Turn into Google Classroom
HOW DO I USE INDESIGN?
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
RESOURCES FOR YOU
This is a program based in VECTOR ART: Meaning that the art you create in here is created by points, lines, curves and shapes (based off of mathematical formulas.
Creating in a vector format gives us the opportunity to scale things down or up - without loosing quality or creating a pixelated rendering. THIS, is why we create logos in Illustrator: We simply can resize our graphic to fit ANY size we need.
In your resources tab you will find the guided exercise to support you in learning the program's ability to draw in Illustrator.
RESOURCES YOU WILL NEED:
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HEADPHONES (yours or mine)
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A computer with Illustrator and working Internet
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Log in to the G Drive and open your Digital Art folder
ALT. ASSIGNMENT CHALLENGE
FOR THOSE WHO ALREADY KNOW THE PEN TOOL
Go find an image/illustration of something that you feel like you couldn't draw, place it into illustrator and trace it using the pen tool.
(you can submit this instead of the assignment listed on the right)
Step 1: Download zipped file (double click to unzip) and place in your G Drive DA Folder for this project.
Step 2: Watch this video on how to complete the tutorial.
Watch the video, pause the video, and then DO what the video is showing you. Ask questions if something isn't working correctly.
Step 3: Save what you have each day.
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SAVE AS : Learning the Pen Tool Worksheet
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SAVE the final worksheet as a ILL doc
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EXPORT a JPEG (there is no 'save as' JPEG in Ai)
ASSIGNMENT
CRITIQUE
ASSIGNMENT
RESOURCES FOR YOU
Step 1: Click Critique link, then make a copy for yourself
(File -> Make a Copy) and AS ALWAYS save in your
Google Drive in this project's folder.
Step 2: Share the entire fold for this project with your critique group (click on the folder, press SHARE - ensure that they have EDITING ACCESS)
Step 3: Critique your critique group's work - on their critique sheet in their project's folder
Step 4: After receiving your critique back, read through the responses, then fill out the reflection questions on the last page.
Step 5: Turn into Google Classroom
PSST AHS: Please make sure graduated Brother sees this and my love for his self portrait? whoever has his #?
SEE THE STUDENTS WORK
FROM ANIMAS
Hey you all. love bomb.
THEY MADE ART WITH MESSAGES
and are dang good at it.
Sharing their creative magical "misfit" work to show you... examples of how those... who have a lot to protest, because most see them as misfits...
I'M HERE TO PUT THEM IN THE WHITEHOUSE.
ANIMAS KIDS: if you didn't see my Gavin tribune, go see it in the store. <3 reunion soon to play? My love son is coming your way next year. Remi. Please love him for me, eh?