Cartooning

The students requested cartooning and I love to accommodate.  This lesson is so much fun because the students can really be silly and funny with their ideas and drawings.  Their imaginations are filled with great ideas.  They just need help to get it all on paper.

I had the class “cartoon” an object.  They had to pick an inanimate object to draw first, like a water bottle, and add humanoid traits.  Cartooning is a form of abstracting, so the class had to draw the object correctly before they were to abstract it to a cartoon. The art of abstracting the object is quite fun!  The students were making things too big, too small, adding props, and creating strange situations, making fun and interesting characters.

We also has the student take turns teaching the class the cartoons they knew how to draw...Snoopy was a big hit.