Submitted by: Wendy Free, Eastside High School,
Gainesville, Florida
Unit: Drawing -Scratchboard
Lesson: Illustration - Career lesson (cartooning) Fantasy 'Scapes
Grade: High School (adaptable to middle school)
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Resources/Introduction:
http://www.pixar.com;
Picasso’s bulls (stages of abstraction) http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~sheelagh/personal/reps/bulls/;
online reef photo galleries like http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/photo2.html;
jungle photo galleries like (at school! will send in after break!);
Rousseau jungle scapes, Wyland sea scapes (image resource sheet
available)
Resources: Scratchboard
Internet Lesson - by Wendy Free
Detailed Scratchboard instructions in Ken
Schwab's Drawing Course 101 (Sterling Publication)
Materials:
Assorted images of animals and marine life, newsprint, pencils,
erasers, scratchboard, scratch tools, ball point pen, watercolors, brushes
Procedures:
- View marine and jungle ‘scapes and identify perspective techniques
(overlapping, size/placement, atmospheric perspective…).
- Students choose subject of composition and do sketches in computer
lab of flora and fauna contained within their environment.
- View Picasso’s bulls and Pixar website – discuss similarities
between Picasso’s processes of abstraction and creation of cartoon
characters from FINDING NEMO from real life clownfish,
surgeonfish, etc.
- Use sketches to create "cartoonized" composition of
creatures and their surroundings.
- Practice scratchboard techniques for creating value and texture on
scrap board (value scale, shaded sphere, and one animal from drawn
composition).
- Transfer drawn composition to scratchboard by tracing with ballpoint
pen.
- Scratch images using directional line and pattern. Create varied
values with scratch techniques. Contrast is important.
- Complete scratchboard piece by tinting with watercolors – mixed
colors with tints, shades, and tones.
