How to Draw ... a Comic Character.

Former Disney animator and director, Francis Glebas, shot a short video demonstrating how to draw one of his character designs, Iggy.

Check the video:

Papier mâché/Paper Mache

An easy way to create  3D objets are with the technique called Papier mâché.

On the following video you will learn how to make a fish: Nemo

Material:

• Balloon
• Newspaper
• Cardboard
• Wallpaper glue o you can make your own glue.
• Paper masking tape
• White paint and any other colour you will need in case you do another animal.
• Sandpaper
• Paint brushes

Steps:

1. Choose a form for support (ballon, etc) on which to glue the paper strips.
2. Make strips of paper (newspaper, tisue, etc) and glue them together with adhesive on top of the support. 
3. Cut the cardboard into the shapes you need and fix them with paper masking tape to the balloon. 
4. Cover your project with no more than 4 layers of paper mache!
5. Once the paper is dry, sand it, paint it and decorate it.

Drawing textures.

On Youtube we find several chanels made by Shoo Rayner.
On Shoobeedoodling Chanel he shows us how to draw and decorate with textures and patterns.

Wall-e

After watching the movie answer the questions, click on:

WALL-E

Quadrilaterals

 Quadrilateral means “four sides”. Therefore, any four sided shape is a quadrilateral, but the sides have to be straight, and it has to be 2 dimensional.

• Square: Four equal sides. Four equal angles, always 90°.
• Rectangle: Opposite sides are parallel and of equal length. Four equal angles, always 90°.
• Rhombus: Four equal sides. Opposite angles are parallel.
• Trapezium/trapezoid: Has one pairof parallel sides.

How to draw quadrilaterals

If you missed the art class, here will you find how to solve the exercises from your workbook.

Quadrilaterals

• How to draw a square knowing its side

 

• How to draw a square inside a circle.
• How to draw a rectangle.
• How to draw a trapezium/trapezoid.

Triangles

A triangle is a polygon with three sides and three angles. The three angles always add 180º.

There are three special names given to triangles that tell how many sides (or angles) are equal

• Equilateral Triangle: Three equal sides and three equal angles, always 60º.
• Isosceles Triangle: Two equal sides and two equal angles.
• Scalene Triangle: No equal sides and no equal angles.