Today the second grade students were working on cartoon emulations. The assignment was to choose one frame of a comic strip, create a grid for it, and blew it up on a large scale. The students had to look at proportion and color matching, which for some of them was very difficult. After they drew and colored their comic frame, they were to outline it with black Sharpie. The students had to blend and mix colors, and learn how to apply different amounts of pressure to create a desired value. Mrs. T showed them how to layer their colors, if they had to use one that they didn't already have. She also did a demonstration of how to make the background fade.
The students were all at different stages of the project, so I was able to help with a lot of different things. Some students were still in the drawing process, trying to match the cartoon to the grid they had on their large paper. When I was helping students during the drawing stage, I told them to turn the comic strip and their paper upside down and draw it that way. It seemed that a lot of the students were drawing their frames how they thought it should look, or how they wanted it to, instead of what it really looked like on the comic strip. This way, they would be more focused on drawing shapes than an image. Some of them tried it for a little bit but got frustrated and turned them the right side up and others ignored me and didn't try at all. I wasn't sure if suggesting that approach would be too much over their heads, but at least one of the students seemed to find it useful. Maybe they were pretending.
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