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Assignment
Assignment
A) Lesson #1
A) Lesson #1
Start here!
Start here!
Learn about how viewers are already preprogrammed to know a character's personality based upon their overall basic hape.
🔴Circle: positivity, peace, kindness, softness, safety, wholeness, happy, or weak
🟥Square: stability, dependability, discipline, strength, reliability, independent or disciplined
🔺Triangle: movement, deviation, sharp. Often used with villains to make them feel severe, unstable or dangerous.
Shapes can be altered & combined for more complex personalities.
B) Character Prompts
B) Character Prompts
After getting your random character prompt, begin with a dictionary and a thesaurus and find the meaning(s) behind descriptive words in your prompt.
In your sketchbooks, create your character while fully expressing the given prompts.
Draw the character three times: one with a circle base, one using a square base, and one using a triangle base shape.
C) Story Prompts
C) Story Prompts
STORY PROMPTS
Flashback: tell the story of a scar.
Your character discovers a corpse or a ghost.
Your character is heartbroken over a breakup.
Your character's deepest fear is holding them back in life. A mentor gives them the push they need to overcome their fears.
Your character comes into an unexpected fortune.
A disaster occurs.
The Quest: the protagonist (and companions?) set out to acquire an important object or to get to a location.
Zero to hero / rags to riches.
Tragedy: Hero to zero. The protagonist is a hero with a major character flaw or makes a great mistake which ultimately is their undoing.
Opposites attract.
How to structure a solid story:
Introduce characters and setting.
Set a GOAL for the protagonist. What do they want or need?
Or a situation/crisis changes their regular routine.
They face three obstacles/temptations along the way.
Resolution: questions are answered, lessons are learned.
D) Lesson #2
D) Lesson #2
Camera Angles help tell the story.
Camera Angles help tell the story.
Copy the lesson shown here in your sketchbooks.➡️
In your sketchbook, draw a rough sketch of your comic.
Consider camera angles to help the narrative.
Use a variety of panels and gutters in your comic. ⬇️
Think outside the box when you're planning comic panels and gutters! 😉
E) Lesson #3
E) Lesson #3
F) Good Copy
F) Good Copy
On good copy paper (12" x 18"), complete the underdrawing of your comic. Keep the pencil lines light so you can erase them later.
Choose an inking style and ink your comic.
Grey alcohol based markers are an option, but not mandatory.
White gel pens are also handy, but not essential.
Rubric - Original Comic.docxG) Examples of student work
G) Examples of student work
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