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ASSIGNMENT

PLEASE DRAW 10 EXPRESSIVE ANATOMY FACES DEPICTING EMOTIONS OF WORDS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

Today in class, attempt to communicate the face for the expression. These two handouts will help you get ideas. You can also work in pairs of 2 -3 where someone acts out the expression while the other two students attempt to depict the emotion.

If you don't know what a word means, consult a dictionary.

At the end of class, students may free draw, but their free draw must illustrate a specific emotion.

You will be sharing a sketchbook with a student in the B class! Flip your sketchbook over to see their work at the end of the sketchbook! Observing the work of your peers will help you grow as an anime artist.

ARTIST TO LOOK AT



Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes Collection is a brilliant comic series that focuses on drawing in an iconic style, but with lush impressionist inspired watercolors and india ink drawings. Watterson never draws more than is necessary, occasionally completely ignoring environment.


Bill Watterson only draws what is necessary to tell a story. Notice how the environment is only depicted in the first panel. Watterson draws minimistically and iconically; this is because he is what is called a "cartoonist", a drawers of "whimsical pictures" in Japanese (Manga).

Observe the Calvin and Hobbes books and see how Calvin's emotions change and what is being "Said". After you are done drawing 20 new expressions, attempt to use 3 expression to tell a 3 part story.

You don not have to draw "well" to do a great job on this assignment. I am not looking for a depiction of reality. I am looking for you to communicate a three part little story using 3 expressions in each box.

The expressions CANNOT be:

happy
sad
angry

Use a new word learned from the faces or from looking at manga, Calvin and Hobbes, etc.