Tag: student comics

  • Word Bag Comics

    This comic was made by a student who pulled the word “Stairs” from their Word Bag. In our class, the word bag is an envelope filled with little pieces of paper that have nouns written on them. This exercise asks you to start by drawing eight quick frames in your composition notebook, and then pull a random word from your word bag, and then you have about 40 minutes to make a comic about your relationship to that word. You must make the entire comic in one sitting. You’ll have about three minutes to write and draw each panel, and about fifteen minutes to add some quick color.

  • Struck by Cupid’s Arrow

    Two Three minute student attendance card drawings during Valentines week. Assignment: Draw yourself being struck by Cupid’s Arrow. Draw Cupid.

  • Classroom Character Jam

    These characters were drawn in 60 seconds. We started with a grid of 16 chambers on an 8.5 x 11 piece of copier paper that had a caption area at the bottom of each rectangle. We all used black Flair pens. First we passed around the pages, each of us writing something in the caption area like a personality type, or a proper name, or an occupation. We had just 15 seconds. When all the captions were filled, we passed the pages again, drawing a character based on the caption in 90 seconds and then passed the paper again. Each page features 16 characters drawn by 16 different classmates. It was an intense exercise that gave everyone 16 original characters to work with for later assignments.

  • Po-TAY-toes