Here is the start of another "Art Parent" hand out, for the grade school class.
Drawing robots with simple shapes....
Here is a possible cover....
The middle of the night bathroom visit, comes along with any camping trip.
And just like that the game was over....
Knocking down icicles! ...while the kids cheer me on.
The first few pitches...
I was the relief pitcher for my kids little league...I could nail those icicles easy...
Ice covering the windows...only one way to fix this...
Did a small "Mini Comic" this was an exercise with the kids. This really happened last winter.
Look for 8 panels in the next few days...
Here is the second layout test. Experimenting with layout and detail. Realizing how cropping and details can be much more effective than full view shots..
Here, again, is the original...
I have been posting a few panels about our summer camping trip over the past few weeks. Originally I liked the sketches, they were quick and a little crude but looked decent. After looking at a couple of very inspirational online graphics such as
by Jason Brubaker and some good pod casts from
I am trying to rethink the layout process....rendering light and dark in ink is still giving me trouble, still need to think less 3D and more graphic....
Here is page one of two for "After Dark"
Here is the original layout, that seemed a little boring...hope the above shows some improvement..
I reworked some of the different panels and modified the text a bit....hope it looks better...
This really happened to us this summer while camping...if you ever hear screams in the woods at night it just might be a Red Fox or a Bobcat....but it does sound human....
When you do find one, the kids use the stamp in the box to mark their notepads. We look to see who was there before us. We are starting to recognize some of the stamps from our previous finds.
One box in Ann Arbor had not been found for over a year. We found it!
We follow all the clues, but sometimes the boxes have been removed. Maybe gone for good, hard to tell. So we go onto the next one....
Our last search led us to a local old cemetery. We had to take turns looking for a number of hidden boxes. Spooky fun.
We have been doing "letter boxing" this summer with the kids...Letter boxing is like Geocaching for kids. Someone hides a notebook and an ink stamp in a secret location and post clues for other to find. If found, you stamp your own notebook with the found stamp and leave your mark in the hidden notepad. Be discrete and careful not to give out the secret location to onlookers.
I drew a few sketches after our last litter outing. ...will post these over the next few days.....
