Final Painting Assignment


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Drawing a Cartoon

For the second and final Paint assignment, you will be drawing a cartoon.
You will be using the same Paint program for this drawing as you did for the first one.

Specifically, you will be drawing one frame of a colour cartoon that has some special meaning to you. You can save one off the net, or scan it in using a scanner. I will need to see the original cartoon frame along with your drawing.

This cartoon needs to be saved in four stages like Paint Assignment One.

Make sure that you give credit to the artist that originally drew the image somewhere on your work.

Your drawing is going to be used later in a Word Processing assignment in Unit Five, so keep it on hand.

Hints

Use the zoom tool to get in close to the drawing and draw pixel by pixel.

Use the undo feature found in the edit area to redo a feature that you don't like, or undo a mistake you made.

You may want to use the grid method. The steps are shown below:

The example that will be used to show you this grid method is a picture of Digiko from the anime DiGi Charat.
The original art is by Doge Konbo.

First, print off a full page copy of the cartoon you are going to be drawing.
Draw lines horizontally and vertically on it so that it is divided into a workable amount of equal squares.

Next, open a new document in paint, and draw a grid of the same amount of equal-sized empty squares in your document. In the example, the red lines indicate the outermost squares that the picture reaches. Then, zoom in at 6x or 8x to each of the squares, and copy the details by looking back and forth from your computer screen to your printed original. Make sure to match up the details of each square with the others at the edges of the squares.

Put text that gives credit to the original artist somewhere on your drawing, such as in the bottom right corner. Now fill in the basic colors of your drawing using the Paint Can tool. When you click, the Paint Can fills in an entire area that is enclosed in black lines.

Next we put in some of the shading of the drawing, such as the different greens in the hair and the light blue shadows on the clothes of the example above. In this drawing, this is when black lines are drawn on the navy blue of the dress so that you can use the Paint Can to fill in certain areas with black, as shown in the following example.

Now we fill in the rest of the shading and carefully remove the black grid lines from the picture. Take extra time to work delicately on the most important parts of the picture, such as the eyes. The eyes are what give the picture life. You can now sign your drawing with your own signature.

Click here to see an image of a dragon done by a student, Amber Birns, using the same Paint program. Or click here to see a video on how Amber constructed the dragon. She used 6 times zoom to work on the image bit by bit. Check it out - you will be impressed! Amber's work clearly proves that it really is possible to draw anything you wish, as long as you take your time and do your best.

When you have completed this drawing, you will hand in the four stages and the original cartoon using the drop box.

The assignment name is Unit 4 Final Painting Assignment.

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