Found this forgotten carded set of 24
Sharpie Permanent Markers while cleaning out some old boxes, so spent some time doodling with them this evening.
Naturally had to try doodling a dragon on the included canvas bag.
Might used this custom decorated canvas bag as a prize in one of the cartooning classes.
Got this
RoseArt Color Blanks 2-pack on clearance at
Target, and thought that it would be a fun project to customize them with the set of 24
Sharpie Permanent Markers
Considered briefly to make a ninja in the planning stages, but ended up laying down the coloring outlines for a dual-headed monster instead.
Found the included mini permanent markers to be rather dull, so used mostly the
Sharpie permanent markers to decorate the first
Color Blank figurine.
"
Altered Beast" head and rear view.
Pretty happy with the "
Creature of the Black Lagoon". Fun activity for a rainy day. Just take adequate precautions to protect furniture from the permanent inks.
Recommended.
This is a sample of the works in progress by students in the first Cartoon Sketching week-long course of ARTScool 2011 at The von Liebig Art Center. Each student started the creation of their own cartoon character using one of the Color Blank figurines. Full photo coverage available in my Flickr photostream: photo 1 through photo 17.
There were plenty of coloring activities to exercise eye-hand coordination and encourage the creative use of color.
Students also worked on basic construction of cartoon faces.
Students had a choice of partial sketches drawn on ledger size sheets (11" x 17" card stock) that they had to complete with foreground, middle ground, and background elements using graphite pencil. Then they were also provided with Sakura Pigma Sensei archival markers and Sharpie markers to ink and color their finished illustrations.
Students already started working on the coloring of their first pop-up card project of the week.
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