Feedback request from students: if you remembered to take them home, please let me know your opinion on how well the
Pentel Hi-Polymer eraser samples work for you. Have a great school year and keep on drawing! You will only continue to improve as you continue sketching and using up your supplies.
Holding impromptu mini contests has proven to be a good way to motivate students to generate character desings within a set time limit.
Volunteers and students appreciating the monsters/character design entries.
"Winged Pegasus" was the prize chosen by the first place winner.
"Monkey in a diaper" was the second place prize for the character design contest and drawn in color upon request with Faber Castell Pitt Big Brush Artist Pens.
Sequential art pages created by gifted student.
Colorful work done with
watercolor pencils and a
waterbrush.
Crayola marker sketches.
Highly naturalistic work drawn by talented class volunteer.
A few pencil sketches.
Colored character and manga comic page.
Chibi people and cats & dogs.
Colored pencil sketch of a
Chibi ninja.
Pencil sketch of a
Xevoz soldier action figure.
Using a
Real Bug Chafer Beetle encased in resin for drawing reference.
A list with few suggestions for elements that could be included in their comic book covers.
Students hard at work.
Students with their colorful Manga comic book covers drawn with
watercolor pencils.
Happy siblings with their colorful pieces.
Bit of colored pencil work.
Castle drawn with
Sakura Pigma Sensei pigment liner pens.
Manga covers commenting on Mickey Mouse Corp.
A young artist quite content with his piece of "Screaming Vegetables" drawn with colored markers.
Students detailed dragon sketch was drawn with a
Faber Castell Pitt Artist brush pen.
Photo gallery of my final Cartoon Sketching class for ARTScool 2011 at The von Liebig Art Center. This group of boys and girls ranged in age from 6 to 11 years old.
Students had the opportunity to try a variety of coloring tools: markers, watercolor pencils, watercolor crayons, and even some soft pastels.
Drawing from reference Xevoz kits 
and fantasy chibi drawings from imagination.
Making a pop-up castle card.
Several students jumped at the opportunity to color the chibi animal characters from one of the class drawing demonstrations.
Hmm, perhaps coloring on the dry erase board should be part of the curriculum for future classes next summer.
Throughout the week all the students received several cartoon portraits and custom drawing requests as souvenirs or starting point for different inking and coloring projects.
Half of the students already got their PanPastel and Prismacolor Art Stix colored cartoon portraits, so I will complete the remaining later today. 
Thank you to all the students and interns that participated in one of my Cartoon Sketching classes this summer. 
With our impending move to North Carolina, this might just have been my last summer class at The von Liebig Art Center. It has been an honor working with all of you, and I hope that you will all continue to embrace your artistic side and keep on sketching and further developing your artistic skills. Keep on drawing and filling many sketchbooks!
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