Storytelling through Comics

Project Description: Advanced Drawing students at Memorial High School told their stories through comics after several weeks of learning about comic tips and experimenting with visual storytelling techniques.

Concepts explored: Visual Storytelling

Techniques used: Drawing, inking

Materials: Paper, non-photo pencils, inking pens

Grades: 9th-12th

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K-5 Sequential Art

Project Description: Students created comics to tell their stories and learned how sequential art has been used throughout history to tell stories.

Concepts explored: Sequential Art

Techniques used: Drawing, coloring, inking

Materials: 9x12” paper, colored pencils, sharpies, pencils

Grades: K-5th grade

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Inside-Out Self-Portraits

Project Description: After listening to the read-aloud “Nico Draws a Feeling” by Bob Raczkya, students drew self-portraits that reflected the way they felt, not the way they looked.

Concepts explored: SEL, line, color psychology

Techniques used: Drawing, coloring

Materials: 8.5”x11” paper, markers, pencil

Grades: K-5th grade

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Community felt quilt inspired by the Quilts of Gee's Bend

Project Description: Each student created a felt quilt block inspired by the quilts of Gee’s Bend and the read-aloud of the book “Belle, the last mule at Gee’s Bend” by Calvin Alexander and Bettye Stroud. The middle school Fiber Arts class assembled the community quilt together by sewing each of the blocks by hand.

Concepts explored: Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, voting rights, quilt, balance (symmetry and asymmetry), color

Techniques used: Drawing, coloring, glueing, cutting, sewing

Materials: 4”x4” felt squares, colored pencils, scissors, tacky glue, needles, thread

Grades: 1st-8th grade

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