Susie Xiong

ARTE302 - Delacruz

Time: every day for 45 minutes, 5 days a week for 9 weeks

Grades: 6th-12th

Objective: Students will survey a variety of artistic media, techniques, and concepts utilized to create
thematic content, culminating in a completed comic book. Themes and issues discussed will include, but
not be limited to emotion, point of view, propaganda, and challenging stereotypes.

Title Time Themes Resources Materials Skills/Vocabul Process/Wor Dialogue

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Perspective: 4 days Optical illusions Comic books Pencils 1-point Demonstrations What are some
beyond the Creating space, Renaissance Erasers 2-point In-class practice everyday
vanishing creating paintings Rulers 3-point Assigment: 2 examples of
point memories Movie White paper Foreshortening observational perspective?
storyboards Handouts Vanishing point sketches from How is perspective
M.C. Escher Horizon line life (hallway, used in the
Julian Beever Orthogonal room, park, examples to create
Panya Clark object), 2 a certain effect?
Espinal imaginary How does space
Edgar Mueller designs (dream create/evoke
Simon Schubert room, imaginary memory or
world, “safe feeling?
place”) How can you use
perspective in your
drawings for
certain effects?
(Flying high,
feeling cramped,
being lost, etc.)
It’s a bird, 4 days Observing the Vincent van Photoshop (if Atmospheric Go outside to What differences in
it’s a plane, world Gogh available) perspective observe objects do you
it’s aerial Expressing Georgia O’Keefe Collage Depth examples of notice as they get
perspective! emotion through National materials Color perspective further away?
art Geographic (paper, Mood Assignment: What are some
photography scrapbooking Background using either other visual
paper, tracing Middle ground Photoshop or phenomenon that
paper, Foreground manual means we take for
markers, Overlap (collage), create granted?
pencil, pens, Layering a scenery (not How do the
magazines, necessarily exemplars use
tissue paper, realistic) based color and
cutout shapes, on an emotion, perspective to set
stickers) using the various a mood?
types of What are some
perspective frequent emotions
taught. Students you feel these
will write a short days? What would
paragraph a space containing
explaining the these emotions
emotion, and look like?
how their artistic No pun intended,
choices were but how do you
made to convey feel about
that emotion. emotions? When
Students will are they
share their end appropriate and
result and try to when are they not?
guess each Why? Are there
other’s emotion. stereotypes
concerning
emotions? How
can we express
emotions in a
healthy manner?
Frame it 5 days Emotion Movies (Up, Movies on Composition Class will watch How does looking
right! Point of view Spiderman) DVD Bird’s eye various movie up an object affect
Subject/object Comics YouTube High angle clips, and cite your relationship
and the Advertisements Worksheet Eye level examples of the to it? Looking down
relationship to TV shows Handout Worm’s eye/low various framing on it? Being eye
 the Dorothea Lange Sketchbook angle techniques they level to it?
viewer/audience Carrie Mae Pencils Extreme long shot notice How do
Weems Erasers Long shot In their photographers,
Lola and Manuel Pens Middle shot sketchbook, animators, and
Alvaraz Bravo Coloring Close up students will cinematographers
Tadasuke pencils Extra close up draw/photograph use the shots and
Akiyama Markers Oblique/canted at least one angles to tell a
Ansel Adams Digital angle example of each narrative? To make
cameras (if Pan type of a point?
available) Tilt shot/angle, and What are some of
Dolly then create short your own personal
Zoom comic of at least narratives, or
3 frames narratives that
exemplifying you’ve heard
pan, tilt, dolly, about that can be
and zoom encapsulated into
a single shot, or a
series of shots?
How would the
composition affect
our understanding
of the narrative
and how we
sympathize with
the subjects?
In the eye of 5 days Personality Comic cover art Handout Human proportions Students will What can a portrait
the Prejudice Family photos Pencils How to render eyes, practice drawing tell us about a
beholder: Internal versus Chuck Close Erasers nose, lips, ears, each other using person? What can
Portraits external Maurice Bennett Pens hair, clothing, etc. blind contour so it not tell us? How
Catherine Rulers Grid method as to focus on can it mislead us?
Critcher Markers Scale details and How do we
Artemisia Coloring Portrait proportions. dress/act/speak in
Gentileschi Pencils Blind contour Assignment: certain ways to
Sarah Peale Pastel drawing choose a hero or intentionally
Frida Kahlo Charcoal role model in present a certain
Acrylic paint your life and image? What are
Watercolors draw a portrait of some common
Brushes him/her with the “images” you see
Cups medium/media in the media that
of your choice. make you see a
 Think carefully certain group of
about how you people a specific
want to frame way? (Hip-hop,
them, what sports, politics) Is
background, if it accurate to say
any, to put that all people with
behind them, similar
props, clothing, ethnic/cultural
expression, etc. backgrounds act
Write two the same as how
paragraphs: one the are commonly
explaining your portrayed? Why or
conscious artistic why not? What are
choices, and the dangers of
another giving over generalizing?
background on Why do people
the person that stereotype? How
the audience can we grow to
might have not appreciate the
otherwise differences that
gleaned from the make us unique?
portrait.
Quit 5 days Exaggeration Carnivals Mirrors Caricature Assignment: What are the
exaggeratin Stereotypes Editorials Pencils Line quality create a self- dangers of
g: Racism The New Yorker Erasers Contours caricature by prejudices and
Caricatures Propaganda Picasso Pens Value using a stereotypes? What
Hermann Mejia Rulers Color mirror/photograp are the differences
Sebastian Markers h and between the two?
Kruger Coloring medium/media What are some
Pencils of your choice. experiences you’ve
Pastel Focus on had with either?
Charcoal observing unique How and why do
or prominent we use
features and exaggeration in
proportions. Use our lives?
your preferred How is caricature
style to display used in politics and
your personality. propaganda?
Alternately, you How are the
can use subjects
 Photoshop’s exaggerated in the
smudge and editorials? What
distort tools to message does it
create a send? What
caricature, and aspects of the
draw from that. depiction allows us
to identify the
subject as a
specific person or
group of people?
You’re quite 5 days Stereotypes Cartoons Pencils Line Assigment: What makes a
the Gender roles Movies Erasers Value research, character
character Visual culture Animations Pens Scale conceptualize at interesting? Who
Racism Diane Arbus Rulers Modeling least 2 are some live
Racebending.co Markers Gesture characters “characters” that
m Coloring (remember, they you see everyday.
Pencils don’t have to be TV shows, family.
Pastel human!) What makes you or
Charcoal Anti-caricature: someone you know
Acrylic paint create a sketch unique? How can
Watercolors of an individual you convey certain
Brushes that defies a characteristics of
Cups common your characters
stereotype. without being
Visually and stereotypical?
verbally share (dress, action,
how this speech, build)
individual is What common
unique, and how motifs are used to
he/she/it makes identify a specific
you rethink how person or group of
you view others. people? Is it
always true to life?
How can art be
used to challenge
social issues such
as sexism and
racism?
Building up 5 days Gender roles Action figures Character Form Assignment: What other
and tearing Stereotypes of Collectibles sketches Negative, positive create at least “personal touches”
down: the hero Sculptures Sculpey space one can you add to
Sculpture Environmentalis Harriet Hosmer Plastic utensils Free-standing figurine/sculptur your character(s)
m Louise Working mats sculpture e of your that otherwise
Bourgeois Clay Assemblage character based would not be as
Terracotta Army Clay tools Relief on your sketches noticeable or
of Qin Dyanasty Additive and ideas. translate as well in
Henry Moore Reductive 2-D?
Totem poles Armature How does the
Stepan Erzia Plaster material used for
Edmonia Lewis Mold your
Kneading figurine/sculpture
Kiln affect its meaning?
Ceramic How can artists
use and reuse
materials not only
to stretch their
creative and
problem-solving
skills, but to help
the environment?
Comic 11 days Social issues Confidential Paper Character Students will What cartoons did
books: not Gender roles Confessions Thread Plot work the you/do you watch
just for kids Stereotypes With the Light Book glue Dialogue remainder of the as a kid? What are
Values American Born Thread Page layout unit on their some examples of
Culture Chinese Needles Theme/issue comic books, cartoons/comics/m
Barack the Bone folders Bookmaking creating anga/animations
Barbarian Hole punch Accordion fold storyboards, that are currently
Maus Pencils Pamphlet stitch setting up pages, popular? Why do
Persepolis Erasers sketching, and you think there are
Pixar sketches Colored finishing their “standard”
pencils products, and features to
Markers compiling their superheroes?
Acrylic paint pieces into some (Male, tall, bulging
Watercolor book format. A muscles) How can
paint class exhibition you challenge the
Brushes will follow, which standard hero
Cups will allow prototype? What
students to share are some
their finished “alternative”
products, and superpowers, or
look at each common human
others’ books. powers that can be
used in uncommon
ways? How do you
think portrayal of
racist images in
the media affect
people? Are people
just being too
sensitive about
things, or is there
a real concern?
What role do you
feel artists should
play in creating
and perpetuating
images? Are artists
responsible for the
ideas and values
they express? How
can we, as
informed audience
members, react to
art that is racist or
sexist?