tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45560999044497259802024-03-13T06:22:38.365-07:00Panel DiscussionThe art of Andrew WalesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.comBlogger483125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-72747852487306773682017-12-26T16:27:00.001-08:002017-12-26T16:36:17.139-08:00King Lear -- Act 1, Scene 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my entry for the 2nd annual Graphic Shakespeare Competition. Artists from all over the world respond to the challenge to illustrate any scene from a Shakespeare play in 8 pages. I choose to use the original language, but my goal is to try to use the cartoon imagery in a way that makes the meaning plain. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-74555218118636803852017-07-18T18:20:00.001-07:002017-07-20T17:58:03.557-07:00Sketchnotes & Comics Workshop for Students & Teachers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently I've had the pleasure of presenting workshops for teachers and kids on Sketchnotes and Comics. After an introductory presentation last week for teachers, we tried it with kids today at the Endless Mountains Writing Project camp for youth -- <i>Writing with Power!</i><br />
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We've heard for years that the use of <a href="https://k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com/tlb/why-use-graphic-organizers-in-the-classroom/" target="_blank">graphic organizers</a> is an effective research-based teaching strategy. Both sketchnotes and comics provide simple tools students can use to create their own graphic organizers as they listen and learn.<br />
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We looked at some of the sketchnotes and tips from master sketchnoters Mike Rohde and others. As I presented information, ideas and tips, students made their own first page of sketchnotes. Many teachers also tried their hand at making their first page of sketchnotes.<br />
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<a href="http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1882127,00.html" target="_blank">Studies have found</a> that even if you're just doodling while you're listening, you'll remember more. Better yet, let's take advantage of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-krum/the-key-to-infographic-ma_b_6510744.html" target="_blank">Picture Superiority Effect</a>, which demonstrates that pictures combined with text promotes significantly better memory retention.<br />
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In this post are a few of the first sketchnotes created by students (and a teacher) as they constructed their own visuals that illustrated concepts being presented.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-83023440217220937452017-06-08T12:16:00.000-07:002017-06-08T12:16:23.502-07:00Beowulf Comics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My interest in <i>Beowulf </i>began with my interest in Tolkien. I've long been a fan of his well-known works (<i>LotR</i>, <i>Hobbit</i>), but have been following up with some of his work that is harder to read (<i>Silmarillion</i>, <i>Unfinished Tales, History of Middle-Earth</i>). These aren't as immediately accessible as his other work, but I find that as I work through them and study them, my understanding and appreciation of his work grows. My goal is to read everything written by Tolkien, including his academic writing, so I began his <i>Translation and Commentary of Beowulf</i>. Again, this is not a work to breeze through, but I have enjoyed reading and rereading, and making notes as I read. For me this also includes drawing!</div>
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If you know me at all, you know that's how I think and process information. I've also noticed that my eleventh graders come to art class talking about Beowulf as assigned reading. I hope that my example of visualizing and illustrating selected passages encourages them to approach their reading in a similar way. </div>
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I'm experimenting with a different style of "coloring" -- using pencil shading techniques over a line drawing. </div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-38195012317967252132017-01-31T09:48:00.002-08:002017-01-31T09:49:43.166-08:00Grit & Growth Mindset SketchnotesEver since I was a high school student in the 80s, I found that it was much easier to pay attention during lectures and remember what was said if I drew as I listened. Usually, for me that means cartoons! Years later I discover Sketchnotes and a whole <a href="http://sketchnotearmy.com/" target="_blank">Sketchnote Army</a> of likeminded individuals. I created these sketchnotes live during a presentation on Grit and Growth Mindset at our teacher inservice day.<br />
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I made this 14 page comic for a contest sponsored by Comics Workbook magazine. The challenge was to create a 14 page comic with two covers, consisting only of nine panel pages -- each panel the same size. There's nothing like a deadline to get you moving. Amazingly, I finished this start to finish in one week! I think I broke all personal records for speed drawing. It occurred to me that I could do roughly one page each for each step in the Hero's Journey. It is <i>Hero with a Thousand Faces</i> -- Walesified. </div>
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This is my contribution to an anthology. I enjoyed this formalist experiment, using the rows of panels to represent different dimensions and showing what happens "when worlds collide." Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-9779869136690601642015-08-01T10:40:00.003-07:002015-08-01T10:40:53.159-07:00Doubts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I was a kid, I spent hours studying the work of my hero, Sergio Aragones. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-69964439795837814102015-02-12T17:53:00.004-08:002015-02-12T17:53:56.372-08:00Learning to Look at Art"What is the benefit in engaging in the process of art criticism?" In
Art 6, the first artwork we look at is "Masterpiece" by Roy
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In my interactions with my imaginary sage and mentor, Halcolm (pronounced "How Come?"), I have observed many changes in his countenance. He is at times responsive, at times chagrined with his disciples, but always present and definitive.<br />
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One of my challenges to my Art 6 class is to create a cartoon character, and then draw that same character with many different facial expressions. Occasionally, I do one along with them of one of my characters. Some sprang instantly to mind, and then I went back through the comic strips he appeared in and made sketches of significant ones. It is interesting that there are some expressions your character would not have -- because it would be out of character!<br />
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I first experimented with this exercise using the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cartooning-Head-Figure-Jack-Hamm/dp/0399508031" target="_blank">Cartooning the Head and Figure</a> by Jack Hamm. It's a classic, a book I've returned to again and again since I bought it as a teenager. I've since created my own guide for students to refer to. I encourage them to look at the work of others to see how artists simplified, exaggerated, and used simple lines and symbols to represent a specific emotion. When we think of an emotion not shown on our guide, we ask a friend to pose for us.<br />
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Challenge: Try it! Create a character. Draw the same character 12-16 times. Try to keep the basic structure of the character the same, but with distinctly different emotions each time.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-47514963817629267852015-01-05T10:09:00.000-08:002015-01-05T10:09:23.752-08:00The Toast Principle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-62976369315932606942014-12-01T14:04:00.001-08:002014-12-15T18:40:50.232-08:00Halcolm comics in print!Today I received my copy of a book that features nine of my comic strips -- <i>Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods</i> (Patton, 2014). This is a project I'm proud to be a part of. The story of my involvement is interesting.<br />
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I was taking a course on Qualitative Research, and the earlier edition of this book was the textbook. I was in the middle of a doctoral program, and as soon as I began reading the book, I noticed there was something that made it much different than every other textbook I had ever read. Though it is full of important information about research methods, the author, Michael Q. Patton also gets points across by telling stories. The tales are often funny, and in the form of parables. <br />
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Imagine that! A teacher who teaches through stories and humor. After reading and writing pages and pages of dry, factual "scholarly" writing, this book was like an oasis in the desert.<br />
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One of my favorite features are the Parables of Halcolm (pronounced "How Come?"). Often when I read, I can visualize what it would look like as a comic strip. I couldn't resist quickly sketching it out, and turning it into a comic strip. I liked how it looked, and thought about sending it to the author. I couldn't find an email, so I Facebook-friended him, then sent a message. He liked it and asked to include it in the next edition of the text.<br />
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There's something that's positively 21st century about this story. Here I was taking a course, Facebook friends with the author of the course text, and contributing to the next edition of the text!<br />
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Eventually, I was asked to illustrate eight more of the parables. Each chapter concludes with a two or three page Halcolm parable, like a "meditation" on the theme of the preceding chapter. <br />
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Below is one of the Halcolm comic strips. A link to the rest of them are <a href="http://www.andrewwales.blogspot.com/search/label/Halcolm" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-33727543377893809932014-11-09T17:54:00.001-08:002014-11-09T17:54:06.003-08:00How do Artistic Ideas Emerge? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"How do artistic ideas emerge?"<br />
This is a drawing I did to illustrate the National Core Art Standard: <br />
Demonstrate willlingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to
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I also created a worksheet for students to complete as they worked on this project. If you are curious to see it, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lfxJEgRqxICkacpdgNvSwo0ng1cB1aQx2vUE39ViMRg/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here </a>it is. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-86086932569020634542014-08-07T11:08:00.001-07:002014-08-07T11:08:25.604-07:00More Zen~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Saturday I had the pleasure of presenting a workshop at the Mansfield University Summer Gateway retreat at the Thousand Hills Center. These are students who will be freshmen in the fall. The weekend was about literacy of all kinds. I presented a workshop on comics.<br />
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I started by asking them to write down the first ten words they thought of when I said "Comics". Like most people, they thought of words like: funny, short, superheroes, Stan Lee, and so on.<br />
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I had brought with me a big tub of comics of all kinds: comics diaries, journalism, graphic narratives, and so many different types. Then we had a discussion about the unexpected discoveries they made about the types of stories comics can tell.<br />
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No workshop like this is complete without giving it a try! Everybody tried their hand at making a one page comic strip. My challenge to them was to think of the last thing that happened to them that made them laugh. That is the punchline, now -- what do you have to show us so that we can "get" the joke. How many panels will you have to draw. Students of every conceivable major were there and they were very open-minded and a good sport about it. And, some of them were hi-larious!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-86843843570774925662014-07-12T11:54:00.002-07:002014-07-12T11:54:20.340-07:00Vision<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This comic is my visual interpretation of some passages from <i>The Artist's Way</i> by Julia Cameron. Occasionally, you see yourself in someone else's story, and these are the images I see when I read these words. </div>
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Comics is an art form that anyone can be part of. One of my favorite kind to make are "diary comics." You can make them too! Will you make a lot of money? Will you make the big time? Probably not. So why do I do it? I can capture moments like this. Things I've experienced and cherish and always want to remember. I have it, and my son has it, and will have it forever. <br />
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It is art that comes from your life, and you can share it if you want. One of the comics greats said, "Drawing is a medium to communicate with the great family we have not met, the public, the world." (Moebius). Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-72797513331716475822014-06-10T14:53:00.000-07:002014-06-10T14:54:12.097-07:00Comic Art Comes Alive!<span class="userContent">My daughter and I are co-curating a show of original comic art in a gallery setting. We want to
take the viewer "behind the scenes" of the comic book with a display of
original comic art. In an act of extreme generosity,<span class="text_exposed_show">
several collectors are sharing their original pages of Star Wars,
Batman, and other comic books. Local comic creators will also share
their work, as well as some kid comics! Our reception should be a
blast! It will be more like a "mini-comic con" than a typical
reception. We are going to totally nerd it up in an art gallery
setting, with artists making sketches, selling comics and costumed
heroes cavorting around. </span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Reception: July 6:00, 2-4 pm. </span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-25850186219324935782014-06-07T15:56:00.001-07:002014-06-07T15:56:42.721-07:00Sketch DailiesI have been participating in a daily sketch challenge called Sketch Dailies. Each day around noon they post the topic for the day -- usually a character from literature or pop culture. Then artists from all over render the character in their own way. I've taken it as a challenge to try to "Walesify" things I probably wouldn't otherwise darw -- and at the same time learn some things from the research I do into the characters. Here are some of the things I've created in response to the various challenges. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iron Fist</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-45a3B_JWUxI/U5OTK5FpX0I/AAAAAAAAD-Q/lr-ytruSXZk/s1600/LinkColorSmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-45a3B_JWUxI/U5OTK5FpX0I/AAAAAAAAD-Q/lr-ytruSXZk/s1600/LinkColorSmall.jpg" height="400" width="297" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Link</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j2_lxnYbJx4/U5OTT391gfI/AAAAAAAAD-Y/LvkLYJsLM-4/s1600/MarioSmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j2_lxnYbJx4/U5OTT391gfI/AAAAAAAAD-Y/LvkLYJsLM-4/s1600/MarioSmall.jpg" height="400" width="302" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mario</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pQqfOZDwr1c/U5OTZEB8guI/AAAAAAAAD-g/xp8uqF0BMHw/s1600/Shipwreck2+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pQqfOZDwr1c/U5OTZEB8guI/AAAAAAAAD-g/xp8uqF0BMHw/s1600/Shipwreck2+copy.jpg" height="400" width="303" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shipwreck (G.I.Joe)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weekend Catch Up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wolverine</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goliath</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weekend Catch Up</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-63194502014236758062014-06-07T12:15:00.001-07:002014-06-07T12:15:42.459-07:00Contraption<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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