With the help of José Alberto of IES Los Tarahales, I've come up with this PowerPoint presentation and worksheet which will help initiate students into the world of cartoon art. There are four exercises, the first of which guides the student in making a character out of a stick figure in four steps. In the worksheet, the student is expected to ...

The colours most widely known as the primary colours are red, green and blue. These are used, for example, in CRT displays, to make a wide range of other colours. In pigments and dye mixing, such as printing, however, the primary colours used are cyan, magenta and yellow. Mixing any two primary colours gives you a secondary colour: cyan + magenta ...

Further to the post on how to draw a face, we now learn how to draw basic facial expressions, inspired by the styles of cartoonists. First, watch the presentation, then practise on the worksheet. As usual, you can download these from Slideshare (.ppsx) or Scribd: PowerPoint (.pps) and worksheet. Faces: Drawing Basic Expressions View More ...

A picture paints a thousand words, a good picture, that is. I don't know if this presentation will be judged as good, but it contains a fair number of wonderful pictures to illustrate the world of textures and patterns. Be warned: this PowerPoint presentation is rather big (21 MB), but I hope you will agree that it's worth it. As usual, the ...