Toon Lists

The list of Cartoon drawings we’ve done so far, and which we’re going to do next, as well as the instructions and expectations I’ve given (each are worth 4 points). Remember, these drawings are “progressive,” meaning that the skills from beginning to end use the skills from the previous one on the list, so don’t begin the most recent assignments before completing the list – in order. Link to Google Doc with Step-by-Step Warm-Up Drawing Videos

• Drawing #1: Boy, face, front-view (4 points)

• Drawing #2: Girl, face, front-view (4 points)

• Drawing #3: “The Bully,” face, front-view (4 points)

• Drawing #4: Boy, face, side-view (4 points)

• Drawing #5: Girl, face, side-view (4 points)

• Drawing #6: “The Bully,” face, side-view (4 points)

• Drawing #7: Boy, full-body #1 (4 points)

• Drawing #8: Boy, full-body #2 (simpler) (4 points)

• Drawing #9: Girl, kicking a soccer ball (4 points)

• Drawing #10: Boy, goalie, trying to block a shot (4 points)

• Drawing #11: “Slam-Dunk” (4 points)

• Drawing #12: Trojan #1 (4 points)

• Drawings #13 - 17: 5 different drawings of your Spirit animal (10 points)

• Drawing #18, is of your Spirit animal as a “mascot,” standing like a human, on two legs, without armor. (It’s o.k. if you already added the armor). (4 points)

• The Trojan Armor handout: 10 pieces, drawn separately (4 points)

• Drawings 20, 21 and 22 are of your spirit animal kicking a soccer ball, trying to block the goal and slam-dunking a basketball (using the position from #s 9, 10 and 11). These are drawn WITHOUT the armor (12 points)

• Drawings 23, 24 and 25 are the same, but WITH the armor. (12 points)

• Website, including 4 pages (Home, Sketches, Portfolio & About Me). All pages except for the Home page have Google Slides Shows inserted, which have been shared with everyone at SDUSD. The Home page has the text from the sample Site copied, pasted and changed with YOUR info and links. (14 points)

Mr. Wing's reminder to himself: Keep It Simple, Student (And yes, I still think of myself as a student...) (like Sandra Boynton), "100+ Character Model Sheets from Animated Movies," Preston Blair: Animation Resources, Character Design Model Sheets (Pinterest), or Cartoon Mascot Illustrations on etsy.com -- or a little more complex, like this site for Animated Character Design References. Then there are my two Pinterest pages, CaptivArting & Jay_Wing. You might not have access to Pinterest at school, but you should be able to see it at home.

Hard to believe, but there's a field of study called, "Mascotology," which ought to inspire us to draw more mascots, to sell mascot art for tee shirts and other imprinted items (greeting cards, coffee mugs, calendars, ect.)  to various high schools, colleges, universities -- or directly to the public, to those who attended these various institutions, but now work in industry (which is a whole larger community of potential clients).

One of my Cartooning "Heroes" is a professional named Ron Leishman. For the past several decades he's sat at home in his studio creating and selling "Microstock," (also known as Clip Art, or Stock Illustration), to multiple professional stock illustration sites, as well in the service I subscribed to for a few years, wherein Ron emailed a new "royalty-free" cartoon to customers, for 10¢ a day (I think it's now 10¢). His site is still going strong and is called, "Toon-a-Day.com." The links below marked, "R.L." are links to his samples of as many of these totem/spirit animals as I could find using Google image search. Ron's service is one of the inspirations for me becoming a Teacher, to train the next generation of Cartoonists how to create and sell their work, following Ron's example. Here's a link to Ron's Pinterest page. And here's my Pinterest. Ron's TpT site.