Drawing Animation
June 9, 2008Drawing Animation, originally uploaded by Fortismere Art & Photography Department.
Animations provide an excellent way of bringing drawings alive. This animation was done by a Year 13 student studying Applied Art & Design.
In order to get more children enjoying drawing, it might be best to move away from the 19th Century concept of Still Life drawing and painting and towards more applied method of drawing such as using drawing instead of images to make an animation.
I used to work with the Campaign for Drawing, which champions the uses and relevance of drawing. They set up the Big Draw events, which have now been adopted across the UK and Eileen Adams, who runs the Education programme, has produced some interesting literature.
Tags: animation, Fortismere
June 16th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I really like the animation Zek. Thanks for the link to Campaign for Drawing. Chris and I were talking about it on Friday and are thinking about running some digital drawing activities in October to make immediate exhibitions. This would involve day and extended day activities – are you interested in helping? By the way Susan Kambalu has asked me to look into running a teachmeet at the CLC, what do you think?
June 16th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Glad you liked it. When you say digital drawing activities, do you mean animations using a wacom tablet? We can discuss it on Thursday. A teachmeet would be a great idea – I’m sure Ewan McIntosh would be happy to discuss the concept with you. The one in Redbridge worked well – it might be good to target creative departments instead of just ICT!
June 16th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Sounds great – we do need to talk re teach meet. As far as the campaign for drawing is concerned we thought about drawing in different ways -graphics tablets, pda’s, digi memo’s and also using a variety of web 2.0 tools like sketch cast and software like Art Rage etc.
I would like to get an Artist in during the day and set challenges or have themes in the extended day activities. I enjoy art but I’m not an artist so any help would be gratefully received………