Hoeben’s Blog

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.

I can see slideshare being a great way of getting students to prepare presentations in advance and cutting out the technical nightmare of them arriving to lessons with a corrupt or incompatible file. Here is an example of a presentation I created for my A-Level Photography students:

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