Materials Needed:
– Paper — construction paper, printing paper, cardstock, paper bag paper — any of these
– Old magazines, photos, decorative papers if you have them
– Scissors
– Glue or tape or stapler
– Pencil
– Color pencils, markers or crayons
– (Optional: any items made in previous lessons such as journals, dolls, cars or houses)
Vocabulary
Storyboard — a visual mapping out of a story or sequence using frames like in comics
Thumbnail sketch — a quick, usually small drawing, made to plan out an idea or image
Gesture drawing — a quick, loose drawing made to capture basic form and express movement
Foreground — the part of a scene nearest to the observer
Background — the part of a picture or scene that seems to be farthest away