A great lesson for me

It was so inspiring to see you guys outside of the classrooms in a complete different mode, you made my day when i saw you talking to everyone, when you were sharing your talents, when you took some of your time to make an amazing day for these guys recovering from drug addiction.

I got a great lesson, as at times you get on my nerves, this time all of you were incredibly generous from your heart. Thank you for making the last day of class such an amazing day. MUCH RESPECT

Happy Holidays

In our last episode of this semester, we learned about pop art sculpture and with it, we designed Christmas decoration for our classroom , KIDROBOT templates, an amazing art expression that started up in NYC with small scale dolls or models that are basically plain canvases in 3d.

Understanding NOT memorizing

 Measuring and using rulers or "primitive" tools as students see them, is not the best and most exciting thing for them to do. Adding numbers or operations makes them feel like they are actually going into a math or geometry class, but when it comes to drive the activity as "puzzle" or as a connecting lines through following points, the calculations and measurements become a quick common sense conclusion.
And that's the idea, THE UNDERSTANDING, NOT THE MEMORIZING OR THE SYSTEMATICAL WAY OF LEARNING.

More than just a doddle

 As we develop creative projects and we deal with materials and techniques, we also support our learning process with history. Students have a hard time to place timelines and coexisting historical figures. Imagery helps them to analyze objects and clothes even tools or materials and it makes it easy for them to set time and space.

 It's not about tracing sugar skulls or celebrating Dia de Muertos, it's more than that. It is actually digging into the roots of those events that we collaborate with a creative proposal.

 Being a high school student and never ever been introduce to basic culture, can have repercussions in the near future. Knowing even just the surface of certain topics can build criteria and personality.

It's pretty great when they recognize things that they always saw but they never analyzed. Quite fascinating when even those who seem to be less oriented or focus, they can also give or find their own perspective.

Emotional Intelligence

This is an important part of this dynamic, subject, workshop, experiment, what ever you want to call it. Teenage is a rough phase, introverts, extroverts, dominants, or timid personalities find hard to get along with each other.
In this case, Jorge is a quiet dedicated students and Obed is an explosive quite hyperactive dude, however discovering talents and skills makes them unite, and the recognition from each other gives them a breaking walls to share feedback and criticism.

Composition

Composition is a complicated topic, and generating an illustration with elements that can create contrast and being inspired by an actual event, such as the Mexican earthquake or the massacre in Vegas at the Country Music concert, can also make students to connect reality and portray it with a series of elements and forms.



Sarcasm, it's a an essential element for political cartoons or satirical illustrations however there must be a line of respect and sympathy. This exercises can also bring awareness of either positive or negative in events of the every day life.

Two Point Perspective

 As predictable as it could be,  the two point perspective has to be a second part of a perspective drawing.

 The understanding  of a VANISHING POINT function, and then  the possibility of projecting from two of them adds up a challenge and an accomplishment.

High school students play video games and they like animations where perspective drawings are often seen in any of these two platforms. For them to understand and perceive the concepts makes them be more critical and more analytical.