next year:  microfinancing project (confidential)  and sport  or art club such as a baseball club or pottery club.

 created by

 basically = a personal small loan system to people who are asking for the loan in poor countries. it is not a charity! they pay back.

i would like to create an ISL FUND that gives them the loan money needed and gets paid back into the fund. in this case when people put money into this “pool” for them it is a donation. 

i would like to organize this myself or perhaps with a friend. but i’d like to be the chairman. this fund would grow continously as people put money in increasing the amount of people we can lend loans too. the loans are paid back without intrest btw.

every two years i would hold fund rasaing events in an attempt to increase the amount in this pool of money.  i would continue this project until i graduate when i would hand it over to a succesor who would hopefull continue as i did.

the loans are paid back from 1 year to 7 years and thus this is a long term project but i hope to have a large pool of money that can give loans to the people in need for a long time.

i will post details shortly

Daniel Riband, a student in Y10, is offering a Cartoon Club for students in Years 5 and 6. The aim of the club is to develop drawing skills and to learn about layout and the qualities needed to make a good cartoon. Students will work toward creating a final cartoon strip. These will then be put into a book which will be sold for charity.

The club will be held in the Secondary Art room, from 16.45 until 17.00, Daniel will collect the students outside the Primary library and will bring them to the reception area when the clubs ends.

It will start this Tuesday, 13^th March and run until the end of term. It will also be offered next term.

The club will be supervised by Mr Harrison.

If your child is interested in participating in the club please would you send me an email, with their name and class.

All the best

Nigel Goldsworthy

Decide what kind of comic strip you want to have

• What kind of format do you plan to use?A single panel per strip? Multi-panel? One of the advantages of a single panel strip is that it takes less drawing, but it means that each strip must be able to stand on its own. An advantage of using multi-panel strips is that you can have more of a storyline.
• What is the tone of your comic strip going to be?Will your comic be funny? Serious? Perhaps a mixture of both?

Decide on your main characters

It’s important to spend some time thinking about your main character or characters before you start your strip.  What are they like? What are their motivations? Make sketches of each character in different poses and with different expressions.  Make sure you like these characters, because you’ll be drawing them over and over again.

Another important part of the creation of a comic strip is figuring out how all the characters will interact, and what the character conflicts will be.  You need to have some conflicts; without them, your comic strip will be incredibly dull, no matter how impressive the artwork.

Come up with a story line

Next, you have to decide what is going to happen to your characters. Some comic strips have a continuing story line throughout several strips, while others have each “story” start and end in each strip. It can be a challenge to fit your story into a certain number of panels.

Whatever you do, think of a good story. Having some really cool or funny characters is great, but that alone won’t be enough to keep your audience reading.

Plan the layout

Once you have your characters and story line, you can start working on the layout, deciding what happens in each panel. On a separate sheet of paper, write out all the dialogue between characters.  Then decide what dialogue goes into each panel, and what actions.  Your comic script may look something like this:

PANEL 1
Igor stands in the living room with arms crossed, looking angry. IGOR THINKS:  I can’t believe what a terrible day this has been so far…

PANEL 2
Igor still looks angry, but the corners of his mouth are curling up a bit in an evil grin.
VOICE OFF CAMERA YELLS:  Hey, who’s been playing with my Collector’s Special Edition Star Wars action figures?

and so on…

Draw your strip

And finally, you get to draw your strip!  Sounds like obvious advice, but I’m going to say it anyway: if you’re working on paper (as opposed to a computer screen), use pencil first.

I create my comic strips on the computer using Painter and a Wacom Artpad.  Instead of hand-lettering the text, I type it into my comic using a keyboard.  For those wishing to opt for this route, there are many free comic book fonts available online; see the list of resources at the end of this article.

Good luck, and have fun!

supervision: Mr harrison.

location: mr nob’s Art room. (he has given me his permission)

my activity and curriculum. (need to print out and go into slight detail. especially with the first 2 lessons.)

my date: tuesdays (no questions asked)

all i need 2 do is talk to nigel goldsworthy about getting the club into existence…wicked!!!!

Who: Daniel riband.

what: Cartoon club for primary. years 3-6. max. 8 people.

carton cub will be a club where the first several lessons will be fun exercises and students will be able to develop their skills, create characters, learn about intresting plots and how to layout a cartoons. finally, will have the chance to put their cartoons into a book. that will be sold for charity around the school.

 where. secondary art room

why. service. selling book to charity.

when. tuesdays or if not thursdays.

problems and things that newed working out:

room. i need a room to use preferably in primary on tuesdays.

parental supervision. are there any teahcers in the area? do i neddm to have ateacher watching me? i need to talk 2 mr. McBride

club. i have to advertise it in the newsletter.

LESSON PLAN WEEKLY:

1st lesson

intruduction to charcters. different ways to create your characters. editing characters. different expressions. look up different characters vary as much as possible as examples. do some of your own

2nd lesson

plots. simple story lines. how to organize your expressions and actions on a stroyboard.

3rd lesson.

materials. colors. crayons. paint? spray paint.