Week 4


Here's the link to the PowerPoint from Week 4!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/178GwQFStwf6ETikDceqB59m0ELmFOR3T/view?usp=sharing

By the way, this PowerPoint seems to be from an earlier version where I intended to add a video on Art Styles, but found it was too long. Instead, I drew this exercise on art styles based on the drawing styles of my friends and people I knew, and showed this instead, to show how much art styles can vary:

What Went Well:
Linking my lesson on art styles to notable and easily recognisable cartoons and comics that my students might watch/know of was a great idea. The art styles I used were really varied, in order to show the students that there were many different ways of making their own art look great.

Areas for Improvement: 
I didn't make this PowerPoint long enough, actually, so I had to improvise a discussion at the end and give the students a chance to practice their own drawings based off of what they'd seen. Next time, I will make my PowerPoint longer.

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