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Let's Draw Animals Club!

Rather than trace a famous film or game animal, let's draw them based on real life animal photos. We'll study a new animal each class, then customize their colours! This is a great way to improve our drawing skills and meet new friends!
Michael Robson
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What's included

2 live meetings
1 hrs 30 mins in-class hours per week

Class Experience

This is a drawing class, where students will draw on a printed document (1 page, two sides, color or bw) in pencil, pen, and finally in pencil crayons/markers. 

Class Schedule:
Week of Jan 31: Cuddly Animals 
Week of Feb 7: Powerful Animals
Week of Feb 14: High Flyers 
Week of Feb 21: Underwater Animals 
Week of Feb 28: Insects and Arachnids 
Week of Mar 7: Big Cats
Week of Mar 14: Un-pet-worthy animals 
Week of Mar 21: Home Lovers

Class Details:
The class is composed of a PowerPoint section at the beginning, and a drawing section at the end. During the drawing section I will draw on my iPad, sharing the screen with the students.

After introducing myself to the class, I want to make sure they have all the drawing tools and a dice.

Next we’re going to learn about the animal in question; every class I’ll introduce some cool facts about our chosen animal (eg. Amazing things about Wolves). This allows us to chat about the animal and discuss before the drawing.

Next I will direct the students to their print out page (it can be color or black/white). On one side it has a photo of the animal and a dotted outline. This dotted outline will become the students’ colorful animal. On the other side of the page we have a grid, where we can practice drawing various animal parts (eg. Mouth, eyes, nose) before we do it on the real drawing.

Not only will we practice together, we will work together on the drawing and inking section. Up to this point, the students will all draw a similar drawing: a cartoon version of the animal in question! We’ll draw it in pen, then erase the underlying pencil sketch with a soft eraser.

There’s one more part - just for fun, we want the animal to have magic powers. As such, I’ve asked all students to bring a dice. I have one more PowerPoint slide that shares the Element value for each number 1-6 (eg. If a student rolls a 3, his monster is a Water type monster). This means he/she will use white/blue/green colors to color their unique animal!

Update: Starting Mar 29, we'll be providing even more fun in this class. 
Monday/Wednesday - Live Drawing Session
Tuesday - Writing prompt related to the animals
Thursday - Mad Libs fun game!
Friday - Crossword Simple + Advanced

Learning Goals

The goal here is to teach the students about drawing and build their confidence at a young age to embrace various characters they love and be proud of themselves at what they created. The goal here is CONFIDENCE, not perfection.

A secondary goal is to excite young learners about animals, learning amazing things about animals in the real world!
learning goal

Other Details

Parental Guidance
NA
Supply List
Learners should bring drawing materials:

Pencil, Eraser, Pencil Sharpener (optional)
Black Pen
Pencil Crayons or Pastels
One dice, used to roll and generate magic powers for the animal

They must also print out my handout document (one page, two sides) in black/white or color (I'll be updating it every few days to add the newest animal file)!
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
Any images are issued under CreativeCommons, so no copyrights are being misused here. :)
Joined December, 2020
5.0
25reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
There’s nothing sensitive about my classes. 

Experience-wise, I have been illustrating for years, and have studied Product Design and Interaction Design. I worked as a Digital Designer for the past five years and have had my digital illustrations in various websites/apps. If you want to see some of my digital portfolio, please review my website at MichaelRobson.ca.

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$10

weekly ($5 per class)
2x per week
45 min

Completed by 61 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 5-9
4-8 learners per class

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