The first project I do in my digital drawing class is designed to do 5 things:
1. Teach kids technique for tracing
2. getting kids used to the Wacom Tablets
3. Getting students to practice their line quality
4. Student get to practice Zentangles
5. Training the brain to convert the way their hand eye coordination to the Wacom tablet from the typical drawing paper.
The program I use is Fire Alpaca which is free to download digital Drawing program, that is lighter than photoshop and easier for new artists to understand. I do teach at least 4 different programs, I do start with Fire Alpaca because I think it is the easiest to use.
If you are using iPads in your school, obviously Procreate is the best program, but in the free app world Metibang is a good free option.
The assignment:
1. choose an animal photo
2. Trace animal
3. Separate animal into at least 7 sections
4. Fill the section with at least 7 unique zentangle designs with focus on line size strength and line quality.
Examples of Student work.
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