Adapting an exercise from cartoonist and teacher, Ivan Brunetti, students in Lynda Barry’s “What It Is” class were asked to fold a sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper into a grid of 16 panels. The assignment was to draw four subjects four times on each sheet in the style of Ivan Brunetti or in a style that showed up on its own. Subjects could include character types like nuns and astronauts, animals, objects, or anything else students wanted to draw four times. The four drawings could be in a row or scattered across the page. They could be drawn four times exactly the same way, or they could be four views of the subject, or they could be the subject doing four different things.
Students used non-photo blue pencil to sketch the image in first, spending less than a minute on each panel. Then they ‘inked’ the images in with a black Flair pen. They were asked to complete three of these sheets, resulting in 48 drawings for each student and 1,248 drawings for the class.
“What It Is” class textbook: Ivan Brunetti’s “Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice”
Photos by Bucca, 4 of Hearts
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