My art classes create a lot of artwork during the year. They also show me artwork that they create outside of class such as doodles. I see how they use doodles to communicate daily. I never completely thought of doodling as an art form until I saw the sardonic and comedic work of Don Hertzfeldt in the animated video, Billy’s Balloon.
What doodling does is create a simple art form to convey a message. Doodling can also be used as a sketch or idea for final drawings. At the young age of 12 and 13, my students are still developing their hand-eye coordination. Doodling is simple and does not require any art skills.
I can better use this tool in my classroom by incorporating it with each assignment as a starting point or critique element used for communication through doodling. Students can send each other quick doodles commenting on each other’s art. It will be like sending notes in doodle form.
When students familiarize themselves a little more with Sketchfu, it can then be used as a starting point for animation and more complicated doodles. This is the main reason Sketchfu is a Web 2.0 tool of very high interest to me. I like seeing the student interest develop their drawing skills into more advanced criteria.
I think this is a great idea for class. Animation and anime' is something a lot of students are very interested in. This tool could be used for a whole project on animation. Developing a character, inventing a story line and working in a plot could be the basics for the project. This would be great for two students to work together. This would also be a great lesson on what an animator does. You could bring up Disney and the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for finding this tool!