One of the major highlights for me in a school week is my Digital Illustration co-curricular with Year 5 and 6 students. I have been running this co-curricular for 5 years and it has given me - and hopefully the participating children - a lot of joy over this time. As I am not currently a timetabled teacher, this weekly event is my creative haven.
We use the iPad app Procreate and I set a weekly exercise for children to work through - often structured, but always with levels of choice, and more freedom for those who are ready to be self-directed.
I have the opportunity to share a little more about my co-curricular and beginning to use Procreate at the Apple Education Community Summit in Sydney. For this workshop session, I have documented the attached resource (ePub will open with Books on your Apple devices). The booklet runs through some information about my co-curricular program, a sample term curriculum of weekly activities, as well as a step-by-step guide through a beginner level process to draw and then animate a bubble in Procreate.
If you're new to using Procreate, I hope you are able to follow along with my steps for illustration and animation, or you could start with The Creative Bix bubble tutorial, which helped me to get started. I added a few different steps and then animated my illustration.
These are my samples - firstly my bubble illustration and secondly, an Animated GIF:
Reach out if you are interested in hearing more, or sharing ideas about running a similar co-curricular activity.
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