Turning Skeletons Into Flesh and Clothes People


Guiding Questions:
• How do we translate what we have learned about skeletons into everyday people?
o Where do we place
o Eyes
o Nose
o Mouth
o Hairline
o Ears?
• How do clothes hang on a skin and muscle body?

Objectives/Goals:
• Place facial features properly
• Accuracy of proportions
• Portrayal of the illusion of movement
• Neatness

Activities:
• Photograph each other pretending to do an athletic activity
• Discuss the differences between drawing skeletons and “flesh and clothes” people
• Make front covers for “Gift of Health” cards to be filled out in P.E.

Vocabulary:

• Camera Angle
• Wide-angle and Close-up
• Frame and Scale
• Composition
• Sequence—Photographs seem to freeze or stop each moment. When one photographs a sequence of key moments or movements, one can show the order in which the movements occur

Skeletons-In-Action

Guiding Questions:
• How does a skeleton move?
• What is scale?
• How does one draw a human skeleton in a scene?
• How does one draw a skeleton-in-action?


Objectives/Goals:
• Control of one’s lines
• Accuracy of shapes
• Accuracy of proportions
• Portrayal of the illusion of movement
• Neatness



Activities:
• Copy skeletons-in-action from handout
o 1 scene with 1 skeleton
o 1 scene with 2 skeletons
• Discuss shapes of bones
• Discuss proportion and ratio
• Discuss scale

Vocabulary:
• Scale
• Proportion
• Illusion