If you do not know what to do with your child, try drawing a cartoon with him. By giving your kid an elementary idea of creating cartoons, you will provide yourself with free time, and your child will have an interesting business.
It is necessary
- - notebook;
- - a simple pencil;
- - colored pencils or paints.
Instructions
Step 1
About twenty or thirty years ago, one could find an interesting toy on store shelves - a movie camera, consisting of three main parts: a small window for viewing a film strip, a handle for scrolling the film and the tape itself, on which there were a lot of almost identical frames. But as soon as you put the film into the projector and start scrolling it, a real cartoon appeared in the window. You can create something similar to a cartoon at home. And rest assured that this activity will appeal to your baby.
Step 2
Do not forget to inform your child that animation is a truly difficult and painstaking activity. For a cartoon character to perform the simplest movement, it takes about a hundred drawings. And for a ten-minute video, about fifteen thousand frames are needed. However, the kid himself, having plunged into the process, will understand how laborious it is.
Step 3
To draw an elementary cartoon, prepare the necessary tools - a notebook and pencils. Decide in advance what your character will be like and what actions he will perform. It can be any fairytale hero, animal or ordinary man. For example, in your cartoon, he will raise and lower his arms. After you imagine what the character in your movie will do, you can start creating a cartoon.
Step 4
To do this, take a notebook and on its first page draw the opening frame of the cartoon plot: your character is holding his hand down. On the next page, the hand goes up a little. On the third, the hand is even higher. Etc. Drawings should consistently depict each movement of the character. To be as accurate as possible, have your child slowly depict the character's actions. And you will fix his movements at this time. Or you can switch roles: you pose, the child draws.
Step 5
The middle page of the notebook should show hands raised up. The ending frame of the cartoon reflects the last action of the character. In this case, his hand should be down. Once you've mapped out the main moves for the hero, fill in the rest of the pages with intermediate positions. If you want your cartoon to be colored, paint the character with pencils or paints. Although for the first time, to show the principle of working on a cartoon, you can only get by with a simple pencil.
Step 6
When all the pictures are ready, start watching the cartoon. And then, as they say, a matter of technology. More precisely, the speed and dexterity of your hands. Start quick page change. To do this, hold the cover of the notebook in your right hand, and quickly flip through the pages with your left and look at what you have depicted. The drawings will change quickly, and the cartoon character will move.
Step 7
Then you can diversify your cartoon with additional plots. They are created in a similar way.
Step 8
You can also draw a cartoon on a narrow strip of paper. To do this, visually break the tape into frames, draw the first and last movement of the hero and supplement them with intermediate positions. You can start viewing such a cartoon with an ordinary fountain pen or pencil. Wind the paper around the pen and then quickly move it along the patterned tape. As you move the pen across the sheet, your character will come to life and will perform the movements you have drawn.
