Texture Comics, Part One (Rashi School Online Lesson)

Hello! This lesson is for my third graders at The Rashi School. Today you'll be using your texture-drawing skills to create comic book characters. Next week, we'll turn them into comic strips.

Here are some famous characters from the comics who you may know:

Snoopy, by Charles Schulz

Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

Garfield, by Jim Davis

You'll need:

-White Paper
-Pencil with eraser
-Black pen or Sharpie for outlining
-Something to color with

1. Look at the texture lines sheet to refresh your memories about how to draw textures:

2. Fold your paper into four parts. Using pencil, draw four characters with four different textures. Each should have a first name, a texture word, and a noun. For example: Sam the Scaly Snake. They don't have to have the same first letter, but that does sound nice. It's something called alliteration.

3. Go over your pencil lines with black pen or Sharpie. The outlining is what makes a cartoon look like a cartoon.  

4. Color them in and label them with their names: