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| This is one of my favourite places. Why? Because I am quite creative, and I love drawing, painting, inventing,... using my creativity. Welcome, and join me with my artistic experiments.

| ORIGAMI is a Japanese word that means FOLD PAPER. Origami probably comes from China, because paper was invented there. Then it was taken to Japan. There, it was used only in ceremonies, as paper was very expensive. It is a very old tradition, maybe around 2000 years old. I LOVE ORIGAMI!!!! And I am always making animals, spaceships, houses, and everything. Have a look at the videos. You can learn how to make an ichthyosaurus and also a spaceship.

LEARN MORE, AND PRACTISE:

- http://www.kidsgen.com/hobbies/origami.htm
- http://www.hellokids.com/r_1028/videos-for-kids/how-to-videos/origami-how-to-videos
- http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-for-kids.html
- http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/origami

ANIMALS AND PEOPLE
We look like animals. And animals look like people. This is a funny game. Draw people who are similar to these animals. Pay special attention to their personalities. here you have two examples:
DESIGNING CHARACTERS
When we design a character, we must draw the face lines before. Then it is easy to draw eyes, noses, mouths, ears, hair, ears, glasses, beards, moustaches, etc. etc.
Do you want to practise?
CREATION PROCESS OF A COMIC STORY
I am always drawing, and creating characters and stories. My uncle Declan is an illustrator, and I think I am similar to him. We both like telling stories with pictures.
This is the process to create a page of a comic story:
1. I create the story, and the characters. I write it on a paper.
2. I draw the boxes and bubbles with my pencil.
3. I draw it again in ink.
4. I colour it. Sometimes I use my computer.
HERE IS THE BLACK AND WHITE PAGE. COLOUR IT, AND INVENT NEW DIALOGUES.

Listen to this song, called "VINCENT", by Don McLean. Then you can do two things: 1. Sing it and enjoy it. 2. Choose some part and DRAW it, PAINT it. | "Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)" Don McLean Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land Now I understand What you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now Starry, starry night Flaming flowers that brightly blaze Swirling clouds in violet haze Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue Colors changing hue Morning fields of amber grain Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand Now I understand What you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now For they could not love you But still your love was true And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night You took your life, as lovers often do But I could've told you Vincent This world was never meant for One as beautiful as you Starry, starry night Portraits hung in empty halls Frame-less heads on nameless walls With eyes that watch the world and can't forget Like the strangers that you've met The ragged men in ragged clothes The silver thorn of bloody rose Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow Now I think I know What you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they're not listening still Perhaps they never will

CINEMA SHOTS
Shots ("planos", in Galician en Spanish), are very useful for cinema and comic.
Here you have an explanation of them all.
Have a look at them, and then play this game:
TAKE ONE CAMERA (OR MOBILE PHONE), AND MAKE A PHOTO OF ALL THE SHOTS.
You can do it with your friends, your family, etc.

STOP-MOTION is an animation technique to create films easily. Look at the pictures on the right. They are simple photographs that I made at home. Then you put them together, one after the other, very quickly. And they seem to move!!! Watch the video bellow: |

ASK YOUR TEACHERS OR PARENTS FOR HELP, AND CREATE
YOUR OWN STOP-MOTION VIDEO
BEHIND THE LINES
Behind these lines there are stories. Can you imagine them? Can you draw them?
CHECK HOW CREATIVE YOU ARE:
DO YOU LIKE FILMS?
HOW OFTEN DO YOU GO TO THE CINEMA?
DO YOU KNOW THE NAME OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN A FILM?
WHO IS WHO?
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