Molly Bang inspired exercises

Exercise 1:

Make a scary picture about a person being attacked by a big cat. Use only cut paper, no lines, no drawing, just paper and scissors. Use 3 colors plus white. Keep shapes simple as possible. Rearrange shapes, change them, experiment with the colors, scale, spatial relationships. Feel free to help one another.

• Questions to ask yourself:
• What is the essence of the person/cat I want to represent?
• What specific elements in this situation evoke strong feelings in me?
• How can I accentuate these?
• What feeling do I want to evoke with this picture?

Exercise 2:

Make a digital drawing of the same scene using a drawing tool of your choice. Use the same simple shapes and the same three colors. Use layers for moving things in front or behind. Make sure you set up your drawing so that you can easily move and resize all the elements. Once you have the image down, save it. Starting from this saved image play with the following changes individually and in combination. Save images that DO or DO NOT work for you:

• Make the shapes less simple, a bit more realistic.
• Experiment with color.
• Experiment with sizes and positioning.
• Create an animation of your scene. Does the animation evoke the same feeling? Is it scarier, or has it now become silly/trite?