Naegel - HS Art block 5 on 10/20/26

I've gotten a couple emails, like in the past few weeks about it. So, as long as you can participate as you always do. I mean, I know I saw you yesterday with your camera on, but that would be excellent just cuz that's expectations, of course. All right, we need to go ahead and get started, Angela. >> Uh so, what happened is that when like yesterday when I was going to take the Picture of my drawing >> Yeah. >> like the camera was white. Does the camera and everything has been working normally? >> Yeah, cuz I

saw you yesterday with your camera. >> Yeah, it happened like after school. >> Okay. Um Right now, it just shows that it's not like being turned on for some reason. So, maybe we could look at why it's um doing that. Like I see it's turned on currently, um but I'm not sure like why you can't be seen in it unless something is covering it or if there's like a smudge over your camera which is very possible. But, um the rest of you, I need to see your face. Evan, I need to see your face. I

do not see you. Ashwan, I do not See your face as well. Taliyah and Ethan, um Mark, make sure that um you guys have your cameras on or you'll be running the risk of counting absent. So, you have about a minute to get your cameras down um so I can see you guys. Uh so, the rest of you guys, thank you for following those expectations every day. Appreciate it. Um icebreaker. This is going to tie into Our project. Which tiny world would you visit? Would you visit a tiny medieval kingdom inside of a jar? An

underwater city in a bottle? A floating island in space? An enchanted mushroom village, a dragon sanctuary, or a frozen arctic world. You got to pick one and tell me why. I'm going to put Jaden in the hot seat. Jaden, you're going to start us off. Jaden, tell me which world would you visit and why. >> Uh frozen arctic world. I would visit it because I'd be able to maybe find anything frozen. Like really old frozen somewhere in the ice. >> Ooh, that's a good thought. I like that one. Very cool. Um Jaden, call on someone

different. >> Haley. >> Okay. Um Paige is always telling me that I think too deeply about these questions, but I'm just going to keep going with That anyways. Um >> [laughter] >> I think well, I would do the enchanted mushroom village or the floating island in space. Probably the floating island in space because then you get I feel like the open night sky is so pretty just on Earth as it is. Like you I could look at it all day. Um or all night, I guess. Um But if you're like literally if it's like a

tiny island and it's like that much closer, that would be so cool. Um and I've no interest in going anywhere in the medieval times. Like I don't know why people romanticize medieval times. It sounds horrific. But yeah, that's where I'd go. >> Love it. Call on someone else. >> Uh Mark. >> Mark, are you there? Mark. Mark. Mark. He'll come back shortly. Pick someone else. >> Okay, Paige. >> Um, I definitely like the dragon sanctuary just cuz I feel like it's the only one that like emphasizes like the streamy animals there. So, I don't know.

I just think dragons are cool, so I pick that one. >> Yeah. I like that one. All right, one more person. >> I'll say. >> Hold on. Um an underwater city in a bottle because it reminds me of that one level of Mario 64, the wet dry world. >> [snorts] >> So yeah. >> Cool. I dig it. Um, I think if I had to choose, these are all very hard for me. Um, cuz I I think they're all very interesting. I do love underwater things. I don't know why. I just love anything underwater. But I'm

feeling like the enchanted mushroom village would be pretty cool. I recently watched A Bug's Life, so hopefully I could find like a really cute, friendly, chubby caterpillar um in this enchanted mushroom village. And it definitely gives me an idea of um maybe Some ideas that I can use for my sketches today. So, hopefully these are also giving you some inspiration for your project we're going to work on. Okay, go ahead and go ahead and move on to pause. If you guys can go ahead and create a pause goal in the chat for me. Tell me

how you're going to reach being positive, ambitious, worthy, or self-confident within class. Give me a nice sentence on how you're going to be positive, or ambitious, Worthy, or self-confident. Type it in the chat, press enter. Thank you, Abby. Elsa. >> Um I'll be uh uh worthy to probably like try to com- compliment people other people's art and then probably Sorry. And then probably like um try explaining like how I did mine a Little bit, you know, like the sketch process. So. >> Yeah. Sharing your ideas with others, I think that's huge. Um as you guys

know, we learn from others. Um we always talk about music in here, which is why I made that cool Biggie cat for our um our animal portrait. So, I think it's a great idea to value your ideas and share them with others. And that also plays on self-confidence as well. Um thank you, Ashlyn. Um but I'm curious, how would getting a C in our class be confident? Tell me more about why you would say that's showing self-confidence to get a C in art. Why don't you unmute and tell me? I want to know more about

your thoughts. >> Um cuz it's passing. >> Yeah, but you do such wonderful art. And when you put your time and effort into It, you get higher than a C, right? So, don't you think that being self-confident would be trusting that you make great art and that you're going to do well, especially when you guys have the rubrics that you can grade yourself off of? Like, you can sit there and self-grade before you even turn in, so you can reflect and reflect and fix, right? So, don't sell yourself short. Reach for the stars. I know

that you guys can all get A's in here. It's just putting the time and effort into it. So, Ashwan, I want to hear you say I'll be self-confident by getting an A in art class. Tell me that you're going to do well in art because you can be confident. You have great ideas. We love to see them. We love to hear about them. Now, you need to have that confidence instilled in your own two feet. You meant a B? Okay, that's a little bit better, but I think we can get an A. All right. Thank

you guys for sharing. Um Angela, what's a goal that you have for art class today? >> What was the question? >> What would be a PAWS goal in art class today? >> Um ambitious. >> Being ambitious? How could you show ambition in class? >> Um by like trying to challenge myself in art, like to making something more out of my comfort zone. >> Yeah, challenging yourself, right? Getting started right away. Don't try the bare minimum, right? Really try and push yourself. If you're extremely good at drawing, let's say forest scenes, challenge yourself and draw something

besides a forest scene. Maybe it is a floating world, right? A Floating island in outer space. Maybe you're going to draw a deserted island. Maybe you're going to draw a medieval kingdom. So, think about how you can always push yourself. Uh, dogs are always talking to each other in the background. So, we're starting our tiny worlds. I have your slides which will be pinned in the chat. You guys can follow along. They're also in your Google Classroom. So, we're working on tiny worlds. Here's an example. We're going to think about how illustrators create these imaginative

places within their art. So, we're going to take all of our elements of art that we have learned throughout uh middle school, and you are going to create an imaginative well-composed work of art um that shows lots of craftsmanship, it has a story behind it, um and then of course it has your unique perspective. So, we're really going to work on spatial awareness, scale, details, and visual storytelling within our artwork. That's what our main goal is. Creating a tiny world inside of a glass container that shows creativity, strong composition, storytelling, craftsmanship, and of course seeing

your growth. In the last class, we discovered artistic um Creative worlds, right? We looked at some artists um artwork, and we saw how they created tiny worlds. One of them specifically was the garden world with Tad the snails that were crawling out of like the florist shop. Um and so, today we're going to learn how artists make those imaginative places feel more believable. How do we fill this imaginative world inside of a bottle to make it look like a mini universe, and not just like Here's a random drawing of a house and a tree and

that's it, right? So, how are we going to create this story that makes you want more? Um yes, Mark, I can show you again. You can also see them on um some of our slides as well. So, learning target, Mr. Xavier, I'm going to get you to read it to us. Welcome. What's our learning target? >> target? >> Yeah. >> We explore uh complex uh complex >> composition >> Oh, composition, thank you. Uh ideas, analyzing >> Yep. >> uh artist choices and develop >> a >> a thoughtful plan that uh >> strengthens strengthens what? >>

strengthens >> strengthens my tiny world visual story. >> That is a lot. That is like a crazy loaded learning target. You have to explore composition ideas, analyze artistic choices, and develop a thoughtful plan to strengthen your tiny world's visual story. This is crazy. How do I have to Synthesize this information page? How would you turn this learning target into a more reachable goal for you? >> Oh, you put me on the spot here. Um >> Like in your own words, what are you planning on doing with this learning target? >> Well, I'm going to definitely

like look at the examples that you've given us, and I'm going to mainly focus on Telling a story within what I'm trying to make and making it like tie together correctly, I guess. >> Yeah. >> Sure, my color choices and my line work choices all contribute to that. >> Oh, I love it. So, you really honed in on like how you're going to use your artistic choices to develop your ideas. Um, let's call on Ellie. Ellie, what do You What does the learning target mean to you? >> Sorry. Um, the learning target, sorry. My voice

sounds so bad right now. Um >> It's okay. I'm just thinking about your ideas. Like how are you going to take this learning target and make it your own so it's easier to reach that goal and to understand the goal. >> Um, so first, obviously, I'm going to inspect, if that's a way you can put it, um, any artwork I can really do to be able to, I guess, inspire my work. Sorry about my background noise and be able to develop a plan for me to be able to, I guess, really put what I'm thinking

into perspective >> Yeah. >> and be able to create my tiny worlds like visual story. >> Ooh. I love it. Both of you guys have two different points of view from the same learning target and that's why we have to synthesize the information for my learning target because if it's always just Miss Nagel telling you the learning target or I give it to you and you're going to be like, "What do I do with this? Like I don't know how to understand the target." So, if you read it yourself, obviously, And you create your own

interpretation of it, then it's going to stick to you a little bit better on what your um end goal is going to be. I also love how Ellie mentioned how she was going to explore different um different examples Or she's going to investigate. Uh so she's going to go and explore maybe some tiny worlds that were created within artwork and she's going to gain ideas from those or maybe some of the examples you guys share in class. So success criteria is we're going to create multiple thumbnail sketches today and that way you can explore different

compositions. You're going to be able to analyze different compositions and just think about how we're going to improve them. Um specifically using art vocab. You know I've been honing in on using that art vocab in our artist statements. And then how we can select and develop our strongest idea for our final project. So what I can do just to help you guys remember what your learning target is is I can grab your learning target and we will put it in the chat for you. Um and so that way if you feel like I don't remember

what I'm supposed to be doing it's always in the chat. So some of you guys have already made that connection but we're going to go ahead and throw it in there just in case. So our essential question is going to guide our thinking today with our learning target is how can feedback and intentional artistic choices strengthen our composition um within our art. So let's go on somebody I haven't heard from. Skyler, how do you think feedback and intentional artistic choices strengthen a composition? You can bring you can break it apart, too. Do you want to

talk about one? >> Wait, sorry. Um >> I'll break it apart. Tell me how feedback can strengthen your artwork. >> Oh, um with feedback from people, it's like if they say like your lines are a little messy, you can go and fix that. So, like you learn from what people tell you. That's like Not really imperfect by your artwork, but little like mistakes here and there to like improve it. >> Yeah. Shall we answer my friend? So, thinking about how we can use feedback to make ourselves become a better artist and to really look at

our art. We've talked about how we often auto-correct things that we see in our art or we bypass them. So, when we get feedback from others, we definitely like, "Ah, good Point taken. I definitely should fix that." Um Mark, are you at your computer? Cuz I can't see you. Mark, Mark, Mark. Jaden, your camera turned off. Ashlyn, your camera turned off. Those need to be back on. Didn't say that you guys got to turn your camera off. Mark. Tell me. How does intentional artistic choices preserve your original artwork and your Ideas? Like, how does it

strengthen your composition? >> Um well, first of all, if you you know, take other people's ideas and um you know, like structures like completely, that's not really original. You're not really using your own like ideas or thought process on like an art piece. Hold on. Let me like reread this. Um and like even if something doesn't look intentional, like if it is intentional, like it's going to push the Message that you're trying to convey one way or another. And maybe even if it doesn't do that, it's going to like it's going to at least push

a message that is meaningful to the person that's viewing the art. >> Yeah. Strong work on your um interpretation of the essential question. And I think like once we get through our lesson, you'll obviously get more of an understanding of it, but Mark really like hit the nail On the head with that one. We just did that creative studio where it was all about getting style from famous artists and making it your own. You guys did a really nice job with that. Like taking ideas from Matisse or from Picasso or DaVinci and not copying the

art, but taking qualities that you like about their art along with your original idea and mashing those together to help strengthen the meaning, but help play Off like the strong suits of an artist and your obviously strengths as well. >> Miss Daigle, have you been seeing my messages? >> I did last week. >> No, like in the meet chat. >> Oh, now I did. I mean, I saw earlier, but now >> Okay. Okay. I just wanted to make sure. >> Thank you. Yes, I knew you had to leave early, too, yesterday cuz we you told

me about that. It was like 1:15, I think You left. >> Yeah, today I don't. I was just I was just out and like for a bit, but I was I was listening and I'm I'm hearing all good now, so. >> No worries. Um I just you always have your camera on, so that's why I was like, "Are you there?" And we've had so many technical difficulties today, so I was just double-checking. I do have a couple of students that I've been like trying to Google Chat on the side, like, "Are you there?" And they're

not answering, so I have to mark them as absent and you guys know I don't like marking people absent if I don't have to. Thank you for letting me know, Mark. Um so thinking about today's agenda, we're just going to look at tiny world compositions. We are going to do some thumbnail sketches. You guys will turn in those thumbnail sketches as you can See in your Google Classroom. And then we'll evaluate some sample sketches as well. We'll bypass the standards. These are just how I create your lessons as I look at what you guys need

to accomplish by the end of class. Some vocab. Let's call on some friends just to tell us like in their own words. Haley, what is a composition? >> Composition? >> Yeah, like what is a composition? We talk about it in art. >> Um that's like the overall makeup of the piece. How things I was going to say arranged but >> You can use that. >> Okay, yeah. How things are arranged like within the borders of your canvas, like what the focal point is and what you decide to put around it in order to enhance that

and whatnot. >> Thank you, Haley. Yeah, it's the overall Picture. All the details that you put inside to help create that meaning within. Jayden, tell me what is a focal point? If I said, "Hey, put a focal point within your artwork." What does that mean? >> Focal points? >> Yeah, a focal point. Like if I ask you to put a focal point in your art, what does that mean? >> Um what that means is in your artwork, you Want to try to like put points in there like I'm just trying to get one. Sorry. >>

No, you're good. I'm thinking about your skull with the hat that you drew earlier this year. What was the focal point of that artwork? Like what did you want us to look at? >> The more detail I put on it Kind of like showing how more realistic it looked. >> Yeah, the detailed skull. That was your focal point, right? That's what you wanted us to look at first. You didn't want us to look at anything in the background. You want us to look at the skull. So, that would be your focal point. Something that catches

that viewer's eye right off the bat. Um Let's call on someone new. Um Abby, what are thumbnail sketches? >> Um usually just like a series of very quick like like 5-minute sketches of different ideas that you have that you're thinking about, but you kind of just want to like experiment with different factors for the final product. >> Perfect. Um Zahara, can you tell us what visual storytelling would be? >> Um Can I just say the one that's there? >> Yeah. >> It's using images to communicate a story. >> Yeah, so you're going to create a

detailed picture to help tell that story. Um so, we're just taking everyday objects and we're going to transform them into something unexpected. And so, that's what our main goal is. As you guys are coming up with these little mini universes and it's going to Take an everyday object and you're going to put it inside the mini universe inside that everyday object, and we're going to create a story. Yesterday, we talked about how we looked at um like the garden shop inside the bottle, but we were wondering what happened before that scene and what happened afterwards.

And so, we're really getting the viewer to hone in on the details and wonder. And if we can engage that viewer, then we're doing our job as an Artist. So, we know that tiny da- details, tiny dales, sorry. Tiny details tell big stories. So, we want our tiny worlds to look pretty cool, right? Yeah, but we want the viewer to wonder. We want to give them that sense of wonder so they're interacting. Why did the artist choose this? Why did they add this detail? I wonder why they used this color. So, we start to have

that viewer kind of play back and forth with our Artwork for a longer period of time, and that's what we want. We want to engage them and evoke this sense of wonder by thinking like who's there? Why is this story happening or why did they choose that content? Um what's happening before or how do we make this more believable um for the viewer. How do we really get them engaged with our art? So, let's take a close look. Which composition communicates the strongest visual story? Go ahead and put it in the chat. One, two, or

three. I'm looking for everyone to put the number in the chat. Thank you, Abby. Thank you, Ellie. Thank you, Angela. Thank you, Elsa. Waiting for some more. Thank you, Jayden. Thank you, Clavian. Thank you, Haley. Sahara. Thank you, Skylar. What do you guys are thinking? Thank you, Paige. Ashwin, what about you? Evan, I can't see you. I pick number two. >> You picked two. >> Yeah. >> Why did you pick two? >> Um because it can actually live there. There's water and food in the plants. >> Oh, so it's like a realistic environment for you

and so that's why you gravitate to that one. All right. Evan, why did you pick number one? >> Um I like three a lot, but I picked one for like the cuz I felt like it had the strongest story cuz like um there's a cat and I think there's a there's a bunny and they're like friends And like maybe they're like exploring and like maybe their passion is exploring. >> Yeah. >> I know. >> No, you're you're 100% right, Evan. I also think one is a very strong storytelling work of art because it does have

the two characters in the boat. We can see that they're paddling. There's fish underneath. They've got like some Star reflections as well in the bottle, so kind of makes it feel like it's maybe night time and the way that they have the plants that are growing outside and they match the inside, that also creates that sense of wonder. I think most of you did pick number one. Um Paige, I'm going to pick you because you picked number three. Tell me why three creates a strong sense of story. >> Um I just thought just cuz it

was like different from the other two, like The first two are more like water themed and this one um like has ghosts in it, which is kind of intriguing. Um and it also looks like they're in like kind of more of a domestic setting than the other two. So, I don't know. I just thought that it maybe communicated a story. >> Yeah. Elsa, what do you think? >> Um three is my favorite cuz I like the art style and I like how there's like watches outside of it. And I feel like the colors like really

bring it out. >> Okay. Angela, tell me why you disagree with number three and you like one. Cuz right now you guys are defending your answers. You're telling me why you think this artist is stronger, which is what I want to hear. I want you to use those visual examples that you're seeing to defend your choice and you're doing an excellent job. So, Angela, I'm wondering Why you picked one. >> So, I picked one because I really like like the environment. And also that the bottle like kind of goes with like what's inside of it.

And also the plants. >> Yeah. Xavier, which one do you think is the strongest story? >> I think number one because it's more like cleaner and also like neutralize the colors. >> Oh. So, the colors, the artistic choices are helping to play out with the strongest theme. I like that you mentioned that. Thank you, Xavier. Now, all three of them show a good story. I'm not going to lie. Any of them could have been the right answer. There is no right or wrong answer for these. It's how you're connecting to the art. And if you

look in the chat right now, we have lots of ones. We have a few threes. Um no one really picked two, but there's some people out there that say, "Hey, I really like two. I think two has a good story." But once we start to look at these closely, we start to use visual evidence, the colors, the style that it was drawn in, maybe the style of the bottle, what's inside and outside. So, we're really playing into the artistic choices these artists made to create these wonderful tiny universes within. And that's helping us to engage

in the Art. So, the artists is doing their job, not only to entertain us, but to evoke that sense of wonder. What's going to happen next? What's going on in here? Why are they inside the bottle? So, let's go for a little demo. We're going to brainstorm some ideas. So, I'm going to do a demo before you guys get started on um your own drawing. So, I'm going to show you some ideas that I was generating during lunch today. Um and then we will have you guys maybe share some ideas in the chat before you

take about 15 minutes um to do a few sketches before we'll come back and look at some of those sketches. All right. So, thumbnail sketches. Thumbnail sketches are small. Um They're bigger than your thumbnail. >> [laughter] >> I'm going to say that, obviously. But, they're just going to be little little small ones, maybe like 3 by 3 in Would be like a good size for a thumbnail. What I did for my sketchbook is I just um drew a line straight down the middle and then two horizontally to make six different um spaces. And now I'm

just trying to brainstorm places that I might want to investigate. Um you guys already heard me, you know, I like underwater things. In art club, I made a uh octopus made out of cheese, if You guys know from last week. so we're going to play off my underwater fascination over here. What I thought about is what I see normally in fish tanks and my kids like the show Bubble Guppies, which have little mermaids that have like schools and towns inside. So I made a little castle as you see here. We drew some different aquatic plants.

We're going to draw some fish. I've got a jellyfish all within side my jar. So this is the first one because that really intrigued me. I was like, all right. What else could I do next? And I thought, ooh, let's do mountains. We live in a mountainous state. Like let's go ahead and explore maybe some mountains. So I thought about waterfalls, which is something that I really love to look at in the mountains. So I drew a little Waterfall coming off of a cliff. We have some trees and a little log cabin to the side

and then of course some rocky mountains in the back. I'm like, okay. We're good here. I'm liking these different ideas. But I'm going to keep on going for more. Two is not enough. You might think it is, but I think sometimes our best ideas come from inspiration from previous drawings and obviously it comes from our Interests as well. And so I really love Star Wars. I told you guys yesterday I might want to do a Star Wars type of a village. So one thing I could think about is changing the jar. I can make the

jar go sideways. But since I want to think about creating Endor, which is where um Oh no, I can't think of what they're called. Ewoks live. I'm going to draw a little jar. I'm just going to keep with the same shape. It is quite easy to keep the same shape. I'm going to simply sketch it. We have our lid. We have the side of our jar. We're going to draw the cork. Here's the bottom of the cork. Now, I'm going to have the jar come Down. Now, obviously, thinking about this cork, it's a little bit

bigger than I wanted it to be, but that's okay. It's a thumbnail sketch, right? It doesn't have to be perfect. It's just giving us ideas. So, in indoor in Star Wars, um these little Ewoks have little houses that are like tree houses inside Of forest. So, I'm going to draw these little tree houses. They kind of have like thatched roofs. So, I'm going to draw these little lines for thatching. Um we're going to draw the tree that it would be on. I need to draw, let's see, maybe there's a balcony. Cuz they have to be

able to move back and forth. We got to have some support Beams in here. And then, of course, we want to lead to another little village. So, I'm going to draw another little hut. And you guys see I'm not worrying about what is being perfect. I'm just gaining ideas of what I could draw. Might add some shading just kind of give it more of a storyline. All right. Now, right now you're probably like, "Okay, there's just a couple of tree houses. All right, maybe Miss Nego likes to do tree houses or maybe that's where she

wants to go." Like you're not really thinking anything of it. So, this is where I would probably want to draw like an AT-AT, which is this little machine that the bad guys Uh came in indoor one of the episodes. So, I'm going to draw a little machine. I'm looking at a reference of what a what an AT-AT looks like or an at-at is what they're also called. I could draw the Death Star up here. So, now you're starting to see it's more of a Star Wars village. I can draw some trees in the back. Um

maybe have some Cut wood in the front. Draw some plants. Could have some more trees back here. So, there's a simple little sketch, right? It didn't take very long to just draw it out, um but it's packed full of detail. So, then we can move on to our next one. Um if I want to do let's say another Star Wars one, um I love The uh planet that has a cantina on it. So, that's more of like a, um, a desertscape, so you could think about drawing a different bottle, maybe. Here's the opening. This is

going to be like where the desert scene would be. And now I can start to draw the little desert style house. So, kind of what I'm doing right now is What you guys are going to be thinking about for your artwork. So, if you guys have some ideas on what you're going to sketch out for maybe one or two of your thumbnails, go ahead and add that inside the chat. One thing this planet has is two moons. So, we got to draw the two moons somewhere. Very rocky. Let's add some rocks in there. Probably not

my best one, right? This is the one that I really wanted to do, Star Wars, and now I'm looking at it, I'm like, I don't know if I really like Star Wars anymore. So, that's why you're doing all these different thumbnails is because you're going to come up with all these great ideas and you're going to realize like, "Ugh, that's not as strong as a composition as I thought it was going to be." Or, "I Don't like that bottle. Maybe I still want to explore this Star Wars idea, but I'm going to change the bottle

shape. Maybe if I have more room inside of a rectangle, inside of a rounded bottle, that might help my composition. So, that's why I'm saying, do your thumbnails. Even if you're like, I'm doing underwater, and that's I'm sold on underwater, try and create a few different versions of the underwater. All right, put in the chat, what's going To be your first thumbnail? Abby says, I'm thinking about something with the castle. Love it. Could be castle in the sky, could be medieval castle, could be underwater castle. There's so many options. Maybe it's Harry Potter style castle.

You know, I like a good Hogwarts. That might be in there. You're going to try underwater. I think it's a great idea, Evan. Waiting for some more friends. We got lots of cameras off all of a sudden. Don't know why you guys keep turning them off. I didn't give you the approval to turn them off. A grassy habitat for mice. Do explain. What are you going to put in there? Can't just be a a grassy hill. >> Well, it's going to be it's going [clears throat] to be like there's going to be grass and moss,

and then I'm going to do Like some assorted flowers and like plants and stuff, and then there's going to be um mice in there. I'm thinking in the sketch that I'm doing right now, it's like very simple, and it's just plants and the mice. But I might make like a little house for them, um or like kind of like the three blind mice, I might make them like like a wheel, but like flat, or maybe I'll just make them a regular wheel. I don't know. >> Oh. Interesting. Um you actually gave me an idea. Um

Dudley Dormouse used to be my favorite book series growing up. Um and I was trying to see if I could find a picture for you right now, but I can't find one, but he the illustrator would show inside of the house. And so you would see like maybe like part of the tree on the outside and then on like the Inside of the tree you could see like Dudley's home inside. So your idea of seeing like the mouse inside made me just think about that illustration cuz I'm like, oh, now I can kind of see

this grassy hill and we're taking a glimpse inside of like the mice that are maybe sitting in their living room like reading the paper, eating a little piece of cheese, or something like that. So it could definitely be a strong composition depending on what details you add Inside. Um also you said abstract shapes, but that's not really telling a story. >> Well, it is for me because Um so I'm going to put like kind of like stairs a little bit, like kind of achieving something. And um Uh I I have like a rough sketch right

now. I don't know what else I'm going to put in it, so. >> Okay. Explore the idea, but think about how are you going to add some type of scene or characters that makes that viewer start to say, "Ooh, I want to go here. Ooh, why did they add this? Or where does that staircase go?" Right? Make the viewer engaged. Bring them in. Um All right, looking for some more people. What what about Haley or Paige? Put it in the chat. How about Xavier? Put it in the chat. Angela, put it in the chat. What

are you guys going to Draw? All right, so now we're going to do is we're going to take about 15 minutes of studio time. You're going to create six tiny thumbnail sketches. And when I mean tiny, not like, you know, a tiny sketch for a museum for ants. Like, you know, maybe like a 3x3 square. Um keep each sketch I said under a minute, they should be about like 5 minutes. So, let's change this to about Like 5. >> Um I only I I only put down enough space for four. Do you want me to

get another page to do two more? >> Let's see what you got at the end of 15 minutes we can come up with that. >> Okay. >> You might like you might want to be like, "Nah, I need to keep going." So, our goal is to do six. I I think four you could probably decide on what To do, but six is a a good number for thumbnails. So, we're not looking for perfection as you guys saw with my drawings. They're not perfect. Um but they are detailed. So, detailed drawings. Thinking about doing some spooky

thing like Coraline, Tim Burton. Cool. Digging it. Really like that idea. And I believe there's a new movie coming out based on the movie producer from Coraline, so. They're really in with the culture scene right now. Ellie, what about you? What are you going to do for your first thumbnail? >> So, yesterday since my entire family just got done watching the third Avatar. Um I was [clears throat] thinking about Pandora and Pandora's Box. Then I realized it can't be a box because it has to be a jar. >> Like can it be a square jar?

>> Oh wait, yeah. >> I mean my hand soap is in a square jar is all I'm thinking about or it's like a rectangular jar, but yeah. I didn't tell you what shape it had to be in. >> Well, you said a jar and jars are usually round, so >> That's true. That's facts. Um if you're not sure what I would do is um Google different glass jars. Like if you just Google like glass jar, let's say drawings. Um they'll give you some different examples. So, you might want it depending on like what you choose,

you might change the shape of the jar. If you're going for Like a more of a medieval castle, you might do something to where it's a um more of like an urn style where it has a smaller base, but it has like a wider neck area. Or you might do one that's got like a really detailed top, kind of like an old uh sugar jar. So, you could definitely look at different jar drawings. Um you could look under clap like glass containers. So, here's some other, you know, Examples that we can see. Anything from like

a mason jar to a bottle. Um could be something like a sugar jar, spices, jam jar. All different ideas. The world is your horizon with the creativity for this project. All right, we got about 12 minutes. So, I'm going to see some thumbnail sketches and you guys are turning them in today. >> All right. While you guys are drawing, I can also uh be drawing maybe some more Ideas. So then I can show you all of my little thumbnail sketches. >> All right, Haley. I liked your Tim Burton idea. I did a jar like that.

I need one more idea for my sixth sketch. We have about 7 minutes left, so you can put something in the chat for me. I got artist block. Need your inspiration, folks. Who's going to give me something for my jar? All right, Haley. >> Um, I was also thinking something maybe like mystic and dream like and then I was also thinking comic world, but I really want to go like Halloween oriented. So, I don't know. >> You can >> your Halloween one, I thought about like a Tim Burton like creepy haunted house. I asked one

of my classes like haunted House or haunted forest. So, I was thinking like haunted house like Addams Family style, like Victorian home that has like this winding staircase that comes down, some tombstones, a rickety fence, and this like swirly tree that would have lanterns in it. >> That looks super cool. >> Yeah. So, there, there's an idea for you. Now, I got to think about I like your dreamscape, like your dreamy world. So, I'm going to think about that one. Paige. >> So, we like don't necessarily necessarily, jeez, have to have like characters in in

here. It can it can just be landscape if we want. >> Mhm. >> Okay. >> All right. So, last one I'll do, see if I can finish it. About 5 minutes. We're going to see how many you guys Have been able to do. Well, some of you were eating lunch. I heard that. I heard the clinking. The clinking of the dishes. But, that's okay as long as you're doing your work. Um, dreamscape. What if we did something like I don't know, like a castle on like a floating island. Haley. >> Okay, I know for a

fact that Pinterest is like listening to me at all times because right hand of God, I open Pinterest and to like brainstorm and I look up um mini landscapes and instead of giving any kind of landscapes, they're giving me pictures of Coraline. >> That's crazy. >> I guess. >> The way technology works today. Like what if we do like floating like Islands with kind of like castles on them? That might be kind of cool. You can do another one over here. A tree over here. Just some waterfalls that come on down. Crescent moons are always

whimsical for me. So maybe a crescent moon. You could have like a cool lantern coming down maybe. >> So we can do like a Coraline type of aspect with like maybe some like stars Hanging off of a moon. Have a lantern coming down. But we could always have like these little islands, floating islands that have like landscape on them. Ooh, that one's kind of fun. We have some clouds in the background. This one seems fun. I like this one. All right. We've got about 2 minutes left. >> We're down to our last 20, so in

the next 20 seconds the timer goes off, You're going to have to flip your cameras back on. It's time for our mid-studio check. All right, that's it. Cameras back on. I see Elsa. I see Ellie. I see Abby. I see Styler. What about Mark? How about Evan? Thank you, Paige. Thank you Angela. What about Ashwan and Jayden? Cameron, >> [singing] >> Xavier, wherever you are, come on back. Okay, put in the chat how many sketches were you able to get through. Give me a number. Put a number in the chat. How many sketches did you

get through? You got through four, nice. It's a pretty good goal right there. Getting through four. All right. I see a four. I see two. Okay. We got some brainstorming going on there. That's fine. All right, keep going. One, two, four. See a lot of fours in there. Four's great. You're still making another one. That's fine. So, as you guys have already seen with mine, we have underwater, mountain, Haley gave me the idea to do like a little Halloween town over here. Star Wars, cuz you guys know, huge Star Wars fan. And then Haley also,

I think it was Haley and Paige gave me the idea for the dreamscape world. So, here are my six examples. What I'm going to do is then decide which one seems most interesting for me. I think my top three um would have to be the ones with the stars on them. I'm going to still go with underwater, still like the Star Wars, and I like this dreamscape. And so, now I'm just going to narrow it down to which one I like. However, We're going to kind of talk about your art. So, what I want you

guys to do is examine these two sketches first. What artistic choices do you think work well um in the sketches? If any. What do you think, Abby? Which ones are working well or which ones could be improved? >> Um I think the one on the bottom, especially, is working super well. Um I think there's just more detail. Like there are more trees, more detail on the house. Uh there are clouds, smoke coming from the chimney. Uh detail on the cork. There's just like a lot going on, I guess. A lot to look at. >> A

lot of details, a lot of texture. Abby, call on someone to build on your Response. >> Uh Ashwin. >> Ashwin. You're up. Tell us what's working well or what could be improved with these two sketches. >> Um The second one's definitely a lot more detailed, so the first one needs better. >> Okay. What's wrong with the first one? Give me some artistic choices that need To be improved, please. >> The pen There's no like realistic Nothing realistic. No like Um no like shading or anything to make it look nice. And not a lot of details.

>> So because it's lacking shading, we're lacking contrast. So it's not really helping us tell a story, even though this is just a little thumbnail sketch, it's not helping us get the gist of what's actually going on. Okay? Ashwin, Call on someone else to build on what you and Abby have mentioned about what's working well or what could be fixed with these two sketches. >> Uh Elsa. >> Elsa. >> What? >> So we've talked about how number two is a better sketch. We've said that number two has texture, it has lots of details, there's some

shading. Whereas Ron's Like, "Eh, number one's falling short. It's not as good. Um there's just not a lot of contrast in there." >> Um well, for me, uh the first one's kind of easier because you know where you're going to put everything. >> Okay. >> But the second one is too complicated for me, you know, because shading kind of messes me up a little bit. Like if it's a sketch. But the first one, you know, you could See where you're supposed to put everything. Um and then like when you're finished with it, you know where

the put put the shading and all that. So. >> Okay. So you're saying that the first one is more open for interpretation where like the shading might go. I do wonder. You said the second one is too complicated, but which one is a better design? >> Um I like the first one. I don't know why. It just reminds me of something I drew like 2 years ago. >> But if you look at like the edges of the bottles, do you still think the first one is I guess as high as a quality art than the

bottom one? >> I mean I don't think it has to be perfect, but I guess the second one has like better lining, I guess. >> So it's a more consistent when it comes To like lines and line weight. I can see that. Um Xavier, can you use our sentence stem and talk about what you would recommend the first artist do to better their artwork? >> So I recommend uh trying to do a little bit more detail or practice a little bit more. That would help the art. >> How? >> Practicing. >> So, practicing would help

them in which way? >> In the in the drawing. >> Yeah, drawing what? >> The uh the little world. The little the little one. >> Drawing the details inside, right? We don't often see a sun's rays look specifically like that. This is what we talked about earlier this year, assemble versus something that's more realistic. And so, automatically our brains are like, "Let's draw symbols. They're so easy. Why draw something that looks real? Because then we can pick out all the mistakes and what we did wrong and then we start to feel bad about our artwork."

But to create these tiny universes and to make them feel realistic or to make them feel believable, we should try to make them somewhat believable. So, you might like the first one because it doesn't have as Much as the shading, but when we add the shading, it helps us map out where our colors going to be. So, we should be leaning more to the second drawing because then we can start to map out like, "Hey, I need to put dark color in this section. This section's going to be light color." Or I have a lot

of empty space in the tree. It can't be a solid green. So, what can I do? Can I add branches that are poking through? Can I add a bird that's in the Tree? Can I change the shape of the tree? Um same way with the mountains. The mountains are just an M. How do we make them more believable that these are mountains and not just something that was rushed through? So, now you're going to go back to your thumbnail sketches. Choose your strongest thumbnail and develop it just a little bit more. So, what you're going

to do today is You're going to turn in your thumbnail sketches. We have about 20 minutes-ish left of class. Um in your Google Classroom underneath classwork, you're going to see tiny worlds in a bottle. It says plan in all caps because I'll still have some of you go, "Where do I submit my artwork?" So, you're going to turn your plan right here. It says create five to six tiny little world sketches in a jar. You're going to take a picture using the Google Documents, create top right, remember, and then Google Documents, insert camera, snap a

shot of your artwork. I want to see all of your thumbnail sketches cuz I want to see your great ideas. I get inspiration from you guys. So, I want to see what you guys have thought of. Um when you are ready, you can submit them. However, You need to choose your strongest thumbnail and you're going to develop it just a little bit more. So, if I'm choosing my underwater theme picture currently, how am I going to develop this one a little bit more? Am I going to add some more fish? Am I going to add

some differentiation into maybe like the windows versus the door? Am I going to add some type of texture? Is this Made out of rock? Is it made out of sand? What about the jellyfish? It blends in. Should the jellyfish go somewhere else? Should I add some shading to add some contrast on top? Or maybe I x-nay the jellyfish and put it somewhere else. Right? Maybe the jellyfish hangs on the outside of the jar and then I can draw its tentacles coming out, right? We can draw some of the elements outside the jar to help build

that story. So, pick your favorite, strongest thumbnail, develop it a little bit more. Apply what you have learned or what we've discussed in our mid-studio check to improve your composition. Finish the focal point. Add some foregrounds or any type of meaningful details to strengthen your story. Cuz then I'm going to get you to write a Book about it. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not going to do that. But, in your artist statement, you'll have to talk about your tiny world. So, it needs to be full of details just like you were going to put it

in a book. Some of you were like, "Are you serious? You're going to make me write." Yes. Artist encourage a short story from you guys. Maybe Evan, Cuz Evan wrote me a whole essay on his artist statement last time. So, how are you going to strengthen your story? Let's take another Let's do it 10 minutes this time. I don't want to do 15 minutes, going to run too close for us to turn in our artwork and our exit ticket. So, 10 minutes. >> Would you be able to post that exit ticket as well as where

we're supposed To turn in the um the thumbnails? >> So, our exit ticket, we're just going to answer it out loud. What I can do is I you know I love to hearing your thoughts. So what if I send it through Google Chat and you can chat me like your big idea like your aha from our exit ticket. >> All right. >> Cool. >> And then where should I turn in these Thumbnails? >> In your Google Classroom. You'll see it. It says plan. And I know you got to leave. So whenever you get back from

your other um schooling or appointments today, then you can send me your response. >> I don't have to leave for another 6 minutes, so I can take care of that. >> Oh, okay. Perfect. All right, set. >> Um, I don't know if I missed it or if it was um, on the day that I had to leave early or something. Um, or maybe I really just did miss it. Um, I'm a bit confused on the um, Here, let me go look at it on like the artist spotlight. >> Your mid the mid studio checkpoint. >>

Oh, okay. >> I should put like the mid studio in There. I just put the other title. I apologize. I want to jellyfish on the outside. >> All right, bye. Bye Mark. I'll see you on Thursday. >> See you. >> Have a wonderful day. You have about 2 minutes left. If you guys are already done, start submitting your work on your Google Classroom for your assignment. This is tiny worlds in a bottle. Tiny worlds and I guess I should change this title. Tiny worlds in a bottle plan. So, go ahead and start submitting pictures of

your thumbnail sketches. All right, Welcome back. Cameras come back on. So, I think we have enough time. Let's do our little reflection or check-in. So, use one of these sentence stems or Create your own um to tell me about your tiny world. So, today you've discovered hmm or maybe one idea you're excited to try in your artwork or one detail that she still need to add in your art. So, go ahead and type it out in the chat or you can say it out loud. Elsa. >> Um so, one detail I kind of want to

add is maybe like a little bit of color to see where like I'm putting everything. >> Oh, yeah. Do you like that color within your thumbnail within your plan? It's a great idea. >> Yeah. >> Um Ashton, what about you? >> Um I don't know. >> What's an idea you're excited about in your art? >> 3D clay modeling. >> 3D clay modeling. Tell me more about that and how you're putting it in your jar. How are you showing 3D clay modeling in your artwork? Um thank you, Evan. One idea that you're excited about is your

underwater art. Oh, I'm excited to see it. Abby said you're excited about um the last one you sketched. It's also underwater, still with the castle. I'm digging it. Do you see how we can play off each others ideas? So, I love that you guys can share things that um you are discovering. Skyler, what about you? What's one thing you're excited about in your artwork? Tell me about your world. I have an idea, but I could be wrong, so tell me about your theme that you're excited to draw. >> Um I don't know. I was going

to make a bottle with a um pirate ship in it. I was going to make something like pirate-like, not going to lie. I don't know. >> Cool. I was thinking Domo world, see? I knew I was going to be wrong, but I was thinking Domo world, but I love the pirate. No one's done a pirate so far in here, I don't think. >> You know, Domo does sound good. Like, I can make like a nostalgic kind of thing of Domo. I could >> Yeah. >> I'll probably like a Domo. I'll think about it. >> Like

the um Totoro that we looked at Yesterday with the little girl that's like sitting on his belly in the forest. I could see like Domo having this cool um environment around him. Excited to play with darker color palettes. Ooh, exciting. You're excited about a desert sketch? Ooh, that would be fun, too. I like it. Ellie, how about you? >> Um I'm excited to try and do bioluminescence. Um Hopefully it's not as hard as it looks. Um I'm praying that um it doesn't go awfully, and I don't want to give up in the end. Um but

yeah, I'm just going to have to use be using a bunch of bioluminescence, different colors, different shadings. So, yeah. >> So, for your bioluminescence, are you going to try and use darker colors and accentuate like outlines or specific Areas of like water with like really bright and bold colors? Like blues or pinks? >> Yeah. I'm going to try doing that and then I can also do a lighter version of it in day >> [gasps] >> with it not having the bioluminescence. >> Yeah. >> So >> You can even play the background into That, too. Like

if it's like let's say like daytime, you could have like the lamp is over the jar, everything's dark, lamp is over the jar, so it's all lit up. >> Yeah. >> And then you can have one next to it that's in the dark that shows the bioluminescence, so. >> Yeah. >> Cool idea. >> that side thing. >> It's very ambitious. I'm digging it. I can't wait to see how you do that. All right, for your exit ticket, this will be your Optimus exit. Um Finish one of the sentence stems. So, one idea you applied from

our like mid-studio check or artist spotlight was mhm or the idea that you took from our mid-studio check strengthen your Composition because So, I can give you an example from Mark. Mark wrote, "I applied the idea of involving nature or a water source. I like the idea of spell jars and when I would make them, they would often include water, moss, and plants. This strengthened my composition by giving me a lot to work with as there are so many plants, flowers, and greenery that I can draw and sketch within." So, she's using things that she

has created in real life Um and she's using background knowledge of what she knows with like spell jars and she is creating her own environment within. So, let's see. Angela, what is one idea you could apply um to your art from our mid-studio check? >> Uh I was thinking of putting like instead of adding color, just doing it with pencil. So, like it will kind of stand out more cuz I'm doing like a drift car. >> Okay. >> But, I'm not sure how like I would put the like race in it like maybe some buildings

or something. >> Yeah, you're definitely going to play up detail and values. Value, value, value. That's going to be huge if you're trying to keep it black and white. Um Xavier, what's one thing that you are Fixing on your art that you've gotten from the artist spotlight? >> You're putting me on the spot, I guess. >> I sure am. >> [laughter] >> I forgot the one thing that where the artist >> Like you gave us some good details about like how to improve the jar, the top versus the bottom. So, like how could you use

what we talked about to improve your overall work? >> Probably adding details. >> Maybe adding more details inside, yeah? Making it less sketchy. Um more accurate. You're going to apply value and color usage that you've learned from our last project. Ooh. All right, it is 1:40. So, make sure that your work is turned in your Google Classroom, please. We're going to give feedback for these plans um for next week or next time I see you, which is Thursday. So, you guys are free to go. Have a wonderful afternoon. I'll see you guys on Thursday. We