{"id":25,"date":"2012-08-26T18:57:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T18:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/?p=25"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:21:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:21:22","slug":"the-first-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"The first class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WELL! This was\u00a0kind of a big deal. I&#8217;ve been blessed to be able to make limited edition art prints for a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiosb3.com\/illustrations-2\/star-wars\/\">Star Wars Celebration<\/a> event in Japan (2008) and in Florida (2010). This year (2012) Lucasfilm has invited me back to make another art print AND to teach a how to draw class in the Family Room.\u00a0I\u00a0decided that this would be the perfect opportunity for me to work on the DrawingIsSimple idea.<\/p>\n<p>I of course wanted it to be simple, so I looked back at how I learned to draw.\u00a0I\u00a0remembered that in elementary school I would check out drawing books by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edemberley.com\/pages\/main.aspx\">Ed Emberley<\/a>. He used simple shapes and letters to create simple illustrations. That&#8217;s the perfect technique to follow. When I made the R2-D2 instructions for my son I noticed that he seemed a bit overwhelmed by it. When I added a blank circle to the page to get him started\u00a0he jumped right in. I thought of having a special round Star Wars sticker made through my licensing agreement with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiosb3.com\/illustrations-2\/zazzle\/\">Zazzle<\/a>, but it was a bit pricey. I needed something for the kids to trace around so that they would start their drawings and I found the perfect low cost solution. A Quarter. It was a good size to work with, it had some markings on it to use as references for other elements of the drawing instruction, AND it only cost $0.25.\u00a0You can see in the\u00a0photo below that I tested the method by using a token.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-102 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/post-2012-0826a.jpg\" alt=\"post-2012-0826a\" width=\"1168\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/post-2012-0826a.jpg 1168w, http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/post-2012-0826a-620x194.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/post-2012-0826a-768x240.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/post-2012-0826a-1000x313.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1168px) 100vw, 1168px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made up and instruction sheet to hand out to the class along with a quarter and we were on our way. The experience was great! The class was engaged and they were able to follow along perfectly. I only regret that I didn&#8217;t get some photos of the work that they produced. I was even able to meet with one of the Lucasfilm hosts at the event and film a video about how the drawing system works. They didn&#8217;t ever do anything with the footage, but it was a good experience.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the flyer that I made for that very first presentation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-97 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/How2starwars-introPage72b.jpg\" alt=\"How2starwars-introPage72b\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELL! This was\u00a0kind of a big deal. I&#8217;ve been blessed to be able to make limited edition art prints for a\u00a0Star Wars Celebration event in Japan (2008) and in Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,4,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drawingissimple.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}