Art Focus®: Manga:

Emotive Marks

Grades 6-12

Overview: Students learn about different mark-making techniques and apply them to create a manga style portrait of an original character.

Essential Skills: Students learn to interpret real images into the manga style and render the portraits using loose, gestural lines and a variety of mark-making.

Vocabulary + Terms: Caricature, Gesture, Value

Artist Inspiration: Robert DeJesus and Adam Riches