Character Design Learning materials for 7th grade students - Shape Language

Part of a visual arts literacy unit developed for students of a 7th grade level in which students would design a superhero. These materials were provided as part of several lessons with students to deliver a better understanding of shape language when designing cartoon/caricature/stylized characters.

The three images beneath is a character designed by a year 7 class, who suggested a character's abilities and backstory, around which we then chose a shape motif to begin constructing around the character - enter Nuke, aka Adrian Atomoski, a villain with a tragic background story starting as a nuclear scientist who was mutated by radiation which granted him the ability to teleport via splitting his own atoms, creating a miniature nuclear explosions and reforming elsewhere.

It was quite a fun classroom project to run and helped students gain a stronger understanding of some simple design principles regarding shape language and concept development.