Previously for the first week, I have went to schools like Unity Primary, Bedok West Primary, Tanjong Katong Secondary. Each schools doing different kinds of arts. For Unity Primary I was doing Claymation. Students have done their storyboard, and they are suppose to use clay to mould into the characters in their storyboard. The theme for them was Gingerbread Man. Some of the stories was interesting. The Gingerbread Man was baked in the oven together with other Gingerbreads. So there was a time that this Gingerbread Man met a Gingerbread Girl. Both of them had a day to travel around, going to places around Singapore. They should put something, for example they went to swimming. The Gingerbreads got soaked and can't walk back to the confectionary. :D

For Bedok West Primary, that was the first time for me to still see a old school still exist. The environment was really 'kampong' style. The doors of the classroom was like last time those metal grid doors. The kids are Primary 2, the picture that I had shown previously are drawn by them. That day we couldn't do much. That sickening IT technician don't want to install Adobe Photoshop on their computer. Wilson said that it has already happened lots of time. I feel like slapping him also, always give that idiot face. Anyway we still managed to do other stuffs to let the kids learn.

Now for Tanjong Katong Secondary, it is Manga Art! I got partnered with Emma, who was a part-timer trainee. He graduated from SP Diploma in Digital Media. At first before the day start he came to office for briefing. I kept recalling whether was it my friend. I seem to know him before. Luckily I asked him yesterday. Surprisingly both of us met each other before. We were both manga artist last time who went for the MangaFest at Suntec last time. Both of us do sure have common interest! :D

We are teaching Secondary 1 students for Manga Art. You know what? Idiotically, their school uses Manga Art drawings as their CA1 marks for their Art subject. If last time we have this chance, maybe most of us can already scored. Worst of all each of students were equipped with Lyra Pencil Set. I didn't even have a Lyra set till I was Primary 6. I don't even want to use it, they are fine quality pencils. I had to handle them with care. Likewise their theme was Youth Olympics (YOG), they are to draw manga character of the sports they wanted. Most of them I see that they can't draw well, or either they read/knew about manga but don't know how to start with it. Some of them can draw basic human anatomy, while some still drawing jelly-looking humans. So you can see wobbly arms like Mr Jelly. Weirdest thing was their class seating arrangement for all classes are spilt between females and males. I am not sure are they seating in register numbers or just being assigned. They are rather well-behaved and easy to maintain.

I will soon be taking over the teaching for Manga Art for Tanjong Katong classes. I strongly feel that I can teach better than Emma, so supervisor gave me the chance to take over. Moreover he said I have an artist hand, when I went for the interview. I was suppose to on the spot to draw out a manga. To me I think I wasn't draw a manga at all at the time, I thought I did failed. I think he was rather looking at the fundamental of drawings I had while drawing. I have lost touch of drawing for more than 2 years already. Now I have to practice drawing my manga art again. :D Posted by Purity And Simplicity at 02:20