Animation academy

[Susie63]

....and if it is something you enjoy ,you can buy books that show you how to draw the characters at off the page. We bought Mickey & friends $10,Phineas & Ferb $10 and the princessess $20.There were others but I don't remember who they were.

 

[cats mom]

Do you think an art inclined 4 yr old would do ok? If we have time it might be fun to see what she can do.

ITA with pharmama, it really depends on the child.

I've seen little ones happily doing their best, I've also seen parents dealing with obviously frustrated children, and more than once I've seen the instructor give their drawing to a child who was so upset with the experience they were actually in tears.

Bottom line, some 4 years olds might love it, others tolerate it, and others hate it.

I'd definitely make sure younger children understand things will move quickly, it's just for fun, and their drawing doesn't have to be perfect. Sheesh, I sometimes need to remind myself of those points.


Edited to add:

BTW, I sat next to a working artist one session. She had purchased a special sketchbook to bring to AA so she could keep all her sketches without dealing with the huge rolls of paper. I thought that was a great idea. She let me take a peek and her drawings were amazing!

 

[rms123]

She'll probably do ok then. It'll look like a picasso, but she won't care and will be proud of it

 

[bumbershoot]

Do you think an art inclined 4 yr old would do ok? If we have time it might be fun to see what she can do.

I can't remember the ages of all of this anymore, but we've been going to the AA for a few years now.

At first, DS was happy to try to follow along and get whatever he got.

Then he started getting REALLY frustrated, and he would compare himself heavily to me and DH. It all went too fast for him, and so for that period of time we encouraged him to draw *whatever he wants*. There was about a year in there of robots and monsters on his papers, and that was totally OK. They were GREAT robots and monsters, and it kept him happy and quiet.

Then he wanted to try again, but got really judgy about his drawings. At that point we had to take our pictures down from the walls, because they made him sad to see his awesome efforts against our efforts. He just couldn't get that we've had years of experience and DH is really very artistic anyway, and that DS's pictures were far better than ours in our eyes and relative to our ages and experience. We wanted him to be comfy and happy in his home, so we took them down.

Now when we do it he is getting quite good, but he still doesn't want them up on the walls.


I will say that Skellington is AWESOME to draw and it's the one really REALLY good (not even relative to age/experience) picture DS has done.

Whereas Daisy Duck looks like a skull for almost the entire picture until you finish her up, and I, as an adult, was actually scared of my drawing (and of the animator's) for almost the whole class. It's not the same with Donald for some reason. I never want to draw Daisy again, LOL.

 

[rms123]

Reporting back - our 4 yr old had a great time. We all drew Donald and with imagination you can see it in hers too. She requested going there instead of a ride.

 

[mamaCta]

My DD3 loves to color and draw, so I'm pretty sure she will gladly sit there and "draw" while the rest of us are working on the lesson. I can't wait.

 

[pharmama]

Reporting back - our 4 yr old had a great time. We all drew Donald and with imagination you can see it in hers too. She requested going there instead of a ride.

Thanks for reporting back! Always nice to get the follow up. And I'm so glad she had a great time!!

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[Jrsy Boy]

The teacher also gives away their drawing, usually to someone in the first couple of rows with a birthday button or some such.

The first time we tried it, the artist said at the end that my MIL looked like she was having so much fun that he gave her his drawing.

The following year, DS wanted to draw Tigger and announced to the artist that Tigger was his favorite character, so the artist gave his drawing to DS at the end.

The last time we were there, we went in to draw Jack Skellington and I was hoping to get the artist's drawing so we sat right up front and I was wearing my Nightmare hoodie but this artist didn't give his drawing away to anyone.

 

[TwingleMum]

My boys (9,9, 12) all loved the Animation Academy. We went multiple times.

 

[mysteriouspnai]

The first time we tried it, the artist said at the end that my MIL looked like she was having so much fun that he gave her his drawing.

The following year, DS wanted to draw Tigger and announced to the artist that Tigger was his favorite character, so the artist gave his drawing to DS at the end.

The last time we were there, we went in to draw Jack Skellington and I was hoping to get the artist's drawing so we sat right up front and I was wearing my Nightmare hoodie but this artist didn't give his drawing away to anyone.

You can always take your chances and ask for it DBF and I got an artist's Donald sketch that way. We just asked for it after class was over.