Here we have a group vigorously engaged in some kind of raquet game. The P has just smashed for a score, although we can’t quite make out what it is he hit. Perhaps we should call the game squash?
Month: December 2023
Kind
What do you think the letters of KIND are saying?
Totem
My version of the Indian Totem Pole. The individual letters are talking: Top T “I can see forever. I’m on top of you other guys.” O “Brag, brag brag!” Other T “I feel left out” E “How dya think I feel?” M “I’m happy where I am right now.”
What do you think they’re saying?
Munch
Love those munchies. Do they love you?
Be Alone
Listen. It’s good for each of us to find personal time with quiet thoughts.
CHEERS!
Make today one to win!
Snuggle (from the Cold Weather Channel)
The weather man always declares a Snuggle Alert when he forecasts a cold night. This is my notice.
eyes
Most of my WordToons are doodled using block letters. Here I decided to combine with line letters. This allows me to express the word emphasizing the two es to become the major characters, There are endless possibilities for making words into visual statements.
Calm
Here is my illustration of how a particular word can become a WordToon telling you about itself. Even these simple line letters can express the meaning in many ways. This is the essence of WordToons. Take a short word such as FUN and see how many ways you can express it just in line letters. This is the fun of it.
Doodling: Mack Rowe’s Lesson on WordToons #1
As I was doodling one day, I had an idea. Why not turn words into pictures? I imagined that a word could express itself without being in a sentence. Sounded like fun, so I tried it—and WordToons was born. I found it to be a lot of fun and doodled one or two a day for entertainment. Then it occurred to me that anyone can do this. Everybody doodles! It’s a simple idea to get a word to tell about itself—to show what it means. Or it can be funny. No special training necessary. And, since I like to teach, I imagined that I could teach anyone to do it for self entertainment. I did— to high schoolers, retirees, and jail inmates! None were artists, they certainly could doodle! And they did it in a couple of sessions. They understood that doodling is not done for a grade or for evaluation. They are done for personal
And you can too.
Here’s how it works: Begin with a white sheet of paper and a pencil
1 Start by lettering the word, run, on the paper. All caps will get you into expressing it better
2 Now Doodle it in outline large. Don’t worry about accuracy. Just doodle. Do it more than once. It’ll change as you go. That’s OK. Begin to see some action? We’ll keep going.
3 Now add action lines. Enlarge the letters again. You’ll see why. 
4 Next let’s doodle the letters even larger and animate them with exaggeration. Add faces and hands and shoes! How fast are we going now?
5 If We want to go further, let’s add some sweat drops, hair feet.
6 And now, time to erase pencil lines and then ink in with black ballpoint. You’re ready to color for the finale. You can use colored pencils, watercolor markers—double ended for choice of coloring tip sizes. Keep your color on the light side. Dark color tends to darken the details.
For hands just doodle three fingers and a thumb for simplicity. look at your own hands. the feet are simple quick outlines.
And all kinds of face expressions can give added meaning to your doodled wordtoons. And also try looking in a mirror.
