By Sheila Ceccarelli

In these two sessions teenage students helped me work out a simple project to teach my younger pupils, at my new ‘Making Club’, how to make an articulated drawing with only very basic materials.

Teenagers fully embraced the project and worked creatively and intuitively on engineering solutions to articulate drawings and immediate ways to animate the end results.

Teenagers worked very quickly and all was achieved in two, 1&1/2 hour sessions.

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Many thanks for teenagers at AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing Class and their parents as well as teachers from Garden Fields JMI School, St Albans for inspiring this post.

Happy sketchbooking and have a wonderful summer!