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Balloon Hedgehog: Make a Place for the Story
Make a cartoon setting with a character featuring a hedgehog with a balloon. The character wants to deliver a party balloon, but worries about the balloon touching its spines. One possible ending: it carries the string on a long cardboard handle. Invent a different kind ending if you prefer.
Character reference shared across ten skill lessons—not a picture of the completed assignment. Study the example for possibilities, then close or cover it. Your work should make different choices.
Story starter and example
The character wants to deliver a party balloon, but worries about the balloon touching its spines. One possible ending: it carries the string on a long cardboard handle. Invent a different kind ending if you prefer. The character is largest near the important object. Three simple environmental clues locate the action without filling every space.
What to do
- Your finished project is a cartoon setting with a character featuring a hedgehog with a balloon. Read the story seed: The character wants to deliver a party balloon, but worries about the balloon touching its spines. One possible ending: it carries the string on a long cardboard handle. Invent a different kind ending if you prefer.
- Start with small face, rounded spiny back, and round balloon. These are helpful shapes, not a tracing template.
- Choose an ordinary place where this problem could happen. Draw two small arrangements.
- Place the main character and prop first. Add only three background clues that explain the location or problem.
- Use overlap and a clear ground line; keep background marks quieter than the character’s outline.
- Ask a partner where the scene happens and what they notice first. Remove or move one distracting detail. Compare two arrangements and revise one unclear visual clue after peer feedback.
My project: a cartoon setting with a character featuring a hedgehog with a balloon. My chosen ending is…
Two small setting plans…
Three useful place clues are…
The viewer should look first at… One distracting detail to change…
Story clue: How will I show that the character worries about the balloon touching its spines?
Before feedback, I wanted the reader to notice… The reader actually noticed…
Revision: I changed… because…
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