Tonight, at Children's Art Club, the children learned about Eastern Asian art, particularly from countries including China, Japan, and Korea. After the presentation was over, I taught older elementary school and middle school age children how to draw manga. I reviewed with them where manga came from and what characteristics manga had. I then showed them an example of some manga I bought straight from Japan when I went there in 2007, and then I showed them some American-styled comics and asked them to contrast the two styles. Afterward, I gave them a demonstration on how to draw their own manga faces, and gave them each their own sheet that contained examples of manga-styled eyes and hairstyles. Some of the children really liked learning about and drawing manga, some of the other children were not interested in the lesson at all, and preferred to draw in their own style.
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