There are some examples to use to copy from to support the students learning. Tim Burton’s scenes are often dark and atmospheric and this is an ideal opportunity to practise drawing with white chalk, charcoal or black soft pastel on black sugar paper and to do a drawing of one of his black and white characters. Students draw out the character and then colour this in. Some of the You tube film clips are linked on the slides as well. Further developing a character drawing and students are to look at the number of different slides and these could be printed off for students and letting them develop their own character. The slides give a number of the silhouette type scenes for students to use for inspiration. Then developing a cut out in black paper looking at the strange, Gothic type black and white silhouettes of some of his scenes and making a page on his settings using black paper and cut-outs. Layering pencil and black pen in drawing when copying Burton’s work Photocopy examples for students to work from to print off. Starting with presenting a title page for Tim Burton and copying some of his scenes by practising pencil tone and mark making. This also has a few quizzes and student examples of work to support the tasks.

In this project there are a number of skills, pencil drawingwith pen work, chalk and charcoal drawing on black paper, making a black and white silhouette cut out, collaging harcoal drawing onto bottle and painting bottle, further developing a character on a bottle and making a wool paper character. A powerpoint outlining some tasks for a Key Stage 3 project on Tim Burton.

Tim burton characters drawings