School Sports Day On-the-Spot Cartoon Sketches 2011

Sports day in the morning is fine. But it wasn't fine if everybody had to be baked under the sun from 8 - 11am.

Imagine if your teacher-in-charge is sleeping and holding the line...

Listen to instructions. Hold on to the strings. Not tie and go away.
Especially if you are talking about a running event.

Bulldog Cartoon - Illustrated on my iPad using Inkpad

Rough pencil sketch of bulldog on paper. I took a photo using my iPhone had it transferred to my iPad. I then adjusted the brightness and contrast of the photo using PS Express. Next I import the adjusted image into Inkpad and started my illustration of the Bulldog in various layers.

Completed illustration of Bulldog on my iPad.

Habits of Minds (HOM) - Listening with Understanding and Empathy Cartoons

If you wonder how I got my cartoons done up so quickly for my classes, here is an example of my sketches during my morning break cum preparation a few days before lesson. If I draw with a pen, then no further inking. If I draw them with a pencil, the next stage will be inking with a pen. Next I will use my iPhone to snap a photo, edit it in iPad, send it to my email from which I will print multiple copies for my students. Cool hey?

For prints, I will ink them in illustrator. But for classroom use sometimes I had to be swift and fast. =) My students enjoyed my cartoons. Ya?


Cartoons drawn for my students for classroom teaching and engagements. Printed and given to all. =)

Habits of Minds (HOM) - Managing Impulsivity Cartoons

Victim of Impulsivity

Do not become a victim to 'impulsivity'. Pressures to perform or do well in studies may lead to over-eating for some people. Coveting for something that is not yours may lead someone to attempt to steal. Those actions are acts of 'impulse'. Make sure you learn to manage your thinking before you act. See below.

Managing Impulsivity

 Next time you feel the urge or impulse to do something you know is not right, you can use the 'Traffic Light' method to help you. Red means 'STOP'. Stop what you are tempted to do. Amber means 'THINK'. Think about the consequences and effects upon yourselves and the people around you IF you fall victim to your impulsivity and do (or say) the wrong things. And once you considered carefully, make sure you respond rightly instead. i.e. 'GO' the green light. 

In the example above, you could have asked for money to buy the things you want, (note that you may not always get what you wanted), but if you asked and got the money to buy the pens, you need not be afraid to be caught! If you managed your impulsivity with the urge to eat when stressed with schoolwork and instead went for a walk to relax your mind, you will end up healthier and fresher when you get back to work later on.

If only I managed my impulsivity. If only...

Many people do the wrong things without first considering what might be the consequences. Then later regret what they did. Most of the time, the consequences to those wrong deeds not only affect the person, but the people around him. So remember always (1) 'STOP' - stop what you are tempted to do (get into an argument, steal, lie, etc), to (2) 'THINK' - how should you respond rightly instead and finally (3) choose to do the RIGHT thing - 'GO'! You will save for yourself LOTS of unnecessary trouble later on!

Summary

Do not simply act (on impulse) because you feel like it, or think like it or want to. Sometimes our feelings can fool us if we do not consider them carefully. So remember the TRAFFIC LIGHT method. Its easy.

 Cartoons drawn for my students for classroom teaching and engagements. 

Four Levels of Behaviours

Cartoons drawn for my class during break times. Printed and given out to allow them to monitor their own behaviours and to act as reminder to choose to behave responsibly.

Forced to Rate Favourably... Politically correctness.

Politically correctness.

Education Cartoon: Singapore Electronic Road Pricing (ERP)

Requested by a teacher to draw a cartoon on ERP for classroom teaching.
Drawn on paper. Colored on my iPad.