Professor Buzzington

A few more Professor Buzzington for the first set of lessons for The League of Travelers. There's a new character that will make an appearance in the near future. After all, the professor cannot run the entire league by himself!

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Online Art Lessons Almost Ready

Back to work on The League of Travelers this week on the first ebook, to go online hopefully as part of the "soft" launch by summer's end.

This ebook will include:
- Introduction to The League
- Lesson 1
- Project 1
- Link to Lessons 2-4

Here's a shot of my computer screen as I take a look at the overall document so far:

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Village Banners for the League of Travelers

I finished the first version of village banner designs for The League of Travelers program.
These will probably get refined later on, but for now, this is enough to get things in place.

 

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League Of Travelers Logo and Banners

I've been working on upgrading the League of Travelers logo a bit, closer to what I'm envisioning. There might be a little more tweaking in the future, but for now, it'll be good enough for the phase 0.5  launch, hopefully at the end of summer... keep your fingers crossed!

Also creating banners for the adventure aspect of the program. I'll post these again as they get done.

 

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Getting Your Traveler Boots #4

The final post regarding this page - finished!

The way this works is you - the reader - are a character in the story. "You" are the one in front of this young man receiving your boots and gloves, which "you" are trying in at the 2nd to last panel.

All comic book sequences in The League of Art Travelers stories and expeditions will be presented in this manner, with the student being part of the story.

For the complete progression of this panel, see:
Traveler Boots
Traveler Boots #2
Traveler Boots #3
Traveler Boots #4 (this page)
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Getting Your Traveler Boots #3

Now working on the final version of this sequence - for The League of Art Travelers.
This is as far as I got last night.

For the complete progression of this panel, see:
Traveler Boots
Traveler Boots #2
Traveler Boots #3 (this page
Traveler Boots #4
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Getting Your Traveler Boots #2

Here's the complete sequence sketched out. I took yesterday's page and re-did the last two panels into four.
This is for the adventure aspect of The League of Art Travelers.
 

For the complete progression of this panel, see:
Traveler Boots
Traveler Boots #2 (this page)
Traveler Boots #3
Traveler Boots #4
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Getting Your Traveler Boots

Sketching ideas for the story element on The League of Art Travelers.
Here the Traveler has completed the training and is receiving his or her "traveler boots".
I'm actually expanding the last 2 frames into 4:

For a complete progression of this panel, see:
Traveler Boots (this page)
Traveler Boots #2
Traveler Boots #3
Traveler Boots #4

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Craft And Sculpture Tokens

It's been a while since I've created new tokens for the online art lesson program.
I felt inspired to work on the program this afternoon and created these 2: sculpture and craft

Badges coming up next.


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Level Pins and Egyptologist Badges

With school starting soon I've been busy the past 2 weeks with cleaning the classroom and getting lessons in order, and the never ending stream of teacher meetings and training for this past week.
Thank goodness the kids are coming in next Monday!

I'm still slowly adding to my collection of Tokens and Badges for The League of Art Traveler project.

Check out the newest Adventure Token & Badges: Egyptology

And, I've finalized the Basic Level Pins, yeah!
Here's a few of the series:

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Coloring Pencil Badges

I have two new sets of Tokens and Badges finished today, and a couple more in the making:



For more details about these, go to
The League of Art Travelers

 

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Coloring Pencil Badges

For The League of Art Travelers:

Found a few minutes to work on this new Token and the start of the Badge series: for the Color Pencil art skill. This is a picture of my computer screen, with the circle Token and Basic Level 1 in square. (see link above for more info).

Little by little, I'm going to get there...
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Charts and Expedition Pages

Update on The League of Art Travelers project: a couple shots of my computer screen.

In the first one I am working on the stat charts students will fill out as they go through their art expeditions. These pages have been filled out partially as an example.

The first form is to log in progress for various Tokens earned through the expeditions. These will be generously handed out throughout missions. Each 3 Token for a particular skill earns a level for that skill.
The second form logs in missions (3-5) per expedition. Levels are gained through the number of missions completed. I will also rename that one to something less clinical ... maybe "Mission & Levels", as that is what it does.

I'm doing a general run through for the first expedition, with boxes and placements to be filled with illustrations and other elements critical to that particular story later on.
What you see here is the start of Mission #1 of the expedition, with Objectives listed and the adventure part of laying out the scene and introducing characters. 

It's all work in progress really, so anything you see here might change dramatically before it gets to the finished line - and that's part of the fun of creating these adventures!
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Advanced Level Pins for The League of Art Travelers

These are the still work in progress though I think I have the general feel of what I want.
I'll clean up the design and decide on a texture next.

This is the Advanced Level for The League of Art Travelers.
Levels 1, 5, 8 & 10:

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Level Pins for League of Art Travelers

Things have been so busy I have not worked on this project in a while now. The good news is I am back at it.
This is for The League of Art Travelers project.

I did a first run of the Level Pins from 1 to 10 for the Basic or Introductory Level.

The Apprentice pin is given when a student signs up for the first course/training. Once they complete this initial mandatory step, they become a "Traveler" and can progress up the Levels.

These following ones are for Levels 1-10.
Here are Levels 2, 5 & 10:

I'll post examples of the advanced level next.
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League of Travelers Logo and New Name

I am re-naming The League of Travelers to "The League of Art Travelers" to better include the obvious main keyword to the point of the site and program, namely, "Art".

The logo is done! And very cool at that. Here it is, with the lovely Arctic Tern as mascot:

I've got the first set of Badges done too.
"Tokens" are earned throughout Art Expeditions. Levels are earned as these tokens accumulate.

The set below goes as follows:
- round = Token - earned everytime a student completes an assignment requiring paint.
- square = Basic - Levels 1, 2, 3
- shield = Expert - Levels 1, 2, 3

There is a Master category that is not done yet.

I'll post each set as I get them done. I will also start updating the site with a little more information soon. You can sign up for updates on the site if you'e like, which I will start sending out as I get these various elements done.

Do you have middle / high school kids at home? I'll be looking for kids to try this out at no cost in the next few month. Sign up for updates for more info as we get closer to that particular step.
There'll be prizes for the kids ... :)

PS - yep, there is a typo! I'll fix and update.
Updated with corrected image, LOL.
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League of Travelers Badges

Another series of sketches for The League Of Travelers tokens and badges:
I have about 30 minutes maybe twice a week to sketch ... so progress is slow. It's progress nonetheless.

Spring Break is coming up and I can't wait to scan and get colors on these, which I will post here of course.
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Logo and Badges

The League Of Travelers logo is all figured out with the Arctic Tern at its center. I'm very happy with the way it's going to look.
The other drawings are for Level Pins (the winged boot) and a start on tokens and badges for various skills students will earn as they go through the lessons.

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The League of Travelers Logos

I've been working in possible logos for The League Of Travelers project and have found the perfect mascot: the Arctic Tern.

It's a beautiful sea bird and the farthest traveling migratory bird - which is the reason I picked it.
It has an overall white body varying from very light gray to dark gray. It also has a black spot on the top of its head.

Here are the rough ideas for logos level pins:

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Professor Buzzinghton

I've been spending a lot of time lately on this huge project of mine: creating an online art course with an adventure worked into it.

Introducing, Professor Buzzinghton, in charge of taking the new recruits through the Traveler Training Course.
For The League Of Travelers project:

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