Not surprised by the activity, Jace stuffed his writing implements inside his bag and listened to the professor’s instructions. An existing cartoon character, eh? Well, the character in his mind is rather old...probably older than his grandfather, but knew it will fit him well.

Sliding off his seat, the Ravenclaw got up front to get himself paper, and colouring materials. He was no artist, but he will take time to make it perfect. After getting all the stuff he needs, Jace automatically inclined his head towards the woman up front, and went back to his seat beside Katherine and Azura.

In his seat, Jace took his muggle pencil out, and started to draw the character’s head...and added his own features to its face. The Ravenclaw however, paused...and grinned to himself because he looked a lot like his chosen cartoon character. Pencil scratching against paper, Jace was in his own world as he slowly focused on the task at hand.

Hold up, now they were supposed to draw themselves as a cartoon person thing? She had no idea how to do that....or what anything other than the slides she was shown looked like. Henric had a few comical picture type books with those hero people....did that count? She was going to try at least...so she got some supplies and looked at her parchment for a bit, deciding how best to do this.

They were to draw themselves as cartoons? Cornelius' went WILD. Like...he could be anything he wanted. The Slytherin boy wiggled in his seat, not ready to go up and collect supplies just yet. He needed to plan this out before he got distracted by colours and ideas that would surely pop out the moment he got the cardboard. Which is why he had to plan now. Or else he'll end up with a roadrunner body, Godzilla's legs and sphinx wings.

Like.....no.

BUT. Creativity was already surging through his mind. So he started by drawing his head and adding his gorgeous curls. Cornelius wasn't an artist, not by far, but he was liking his little self portrait so far.

At least a few people shared her thoughts of television shows in general. It wasn't about how a show was made, it was whether or not a show was enjoyable. Just as with most things. If you didn't like it you wouldn't do it no matter what it was about or how fun or how many of your friends were doing it.

She was still taking down notes silently however the lessons task caught her attention fully. They were supposed to be drawing today. Not just any drawing...themselves as cartoons. This was BIG. Hady had never been much of a drawer really. Sure she liked it and sketched here and there but over the last year or so her sketches and art work really took off due to her lessons with Professor Finch. This was truly awesome for her and meant another chance to refocus her newfound skills.

Reaching down and grabs her bag off the floor by her feet. Looking through it pulls out another pencil, her own sharpener and a box of colored pencils. Setting her bag back on the floor she pushed her notes aside and set out a clean sheet of parchment in front of herself. Sharpening one of her pencils she placed the tip against the paper and got to work instantly allowing her thoughts to form on the paper. Slowly lines began to join other lines and a form began to take shape. It was a work in progress and it would take a few minutes at least until her idea was formed on the paper.

Oh yay, they were going to draw themselves as animation characters! Carl could barely contain his excitement as he listened to Professor Stewart's instructions. He thought about his many favorite characters and decided on one quickly. He was not good at drawing, but was determined to try his best.

The Second Year got up from his seat and went up to the front to grab the art supplies. Crayons, eraser and sharpener from the first box and a few sheets of paper from the second, just in case he wanted to start over. He went back to his seat, a rough idea of his work already forming itself in his mind.

Carl took out his pencil and started to draw the head of Superman, with angled jaw and chin. The main difference between his drawing and the real character was the hair. No curl on the forehead. It was going to be blonde, of course, but he was not at the coloring stage yet.

Ooooh noooo! They had to draw. Janelle didn't really mind drawing, actually she rather liked it. The problem was, she was pretty horrible at it. At least that was her opinion on the matter. There was no getting around this task, however, so Janelle would just have to deal with it.

Janelle got up from her seat and headed toward the front of the room. She looked over the supplies and finally decided on some colored pencils and an eraser. Then she grabbed several sheets of paper. She would likely need several back ups because........mistakes happened.

Janelle went back to her seat and sat down. She took one sheet of paper and laid it on the desk in front of her. Okay......time to get started. First though, she needed to think about what she would be drawing. Bugs Bunny of course, but how was she going to turn the rabbit into Janelle rabbit? What physical traits would she needed to include? Well her hair would be the first thing, maybe the only thing. Janelle picked up a gray pencil and began to outline the rabbit's head, taking special care with the ears.. She glanced at the Bugs Bunny picture to help her along. Thank goodness she had a model to work from.

The worm was finished within five minutes though it took up more than half her sheet. She also drew several other smaller worms next to it so that there were nine in all - not including the huge one that she was riding. Now it was time to draw herself, which was infinitely trickier to her gthan drawing the worms had been.

First she drew the wire shape for her body - making it lean forward since she was on top of her worm. Once the basic wire frame was finished she moved on details such as hair and the cape. The fact that the cape was flying in the air behind her made it easier to draw since she didn't have to worry about the nuance that would come with blending it into her back. Her hair she decided to keep tied up with ribbons like how she was wearing it right now.

Janelle had her rabbit head outlined. She took a black pencil and outlined the eyes. Then she added the pupils, leaving the rest of the eyes white. Then leaving a heart shape on the face white, she made a brick red mouth. Then a regular red pencil was used to make a tongue. Janelle couldn't forget those buck teeth. It wouldn't be Bugs Bunny without those teeth. The head was almost finished. Janelle took a pink pencil and colored in the center of the rabbit's ears. Finally, she grabbed the black pencil again and made whiskers.

Janelle decided to outline the rest of the rabbit's body before Janellizing her. She guessed that her rabbit would have to wear clothes, so she'd have to figure that out. Janelle lightly drew the torso then added the arms, legs and feet. She'd have to add the body details, but maybe after she added the clothes. The big question was, was this drawing going to look anything like Bugs Bunny? It might end up being a hot mess, but she'd give it her best shot.

Alright, art. That wasn't too bad. Olly liked to draw and paint and stuff, not that he was necessarily good at it but it was fun anyway. He made his way to the front of the classroom to collect some supplies. Two pieces of paper, in case he messed up the first one. Several crayons, one of each color that he could see. One pencil and one eraser, so he could sketch it out first before coloring it in. All the while he was thinking about what he wanted to draw.

It had to be themselves in an existing cartoon? Not just a drawing of themselves as an animated character that they made up? Whatever, both ideas were cool so he didn't really care. Olly was still thinking of Scooby Doo and tried to remember other things his dad had told him about it. There was a group of them that solved mysteries. And they had a van they drove around in.

He decided to just go with it, and set to work. First he took the pencil and started drawing the van. He wanted it to be in the background since he seemed to remember it being a major part of the show. That was pretty easy to draw. The harder part was drawing him as the cartoon character standing in front of the van, but he got it to work. He surveyed the sketch and fixed a few more details until he was satisfied, then got to work with the coloring.

Jace continued with his drawing, and in between, he'd occassionally bring his eraser and redo some of the lines. The Ravenclaw didn't have to edit the face since the chaacter has the same eyes as his, and even the hair. He just had to remove the small bun on top of the character's head and he was done with the face.

With the body, again, he didn't have to edit much because it's exactly how he wants to look like!

Done with his pencil drawings, he got his coloured pencils and began to colour in his drawing...

Azura started to sketch out the head. It was sort of an oval, with two ears, and a few tufts of fur. She wasn't going to change much about the outline of Shinx, it was its colors she was going to change!

She finished sketching in the eyes, the adorable open mouth, the four sided stars on the ears before she put her pencil down..

Mmmm, it was good enough.

Now for coloring it in!!

She picked up her back crayon and started to color in the feet, part of the tail, and a little fur around its neck black! Purple came next, of course it was getting purple eyes like she was. Because this was her! Purple got added to the top of the tail, the bands around its feet and the tuft of hair it its ears! The rest of the body she colored in a light pink, one of her favorite colors, a red mouth..

And she was done!!

She carefully labeled it..

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Azura Kennedy
2nd year
Ravenclaw

And then she took her picture up to the Professor.

SPOILER!!: Azura Shinx

"This is the Pokemon Shinx as me, I gave it purple eyes, just like me!" she said as she lay her picture on the Professors desk.

Katherine rolled her eyes, even though she did smile at the joke. Okay okay, it WAS funny, but he was also being so so unfair! It had been a very legitimate fear, okay? Taming them or boom-pow-kicking them or whatever would not have worked at all!

"You're mean!" she whispered at him with a small smile, before Blaise began talking. She listened closely to what he had to say, because it sounded like he was talking about his silly obsession of being unable to perform magic. She agreed with his point (which didn't have much to do with his obsession, thankfully), but of course didn't say a word. He wasn't her friend anymore, and she had to remember that.

Ah, it was activity tim -

Lolnopeshewasout. Okay not really, but she didn't draw. She just didn't. She examined the material offered to them, and watched people a little to see what they were doing - and they were all drawing. However... Jaemin walked up to the professor to ask whether he could stay out, and SHE wanted to stay out too, so she carefully and not discreetly at all listened.

She was doing that thing that adults did to him all the time. The one where they acted like he didn't know himself well enough, or was just underestimating himself. It always made his skin prickle when they did it, and the small Slytherin made a rather unpleasant face.

"I don't think I'm bad at it. I know I'm not good at it." There was a very distinct difference there, at least to him, and it was evident he felt so by the bluntness with which he spoke. "I can't be good at everything."

He was smart, and quick. The tradeoff for these blessings was that he couldn't draw more than plant diagrams or rudimentary things. Certainly nothing anywhere nearing a cartoon character. And he was okay with that, especially since everyone else at Hogwarts seemed to be an accomplished artist. It wasn't his fault the professor had decided on an activity he couldn't do. It was with this thought that Jaemin stood up and went about packing his things back together before heading for the door.

He had been told he could go, and so he would.

Now that he was satisfied with his outline, it was time to add the color. He had a lot of colors of crayon in front of him so he carefully made his selections. Blue for the base color of the van, he decided. He seemed to remember that the colors were bright, and not what you would typically expect for a van, though he could not remember the exact colors. So he did blue, then picked up the purple and added a design in that. But it still needed something else. He decided on flowers and colored some of those on.

Olly couldn't remember all the characters who solved mysteries with Scooby, but he knew there were a couple. He had done a quick sketch of a man standing up, and colored it in. How to make sure it looked like him was the hard part. In the end he decided to color blonde hair, which he thought that character had anyway, and colored his clothes green and silver. That was good enough, right? A blonde Slytherin.

They were going to be drawing? Hmm... Fiyero thought this was Muggle Studies, not art class! But he wasn't complaining. Art had been one of his favorite subjects at the school he attended before Hogwarts, and his teachers told him he had a talent fir drawing. At least he wasn't as bad at it as his dad, right?

He examined the supplies at the front of the room fir a minute before selecting a handful of crayons and three sheets of paper. He probably wouldn't need that many tries to get it right, but at least it was better safe than sorry. He alreafy knew exactly which cartoon character he was going to draw by the time he returned to his desk: Ash Ketchum from Pokemon.

Fiyero started with a rough outline if Ash's head. After refining the shape a bit, he added the facial featured, some hair, and Ash's trademark hat - it took him several tries to get the hat right! He looked over the work he'd done so far, but he wasn't exactly happy with it. Something seemed off.

After a few.minutes, Fiyero realized it was the hair that seemed all wrong. His hair wasn't as long and choppy-looking as Ash's, and Professor Stewart had said to draw himself as the character. Surely she wouldn't mind if he gave the drawing a hairstyle more similar to his own!

WHAT?! People were finishing up already?! Rooney was completely torn between rushing himself to also finish and leave because he had things to do... and taking his sweeeeeeet time to make this perfect because he was that person. He wasn't going to turn in work without actually spending the best amount of time he could on it. And if it went wrong -- OH HE HAD THOUGHT TOO SOON. With a disappointed huff, Rooney screwed up the paper on top of his pile, flicked it across the classroom to the floor and started afresh. With new concentration and a new pencil.

This would be a new project.

Starting with the body, he worked with his tongue sticking out. SUPER DETERMINED. Bye bye early drawers. Bye bye talented speedy people. HELLOOOO WORKING ON A MASTERPIECE. Roo drew lightly on his paper, so it would be easy enough to rub away should he make a a mistake again. Concentration lay perfectly all over his face as her got the outline down perfectly. Now he just...needed to get the colourings right...

Hadley had to think about the next question more carefully. She liked both to be honest. "I think it depends on the story and such. Like, a lot of the old 2D fit their story, like Lilo and Stitch. And a lot of the 3D ones fit their story." Like How To Train Your Dragon. She shrugged and got up to grab supplies.

There were only two things that Hadley could draw, because she drew them all the time as a kid. The first was, of course, lions. She wasn't a gifted artist by any means but years of drawing them over and over again did pay off.

Hmmm, she could make herself into Nala from The Lion King. Hadley started to sketch on the paper, her tongue poking out of her mouth like it did whenever she was really focused on a drawing as a kid. It was like riding a bicycle to be honest. Her hand remembered how to draw them and took over on its own.

Just one problem.

It was Nala the lioness...but not Hadley as Nala the lioness. Now she just had to figure out how to make Nala her...

Yeah, uh...

The facial featured were the easy part; now came.the hard part: the body. For some reason, Fiyero could never get the body proportions right! He started an outline of a figure but quickly erased it. Too wide! He tried again; now it wasn't wide enough.

One he finally had the figure done, he was able.to move on to the limbs. Whoops... arms too long, Fiyero thought, erasing his first attempt. He snickered; the drawing of Ash with freakishly long arms was pretty funny! But it probably wasn't what Professor Stewart had in mind...

Fiyero sighed; now it was time for his least favorite part, the handa. He couldn't draw hands to save his life! They always turned out big and blocky and unnatural-looking. After several tries, Fiyero finally gave up trying to draw a realistic hand and decided he'd better settle for what he already had. He might run out of time if he didn't!

Whoooop whoop.

They were drawing.... cartoons of themselves. Kat know exactly how she was going to make herself as a cartoon character. This was going to be awesome. She couldn't wait to get started on it.

She started out with a rough draft drawing out the outline of it. Now that she could get over to the supplies since the others had gone. Hopefully everything she needed would still be there.

The second year skipped over and grabbed the supplies that she needed, minus one thing she didn't see that she needed "Professor Stewart? Do you have any glitter?" Maybe in her excitement over the assignment she over looked it.

Glitter was an important element to her cartoon creation.

Crumple. Crumple. Crumple. Adding Hair to Nala made her look like a weird male lion. She had tried it three times so far and each one came out worse than the previous. So hair wasn't working. Time to try something else.

Hadley grabbed a new sheet of paper and started over again, sketching out Nala the lioness once again. And this time she focused on the face trying to adjust the features to look more like her. It was good in theory and had she been an artist of any caliber, maybe, just maybe, she could have pulled it off. As it was though, she wanted to incendio this monstrosity. She would have too, if it wouldn't have gotten her detention, probably. Crumple.

Now what? Hadley was at a loss for what else to try to make Nala into her. Or her into Nala. Accessories just seemed ridiculous as The Lion King had gone for fairly realistic. She gave up.

Time to think of a different character. One that she could actually draw...Ooooh!

Arts and crafts was something that Esme could ALWAYS get behind. Especially when it involved something that she enjoyed, like cartoons.
Right away she knew what she wanted to draw: Pikachu. Her favourite for as long as she could remember because adorable. On top of that yellow was one of her favourite colours because it was so calming and peaceful. Besides, who DIDN'T love Pokemon?? It was one of her favourite cartoons along with Power Puff Girls. She already knew full well that Juno was going to be drawing Buttercup.

As soon as she had gathered all the supplies that she would need to begin, Esme got to work. This had to be absolutely perfect and she would make fifty million copies of the drawing if need be. Just as long as it ended up as she pictured it in her head.

Kay kept on walking among the students, ocassionally stopping at one as she enjoyed watching them work. "You've got an eye for detail,'' she told one before moving on. "You have a real talent for colouring,'' she told another. It was safe to say she was really, really, really proud of her students.

SPOILER!!: Az! *__*

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Azura started to sketch out the head. It was sort of an oval, with two ears, and a few tufts of fur. She wasn't going to change much about the outline of Shinx, it was its colors she was going to change!

She finished sketching in the eyes, the adorable open mouth, the four sided stars on the ears before she put her pencil down..

Mmmm, it was good enough.

Now for coloring it in!!

She picked up her back crayon and started to color in the feet, part of the tail, and a little fur around its neck black! Purple came next, of course it was getting purple eyes like she was. Because this was her! Purple got added to the top of the tail, the bands around its feet and the tuft of hair it its ears! The rest of the body she colored in a light pink, one of her favorite colors, a red mouth..

And she was done!!

She carefully labeled it..



And then she took her picture up to the Professor.

SPOILER!!: Azura Shinx

"This is the Pokemon Shinx as me, I gave it purple eyes, just like me!" she said as she lay her picture on the Professors desk.

Ah, another student who was finished with their art work. "Thank you, Ms Kennedy.'' Kay took the paper. "Why! You have quite a talent!'' Now she was more sure than ever that she was going to put the art on display. Did Ansley know how talented these students were? "It's a rather excellent touch. It suits the sphinx as much as it does you. And Ms Kennedy? I do hope this activity has helped cheer you up a little.''

SPOILER!!: Kat! <3

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Whoooop whoop.

They were drawing.... cartoons of themselves. Kat know exactly how she was going to make herself as a cartoon character. This was going to be awesome. She couldn't wait to get started on it.

She started out with a rough draft drawing out the outline of it. Now that she could get over to the supplies since the others had gone. Hopefully everything she needed would still be there.

The second year skipped over and grabbed the supplies that she needed, minus one thing she didn't see that she needed "Professor Stewart? Do you have any glitter?" Maybe in her excitement over the assignment she over looked it.

Glitter was an important element to her cartoon creation.

Glitter? Why, yes! Kay had that!

"I think I have a few colours in my draw, Ms Delgado,'' Kay replied as she hurried off to her desk. After a brief moment of rummaging through papers and other stationery, she was able to retrieve a few small tubes filled with various colours of glitter which she placed on Katerina's desk. "I hope this will be sufficient for you.''

He heard Katherine's whispered words to him and he smirked a little more. "You're meeean." Uhuh. Judging those poor insects based on what their insect-relatives have done. LOL.

Cornelius glanced down at his hand-drawn picture. Well. The head... His curly head to be exact. He was going to go all out and give himself a cape. Because these specific character he was drawing himself as NEEDED representation of a cape. M'hm.

He drew and sketched and outlined. Cornelius kept that up when he realized his table was quiet and...Ohhhh. Little Miss Ravenclaw was silent. He blinked at her and then slowly waved his hand in front of her face. "Anyone in there?" Yooohoooo.

Furrowing her brows, Esme carefully traced out how she remembered Pikachu to look. It would have been easier if she had a picture to work with, she was confident nevertheless. So long as he was chubby, yellow, and had red cheeks everything would work out in the end.

Or not because she had messed up on the tail. It needed to be sharper. Zigzag.

Sighing, she crumpled up the piece of paper that she had been using and got herself a new one. Thankfully she had grabbed a few from the box so that she didn't need to get up. Effort. Esme wasn't ashamed to admit that she could be very lazy at times. Curiously she glanced over towards her sister and saw that she was already finished working on hers. Of course she had been correct in guessing Buttercup; she knew her sister better than anyone else and always had.

Smiling, Esme started working on attempt number two.

Olly was almost finished. The big parts were colored, but he didn't like them just being on a plain white piece of paper. He needed to color in some of the background too. So he added a brown road that the van was on, and some grass below that for his character to stand on. And the sky of course, with a yellow sun partly hidden behind the van because he didn't have enough room on the paper. There that looked pretty good. Except he remembered that the van had a name, only he couldn't remember what exactly the name was. So he made one up. 'Mystery Mobile.' That sounded pretty good to him. He flipped it over and wrote his name on the back.

When that was finished he cleaned up his supplies and put them back in the correct place. He grabbed his drawing and brought it up to the professor. "I made myself as one of the characters in Scooby Doo. See the green and silver clothes, that's how you know it's me. Could I have it back sometime? I want to send it to my dad."