Monstrous toys

For everyone, a toy is first and foremost an object designed for children, with the aim of entertaining them and enabling them to develop their motor skills, their intellect and even their social skills.

For their part, the students at Lyon’s Prépa Entertainment had to engage in a special exercise by transforming and distorting all or part of well-known toys into monstrous, bizarre and astonishing toys, like Sid, who in Toy Story, for example, decapitates a doll to put a dinosaur’s head on it. The toy thus becomes a monstrosity in its own right.

The exercise took place over a week, at the end of which the students were assessed on presentation, finesse of execution, richness of colour, volume and lighting.

SUBJECT OF THE EXERCISE

Toys are your raw material! Use parts of well-known toys to invent your own monstrous toy.

EXERCISE INSTRUCTIONS

• draw a black and white picture on a grey background,
• highlight an interesting detail which will be enlarged and in colour,
• a3 format (landscape or portrait).

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

This exercise gives students an insight into the creative process and documentary study. Even though the toy was invented and deformed, the students had to demonstrate precision and anatomical accuracy. Inventing doesn’t mean doing it wrong. The different elements making up the set had to be distinct, which implied a clean and fine finish to the work.

TECHNIQUES USED

Vinyl acrylics and pencils.