Summary
A short tutorial showing how to photograph or upload a hand-drawn picture and turn it into a usable Scratch sprite -- a nice bridge between paper art class and digital coding projects.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
This video turns a hand-drawn picture into a sprite you can code.
- What steps does the video show for getting a paper drawing into Scratch?
- Why might an artist want to bring in their own drawing instead of using the library?
- What would you draw on paper to bring into a project?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: upload, sprite, costume.
Try it: Sketch a simple character on paper that you could imagine bringing into Scratch as a sprite.