小小拇指，31 Aug to 13 Sept 2018 Publication
Reflection by teacher Xie Shangyi from theAesthetics Department:
This project stems from my personal training and prior job experience as an illustrator with the newspaper and I find the process of translating stories in written form to communicate visually a valuable learning and practice for the students. Hence when the opportunity to collaborate with Thumbs Up Students Publication arose last year,NY AEP enthusiastically hopped on and planned the children stories illustration module for the Sec 1 AEP students. Many of the students were able to draw digitally in their various styles referencing many online tutorials and artists featured, however the ability to translate written into visual and restricting to just 4 frames comic narrative, targeting young children, was the main challenge. Coincidentally, the Language Arts Department had their story-telling assessment then and the students each had a narrative readily available to be translated into illustration. Tapping on their narratives created for their Language Arts assignments, the students began to design characters and sets for the stories before digitising their drawing and manipulating them on computers. Finally, as it was to be published in the Chinese student’s newspaper, the students were tasked to translate the narrative into simple chinese that little children would be able to relate to. The editors of the students newspapers were very impressed with the meaningful narratives and quality of the drawings produced by the students and decided to publish and feature their works. This children’s story illustration is an authentic task as the students took on the role of illustrators and underwent the process from conceptualisation to publishing.
Art work by Wang Zixuan, Sec 305 (AEP student) (art work done in 2017)
小小拇指，2018年8月31日至9月13日出版
谢尚怡的反思：
这个项目源自于我个人的培训和作为报纸插图画家的经验。我发现以绘本的形式来阐述故事，可以为学生提供有价值的学习体验。
去年有机会与小小拇指学生出版社合作。南中美术特选课程学生热情地为中一美术特选课程学生策划了儿童故事插图单元。学生以各种风格进行数码化绘画，她们参考了许多在线教程和学习各个艺术家的特色，但是要将书面文字转化为视觉形式的四格漫画，为儿童讲述故事，这其实是一项挑战。
刚巧当时语言艺术科正在进行学生故事创作的评估工作。学生已有现成的故事，可以随时将故事转化为绘本。她们塑造了故事，刻画了人物，然后将绘本数码化。由于这些故事将在中国学生报上发表，她们便把故事翻译成简单的中文，以方便儿童阅读。
南中学生创作的绘本的质量及富有意义的故事，给学生报的编辑留下了深刻的印象，他们决定出版和展示学生们的创作。
在这项真实的任务中，学生们扮演了插画家的角色，同时也体验了从概念化到出版的过程。
王子轩，305班（美术特选学生）的艺术作品（2017年完成的艺术作品）
Generation NY 