Drawing with a baby: first games and activities. When to start? How to teach a child to draw

If you decide to take up drawing with your baby, remember that in the first years of life a little person actively learns and discovers the world around him. And drawing for him is also a kind of game, an experiment, a way of realizing his childhood fantasies.

After all, you can play not only with cubes and dolls. You can invent and draw interesting stories on paper, make paper clothes, beds and furniture for the same paper dolls, draw road maps for toy travel, etc.

Show your child as many ways of drawing as possible, and soon you will notice manifestations of his own imagination.

What do drawing lessons give a child?

• Your baby will develop fine motor skills and hand coordination, and this is directly related to the development of intelligence. This means that your child will learn to reason logically, he will have a good memory, attention and coherent speech.
• Drawing prepares a child's hand for writing.
• While playing drawing, the little artist will learn to distinguish colors and shades, size and number of objects.
• Not being able to express his feelings in words, your baby will be able to express them through creativity. Knowing this, psychologists successfully help children get rid of their fears through drawing.

When to start drawing lessons?

Children develop an interest in drawing very early. They see how older children and adults draw and write, and try to imitate them. You can stimulate this interest and not wait for the child to ask you for pencils or paints, but specifically invite him to draw.

At first, let him just watch you draw. After all, his hands are still quite weak to hold a brush or pencil. From about 4 months, you can invite your child to paint with his fingers and palms. And when his hands get stronger, that is, closer to the second year of life, first offer him a brush, then pencils and felt-tip pens.

Don’t rush to teach your child to draw from the very first lessons. Let him just scribble funny doodles on paper. This is the first stage of drawing that your baby goes through. Experts call it soiling stage. Until about 2 years of age, your little artist will play with a pencil, simply scratching it on paper and not creating specific images.

How to teach a child to hold a pencil correctly?

A correct three-finger grip needs to be developed gradually. And you can start long before the baby starts drawing with a pencil.

First, the child learns to grasp objects with his thumb and forefinger. This skill is formed at approximately 9-10 months. Special games will help him develop.

• With loose objects- mosaics, small stones, buttons, beads. You can simply sort them out, or you can place them in containers with two fingers.
• With clothespins. Cut out various shapes from cardboard (for example, a Christmas tree, a hedgehog, the sun, etc.) and invite your child to attach clothespins to them. Clothespins can also be attached to the rim of a bucket, to each other and, of course, to clothing and rope.
• With tweezers. Teach your child to use tweezers to transfer small toys, pieces of foam rubber, and pasta from one container to another.

Choosing pencils and markers

So, short and triangular pencils will teach your baby to hold them correctly.

In addition, the first pencils for drawing should be very soft so that they can leave a mark on the paper without strong pressure. These can be wax and plastic pencils, water-based pencils. They are easily sharpened with ordinary sharpeners, leave soft and even strokes, and the designs are rich and bright. Such pencils do not stain your hands, are easily washed off clothes, and have no odor.

And of course, your baby can easily draw with felt-tip pens. Now on sale there are harmless markers with ink based on food coloring. They also sell felt-tip pens that can be easily washed off your hands and clothes.

Where to start drawing?

First, show your baby how to use the new item correctly. Draw something simple and understandable to the baby - lines, simple figures, a house, a cloud, the sun. After this, give the pencil to the child and be sure to praise him if he draws at least a couple of strokes or dots.

Take the baby's hand in your hand and slowly draw together with him, first straight and wavy lines, circles, ovals, then gradually complicate the image. This way you will help your child master basic movements faster and use his muscle memory.

The lesson will be interesting and educational if you read poetry or sing a song and at the same time draw what you are talking or singing about. The more songs, poems, fairy tales, and jokes you know, the easier it will be for you to come up with a plot for the drawing.

Don’t forget about Suteev’s fairy tales “The Mouse and the Pencil”, “The Rooster and the Paints”, “The Capricious Cat”. All kids, without exception, love these fascinating fairy tales in pictures. In addition, they show step by step how to draw, for example, a cat.

Learn to draw lines

In order for the child to be able to draw what he has in mind, he simply needs to learn how to draw a variety of lines with a pencil - straight, wavy, close them into a circle, oval, etc. And if it costs us, adults, nothing to draw any line with a pencil, then for a child it is real work. The child has not yet learned to control hand movements and it is still difficult for him to handle writing instruments.

So one of the first things you can teach a young artist is to draw lines. To do this, invite him to play the following games.

"Connectors". This game not only gives you the opportunity to practice drawing straight lines on paper, but also develops logical thinking. You need to prepare for it in advance. Draw or stick images on a piece of paper and ask your child to connect them with lines, following a certain logic. You can give your child the following tasks:

• Connect identical butterflies (cars, flowers, berries...) with lines.
• Connect cookies of the same shape with lines.
• Connect the fruits to the plate with lines.
• Connect objects of the same color.

You can gradually make the tasks more difficult.

"Complete the picture." Invite your child to fill in the missing details. Let them be just straight lines at first, for example:

• mushroom stems;
• umbrella handles;
• tree trunks;
• rays of the sun, etc.

Let the baby connect the flower heads with the vase, the balls with the man’s hand.

Draw a cloud and make it rain with your child. Draw the ground, and let the child draw the grass.

Stencils. Teach your child to draw using a stencil. Nowadays, stores offer a wide selection of stencils on different themes - animals, vegetables, fruits, sea creatures, etc. You can also use the edges of a sorter cube as stencils.

This activity trains muscle memory. By tracing stencils, the child learns to draw closed lines and shapes.

"Circle the object." Place cups, cubes, frames and inserts on a piece of paper and trace with a colored pencil. Then match the corresponding object with the figure drawn on the paper. This game teaches you how to trace flat shapes, as well as relate a flat image to its outline.

And of course, don’t forget to trace your baby’s hands - this activity brings great joy to little artists.

"Paths". Draw paths on paper - two parallel lines. Invite your child to first trace them with his finger and then run a pencil over them.

You need to trace with your finger so that the baby understands the task. It also develops muscle memory. If you remember, at school students first write letters and numbers in the air with their hands and only after that - in their notebooks.

To make it interesting for your little one, come up with a plot. For example, draw a ladybug at the beginning of the path, and a house at the end. Now, together with your child, help the ladybug get to the house. You can also help the truck get to the garage, the ship to sail to the island, and the butterfly to fly to the flower.

Learn to do shading

Hatching helps develop the skill of continuous writing. It is always done from left to right, just as we read and write.

"Cat and mouse" For this activity you will need a toy cat. Draw houses on paper and mice in them.

Ding-ding-bom, ding-ding-bom,
A cat walks with a bell.
The mice immediately heard
They quickly ran into the hole.
Close the windows quickly
You will save the mice from the cat.

Show your child how to hide mice from the cat by shading them.

For the first lessons, draw small houses so that the child’s hand does not get tired and he does not get tired of drawing. You can use other characters - bunnies and a wolf, chickens and a fox. Or you can not save anyone, but just play hide and seek.

As you can see, you can teach your child the basics of drawing, even if you don’t know how to do it yourself. There are many techniques with which you can create original works, even without any drawing ability.

If your child refuses to complete your tasks, do not insist. Let the baby draw whatever and however he wants. After all, it is much more important to support his imagination and independence, and not to teach drawing techniques.

Discussion

I place the child’s hand on my fist with a pencil and move it. Patience doesn't last long. Thanks, we'll try it too!

really interesting, we are also 2 years old, we will definitely try this method.

How I would like to love doing this with a child! But I don’t want and I don’t like. Nausea and boredom. Well done mommies - they enjoy drawing with their children and developing them!

Not a bad article, you can read it with pleasure in addition to Tyulenev’s system of real early development, Nikitin’s “parental pedagogy”. But there are several errors, both fundamental and technical. First of all, it is striking that the author avoids the axioms of early development established and discussed here. For example, in “real early development” it was found that it is easier for a child to call a square a square the first time than to associate it with a house. ...
The author does not write anything about the theory and practice of dynacesses, although they are already 20 years old! :(
It is clear that the author, more or less conscientiously, but without reference to the classics and founders of early development, goes from an older age to an early age of a child...
And yet it is clear that the “author of books and trainings” lacks serious familiarity with books on early development. What is worth at least this phrase: “There are many techniques with which you can create original works, even without any drawing ability” (!). The author, it seems, does not even suspect that it is “real early development” that is engaged precisely in forming the inclinations and developing the ability to draw using scientifically based methods of intellectual development (accepted abbreviation: WORLD). And so on, etc. P. However, I will not criticize too much a good article, in general, relative to many others - let people read it, start studying - well, and then we’ll talk! :)

My son will be 1.3 years old, but somehow I never thought before that it’s time to teach him to draw, although he already draws with a pencil or pen, especially on cardboard; he’s not particularly comfortable on thin paper. I'll try to get more serious about drawing with him one of these days.

Very interesting article. Before reading this article, I didn’t even think that a child at a young age should and can be taught to draw with the help of games. My son is 2 years old, but as a teaching method, I simply moved his hand along the sheet, showing him how to draw various shapes. Thank you! Now I will use various games from your article.

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Techniques for teaching a child to draw. Pictures that help you learn to draw objects, animals and people.

• Every mother wants to raise her child to be at least a talented and successful person. On the way to this dream, women strive to comprehensively develop their children, invest in them maximum knowledge and teach them as many skills and abilities as possible.
• One of these skills is the ability to draw. Many kids get quite upset due to their lack of artistic talent.
• In this article we will try to figure out how to teach a baby to draw certain things and animate objects.

How to gradually teach a child to draw at 3-4 years old?

Step-by-step learning to draw a child with a pencil or pen:

1. At the age of 3-4 years, the baby still cannot press hard enough on a pencil, so we select soft pencils for him. Such pencils are capable of leaving marks behind them even after very light pressure.
2. We demonstrate to the child how to hold a pencil in his hand correctly. If the child is unable to pick up a pencil on his own, we help him with this. Subsequently, we constantly ensure that the baby holds a pen or pencil in his hand correctly.
3. The first stage of training will be to instill the skill of drawing an even and clear line. At this age, kids are still quite uncertain when holding a pencil in their hand. Therefore, their lines turn out uneven and intermittent. We teach the baby to draw a line confidently and evenly
4. It is advisable to purchase a special notebook for your child to trace pictures. In such notebooks, all drawings are depicted using numerous dots. The baby just needs to connect all the dots with one line. The result is a beautiful drawing.
5. At first, we help the child trace the pictures, guiding his brush with our hand. Later, we let the baby independently connect all the dots on the piece of paper.
6. At the next stage, we teach the child to draw the simplest geometric shapes - circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval, trapezoid.
7. When the baby learns to draw simple figures, we teach him to create drawings from them. For example, using a square and a triangle we draw a house, using a circle and straight lines - the sun, using a rectangle and circles - a bus, etc.
8. You can purchase or print children's drawing books from the Internet. In such manuals, various animals and objects familiar to children, created from simple figures, are gradually depicted. Subsequently, the child himself will learn to break all objects into shapes and create whole pictures using this technique.

• If by the age of five the child has already completed the pencil training described above, you can begin the next stages of developing drawing skills
• Now you can expand your little one’s creativity with the help of colored pencils, markers and paints. It is necessary to explain to the child that after sketching a drawing with a pencil, he can color it
• On a large sheet of paper, the baby can now create entire compositions and interconnected plots
• An ordinary walk on the street can be an excellent help for the development of a child’s imagination. You simply need to ask the baby to capture in his memory pictures that are interesting to him for later displaying them on a sheet of paper. The baby will then very carefully and intently examine the objects around him in order to remember them. Parents can give their child some tips. To do this, you can ask him leading questions like: “What color is this or that object? What are its dimensions? What is the ratio of the sizes of several objects that the baby likes? What do objects feel like to the touch, according to the baby?”
• All this will help the child to imprint interesting moments in his memory as best as possible, and then express them on paper.

• Upon arriving home from a walk, it is advisable to immediately give the baby all the items necessary for drawing and provide him with a place convenient for creativity.
• If your child suddenly has any questions, you need to help him find answers to them.
• Parents can also ask their child questions about what he intends to portray. You can ask what sensations the child experiences, trying to draw what he saw earlier
• In such classes, you can give your child the right to express his emotions and show them through drawing. For example, you can ask your little one to draw his favorite animal in different moods. That is, the child’s task is to show how the dog laughs, how angry it is, how afraid it is of something. Such lessons will develop the child’s imagination and at the same time express the state of his psyche

How to teach how to draw a tree?

• Any tree always consists of a trunk, branches and greenery
• You need to start drawing a tree from the trunk. It is worth noting that the tree trunk expands from top to bottom. In other words, the base of the tree is thicker at the bottom and tapers towards the top.
• The same applies to tree branches - at the base they are thicker, and towards their end they become narrower
• The thickness of the trunk depends on the type of tree. If you want to draw a birch, then the trunk should be thin with bends; if you want to draw an oak, then the trunk should be thick and massive

• After the trunk is drawn, it is necessary to cover it with branches. As a rule, the branches of a tree do not start from the root, but from a quarter of its height. The lower branches are usually depicted wider than the upper ones
• The direction of the branches is always upward - they seem to stretch towards the sun
• On large branches you can draw smaller branches
• The crown can be drawn as a solid mass using paints, or it can be drawn with a pencil in the form of individual leaves
• When all the elements of the tree are drawn, all that remains is to paint it over. To depict a tree, you will need at least two colors: trunk and branches - brown or black, crown - green

How to draw animals?

As mentioned above, to make drawing animals easier, their body must be visually divided into simple geometric shapes. Having drawn each of the figures one by one, you need to connect them with smooth lines. This is how animals are made.

Machine drawing

It would seem that drawing a person is very difficult. However, if you adhere to a certain scheme, even a preschool child can cope with this task. So, step by step drawing of a person:

1. Draw an oval. The oval will later become a human head
2. Under the oval we draw a rectangle that will act as the upper part of the human body (to the waist)
3. We connect the oval and rectangle with two smooth lines. Thus we draw the neck
4. Draw a second rectangle adjacent to the rectangle. Its width should be equal to the width of the first rectangle, but in length it will be slightly more oblong
5. We divide the second rectangle in half with a line running exactly in the center from top to bottom. This line will help us create some semblance of legs
6. Along the first rectangle we draw one more thin rectangle. This is how we draw the hands
7. Smooth the upper part of the rectangles with a smooth line - these will be the shoulders
8. Now we draw the neck of the sweater, the triangle on the pants, shoes and hands. All extra lines need to be erased with an eraser.

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Pencil drawing lessons step by step are activities that will help you master drawing techniques, regardless of your abilities or age. Drawing is really easy!

Don't believe that you can draw beautifully? Of course, only a real artist can really paint a magnificent oil portrait, but even a small child will soon be able to replicate the character of his favorite cartoon on paper if he takes drawing lessons for children on our website.

Just think how happy your baby will be when you tell her that from today we are learning to draw with a pencil! Why pencil? You need to start with something simple. And the easiest way to start is with light pencil drawings. Gradually you will master more and more complex skills. And, as a result, you can move on to working with paints. Drawing for children will become a favorite pastime and will gradually introduce kids to the wonderful world of bright images and favorite characters.

You and your child will learn the basics of pencil drawing, which are taught in art school, much faster if you go through the pencil drawing lessons step by step on our website. We managed to create activities that even kids can handle! With us, learning is simple and fun, step by step you will understand that drawing is very interesting.

Learning to draw with a pencil

The first drawing lessons for children are designed with the help of adults. Help your child grasp the pencil correctly, support his hand while drawing the very first lines. The little artist should better feel the force with which he needs to press in order to get a line of the correct thickness. Then let him draw simple lines in different directions. Afterwards you can move on to simple shapes such as a circle, rectangle, etc.

Gradually, the child’s drawing skills will be strengthened, he will be able to come up with more complex plots himself, fantasize and embody his fantasies on paper. But you need to start with the baby with the simplest objects or characters that are well known to him. When purchasing everything you need, please note that for the first lessons the young artist will need a thick, soft stylus that leaves a bright mark with virtually no pressure.

Pencil drawing lessons step by step for children

Talent is given to every person by nature, but the development of any abilities must begin from early childhood. By helping children learn to formulate images into pictures, you are doing them a great service. Drawing with a pencil step by step is not only interesting, but also very useful for young children. The influence of the development of fine motor skills on mental abilities and the psycho-emotional sphere at a very early age has already been proven. Working with a felt-tip pen or pencil, the baby becomes calmer, more balanced, develops a wonderful aesthetic taste, and develops a sense of harmony in relation to the entire world around him. This is also true for adults: when we learn to draw with a pencil, our nervous system rests. Isn't this the best cure for endless stress?

Why is it so important for parents to also learn art lessons for children? Help your child! Your baby, most likely, will not be able to cope with the first tasks on his own; he is very small and, most likely, has not yet mastered many skills. It is difficult for him to hold a pencil in his pen; he has not yet learned to calculate the force of pressure on the paper, or to correctly navigate within the boundaries of a paper sheet. The started drawing may not fit on the paper, and the baby will begin to get nervous. It is important not to miss this moment, but to help the child skillfully organize classes, then drawing will become a favorite pastime.

Pencil drawing lessons are staged in such a way that the child sees only objects familiar to him. They systematize the little man’s existing experience and gradually expand his worldview, introducing him to new phenomena of nature and life. Perhaps now the baby will take a fresh look at the world around him, and you will help him with this.

Growing up, your baby learns to explore the world in new ways and learns a lot of interesting things. There are also improved opportunities for communicating your thoughts and observations. By learning how to teach a child to draw, you will help him with this.

Drawing techniques and methods

Children develop their first interest in fine arts quite early. At 2-3 years old, children begin to actively use improvised means to create pictures. During this period, it is important for parents to develop the child’s interest in drawing. This provides a number of advantages:

· the baby develops fine motor skills;

· learns to express one’s thoughts, observations, experiences;

· throws out accumulated grievances, negativity, fears;

· learns new colors, paints, textures;

· develops imagination and intelligence.

You can choose a specific teaching method at an art school, using the advice of teachers, or online, where the achievements of foreign and domestic experts are presented. It is important to take into account the capabilities, interests and desires of your son or daughter, and not fashion trends and trends.

How to teach a child to draw with pencil and paints?

Before starting classes, you need to prepare a place and supplies for work.

When choosing pencils, choose ones that are not very small so that your child can hold them comfortably in his hand. For kids, it is preferable to purchase thick triangular pencils (the thumb, index and middle fingers are naturally located on three sides); older children can already be offered thin hexagons.

As for color, it is better to take a set of 12 primary colors - this will be enough for both simple tasks and real masterpieces.

Many stores offer pencils with double-sided sharpening. It is better to refuse this option - it is difficult for small children to navigate colors, and for children it is not at all safe.

When buying pencils in opaque boxes, do not forget to buy a pencil case, otherwise they are easy to lose and break. You should not skimp on educational supplies; they must be of high quality and reliable.

If you have chosen paints for creativity, then also monitor their quality, shelf life and the presence of harmful substances in the composition. Preschoolers are most often recommended to use gouache, which has a dense texture and is inexpensive and safe to use. In addition, it can be easily washed off from any surfaces or the young artist’s hands.

Popular and fashionable among modern parents, finger paints are perfect for the youngest artists, as they develop motor skills and imagination.

When choosing finger paints, pay attention to their composition: apart from food coloring, water and salt, there should be no impurities.

Out of curiosity, a child may decide to taste the paints, so you must be sure that they are absolutely safe for the baby.

Don’t try to buy a large number of flowers - for the first time, a pack of 4 colors will be enough. And so that your child does not paint all the wallpaper and furniture, organize a space for creativity and buy whatman paper.

Before starting work, you should tell your child about the secrets of this type of art, offer to try each type of instrument and choose for yourself what you like.

How to teach a child to draw a circle?

Drawing circles, triangles, squares and other geometric shapes is an important skill for a young child. With the help of these figures in the future you can create interesting compositions, favorite characters and animals.

And the instructions for creating a drawing of a turtle from a magazine will show how you can combine geometric shapes and lines to create a funny animal.

At the beginning, it is better to teach how to draw a circle and its friends step by step, cell by cell, so that the child remembers their location and shape, and then you can move on to a more complex level - unlined white sheets.

How to teach a child to draw a person?

In most cases, the child, having received a piece of paper and a pen, tries to portray those whom he sees every day - mom, dad, brother, doll or princess from his favorite cartoon. Drawing a person seems difficult even for an adult, let alone a child.

If we approach the process schematically and step by step, we will see that there is nothing complicated about it.

We divide the sheet into three parts: the head (small oval), body (rectangle) and legs. Schematically, we have a little man. We add hands and ears to him, work on the details of the portrait and get a pretty good image. While working on the face of a drawn doll, we tell the child about the proportions and location of each detail, thus studying the structure of our body.

How to teach a child to draw a house?

The ability to depict a house is very important for a little person. Psychologists say that such a structure symbolizes protection, safety and family comfort in the understanding of the baby.

First, tell us what shapes the house consists of, what sizes each part is and where they are located. Then proceed to a step-by-step drawing, cell by cell, to demonstrate all the nuances of the drawing. For convenience, advise your daughter or son to use pencils or felt-tip pens, because it is difficult to draw all the small details, as well as the room and furniture in it, with paints.

How to teach a child to draw a tree?

Trees, flowers, mushrooms and landscapes are the children’s favorite theme. Therefore, in class it is worthwhile to dwell on these subjects in more detail.

Step-by-step instructions from the magazine will help you draw a beautiful tree. Starting with drawing simple details and gradually increasing the complexity of the composition, your child will be able to develop their skills and create a beautiful drawing.

First, step by step, disassemble the tree into its component parts: crown, branches, trunk. Think about what geometric figure each object resembles (rose, mushroom, chamomile or bushes) and transfer your observations to a piece of paper. The trunk of a tree, for example, is a long rectangle, the branches are lines in different directions, and there will be foliage in the shape of a cloud around them. As you can see, this type of art is quite interesting if you give free rein to your imagination and imagination.

How to teach your child to draw a car?

The passion for vehicles is interesting for both girls and boys, so it’s worth learning how to draw cars, airplanes and steamships.

First, as usual, we will understand the proportions: circles, triangles and squares. The picture should have two circles (these are wheels) and rectangles of different sizes (the smaller one is the cabin, the larger one is the trunk and hood of our vehicle) as the basis of the car. If we need a truck, then we draw the cabin in the form of a square.

How to teach a child to draw a Christmas tree?

A beautiful and fluffy Christmas tree is a favorite of children, so very often they want to transfer it to a sheet of paper. To learn how to draw a forest beauty, you need to remember a few simple rules:

· the trunk of the Christmas tree is a long brown rectangle;

· schematic representation of branches - triangles that decrease in size towards the top;

· toys, decorations and pine cones are added in such quantity and form as our imagination allows.

A beautiful snowflake, bunny or Santa Claus can complement the winter landscape.

How to teach a child to draw animals?

Everyone knows that children love animals. No one will be surprised if your child asks you to draw a bunny, fox, bear, dog, cat, fish, horse, bird, elephant or cow.

Don’t let such a request scare you, because transferring these animals onto a sheet of paper is not at all difficult, the main thing is to understand the basic principles of depicting animals. Each drawing is based on an understanding of the proportions of the body and the main figures that demonstrate them.

For example, you can draw a kitten using several ovals of different sizes located next to each other: the head is a medium-sized figure, next to which there is a larger oval - the body. Four small ovals are the paws, and a long and thin oval is the tail. The child can depict the ears, nose, mustache and eyes at his own discretion, allowing his imagination to run wild. This also applies to the color of the animal - do not set any frames or restrictions, allow the child to express himself on paper by drawing domestic and wild animals (tiger, frog, elephant, butterfly or dinosaurs).

Master class “My furry friend”, non-traditional drawing with children of the preparatory group of a preschool educational institution

Hiding his nose means cold.

There are artists whose animals and birds are the main characters in their drawings and paintings. They are called animalists. The word "animalist" comes from the Latin word "animal", which means "animal". But drawing animals is not so easy. Because animals don't know how to pose. The animalist has to diligently observe and study their habits and character. The artist begins his work by making sketches, sketches and sketches from nature of living animals, birds, fish, and long-term works are usually carried out from stuffed animals or from photographs.
Animal artists try not only to achieve external resemblance, but also reflect in their drawings the character inherent in the animal or bird being depicted, and try to convey the individuality of the animal.

One of these artists, People's Artist of Russia Viktor Chizhikov, is the author of the Olympic bear cub Mishka, the mascot of the XXII Summer Olympic Games, which took place in Moscow in 1980.

He designed books by Marshak and Barto, Chukovsky and Volkov, Mikhalkov and Nosov. For half a century, his illustrations appeared in the magazines “Funny Pictures” and “Murzilka”. More than one generation of readers grew up with his drawings, full of sunshine, humor and joy. One of the artist’s favorite themes is the image of cats.
Wonderful illustrations were drawn by Viktor Chizhikov for Andrei Usachev’s book “Planet of Cats”. The artist gave his animal characters traits characteristic of humans.

Practical work.

We apply a stencil of the cat figure to the middle of the album sheet.

Drawings by students of the creative association.