How to teach a child to draw. Basics of step-by-step drawing

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:

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.
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.
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
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.
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.
At the next stage, we teach the child to draw the simplest geometric shapes - circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval, trapezoid.
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.
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?

How to learn 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

How to teach a child to draw a person?

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:

Draw an oval. The oval will later become a human head
Under the oval we draw a rectangle that will act as the upper part of the human body (to the waist)
We connect the oval and rectangle with two smooth lines. Thus we draw the neck
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
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
Along the first rectangle we draw one more thin rectangle. This is how we draw the hands
Smooth the upper part of the rectangles with a smooth line - these will be the shoulders
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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I am glad to welcome you again to my blog. Why are different methods for developing creative abilities in children so popular now? What do they give and how to teach a child to draw at 3 years old? How to teach a child to draw without pushing him? Let's talk about it? Then let's go!

Until the age of 3, my little one used a brush to paint sheets of paper the way he wanted. I chose mostly dark colors. By the way, don’t be alarmed if your baby prefers dark tones. Black color is the strongest of all, so it attracts the attention of children. Finger paints are a great place to start. When purchasing, be sure to look at the ingredients, this is important. I was guided by price and composition, fortunately I was familiar with the list of natural dyes. For initial training, you can use an unnecessary piece of wallpaper or whatman paper. Don't forget to cover the floor with oilcloth if you will be painting on the floor. I pinned a piece of whatman paper to the wall, and we created in free form. The main thing is to arouse the baby’s interest. Some ideas from the Internet will help you come up with a plot for the drawing. Click on the picture for a detailed view

We draw the simplest designs with our fingers: a circle, a square, then a flower or a tree as many times as the child asks. Believe me, very little time will pass and he will repeat everything exactly after you, it will look very decent and beautiful. Moreover, drawing shapes and figures with your fingers is a kind of corrective activity; this is the best way to introduce your baby to shapes.

Let's move on

When the baby has mastered the basics with the help of paints, hand him a simple pencil with a soft lead. Your task is to teach how to hold a pencil correctly.

show him how to draw regular lines (long and short);
repeat what you have learned, try to draw simple geometric shapes together.

When my child mastered these skills on his own, we moved on to various aids, which, by the way, are very helpful to modern mothers. You can purchase ready-made magazines or find and print ready-made drawings from the Internet. My little one loved to connect straight and smooth lines with dots, and then see what happened in the end.

After a simple pencil comes the next stage - multi-colored felt-tip pens. I'll make a correction on my own behalf. Take those that are easy to wash off with water (this information is written on the packaging). Children often like to draw where they shouldn't. You can save furniture and washable wallpaper if you notice the cave art in time. In the first 15-20 minutes, it is very easy to remove and wash off the bright felt-tip pen with a regular damp cloth (from the face, by the way, too).
We really like drawing with oil pastels - it doesn’t stain your hands, it’s easy for even the smallest to draw, and the drawings are no less bright than with a felt-tip pen. But there are different types of pastels, there are hard wax crayons and it will be difficult for kids to apply effort, and there are oil pencils, they are soft and do not need to be pressed.

Complex drawings

Complex drawings: a dog, a butterfly, were quite difficult for us. My child took failures hard if something didn’t work out for him. Therefore, again, I turned to professionals for help. Ready-made notebooks, albums with blanks. I really liked the methodology of the Eureka Research Institute

A notebook-simulator in which educational drawings of animals are presented step by step, step by step. In just a couple of weeks, my little one successfully mastered complex drawings. I began to simply depict about 50 animals. Don't believe me? Try it yourself. You will definitely like it. At first we sat together over a notebook, but then the baby began to show independent interest, and I had a free minute. Notepad on ozon

You can easily teach your baby to depict:

Sun;
person;
transport (using geometric shapes);
butterfly (one oval in the center and 2 circles on each side);
some animals that are easy to perform.

There is nothing better than colorful gouache. Draw together, learn together with your child.

Unusual techniques and drawings

Drawing and learning numbers

While studying the issue thoroughly, I came across interesting offers on the Internet. Drawing by numbers turned out to be quite feasible for 3-year-old children. We not only mastered the basics of mathematics, got acquainted with numbers, and taught them. But they (the numbers) were amusingly overgrown with whole stories.

from one you can make a ship;
a deuce easily turns into a swan or a duck (ours turned out to be a duck);
3 or 8 can be transformed into a bunny;
A friendly snail emerged from the 9.

Everything is limited only by your imagination. Using numbers you can draw almost all animals on Earth. But to do this, you need to think in advance what each number can turn into.

Drawing by points

The pictures are clickable, we printed them and drew them:

A simple and at the same time useful way for your child to learn how to draw. The child draws lines connecting the dots. This is how he learns to control his hand in order to draw a straight line and prepare for writing in the future. Secondly, when the child draws along the lines, he remembers how to depict objects, what details need to be drawn in order to depict the object. That is, which lines are enough to get a duck, for example.

Painting by numbers

We connect the numbers in order. You can’t do without mom’s help if the baby doesn’t yet know the numbers. But this method should not be discarded. Suddenly the child will like it, and a big bonus from such drawing is the easy learning of numbers.

What should a 3 year old child be able to draw?

You probably know that upon admission to kindergarten, children can be tested by a psychologist and/or speech therapist. A drawing test, as a rule, is always included in the general list of questions. By this age, a child should be able to draw certain figures; this is a kind of indicator of the baby’s development. What should he be able to do, and if he can’t, 6 be sure to teach:

Draw round objects.
Draw clear straight lines: short and long (we learned by drawing grass, rain, a long road).
Cross straight lines.
Draw the simplest objects (a balloon, a cloud and rain from it, grass, a flower, a diagram of a man).

I repeat once again, he doesn’t know how, he doesn’t want to - learn in the game, the main thing is not to cause negative emotions, not to force, otherwise you can discourage interest for life

Another simple option is drawing with kitchen sponges; even 2-year-old kids will like this, and the drawing can turn out very impressive.

A little about the unwilling

If your baby doesn’t want to draw, but everything is fine with his development, leave the poor child alone for a while with developmental methods and his own complexes. True, not for long, a month is enough, try to arouse the baby’s interest in the game. Well, he doesn’t want to draw, it means it’s not interesting, it’s boring. This means you need to change your approach if you dreamed of raising an artist. In any case, there should be no negativity from mom or dad in the process, otherwise the desire may disappear for life.

Irina Khursulova

. Portrait painting is one of the most complex and significant genres of fine art. This is not just a reproduction of the features of a particular person, but an understanding of his inner world, the essence of his character, the uniqueness of his appearance; the artist’s expression of his attitude towards the depicted. No other genre of painting reveals man so how it does portrait.

How teach your child to draw a portrait correctly? Each teacher has his own methodology drawing a portrait. I teach children first draw a person's face step by step, with a simple pencil.

Using simple rules, draw human Almost everyone can do a face, even child. Perhaps not the first time, but if you really want to, you will definitely be able to teach your child to draw a real portrait of a person.

Before you start working on portrait, it is recommended to prepare everything necessary:

Paper;

A simple pencil.

1. First, draw an oval face with thin lines.

2. For relief drawing exactly in the center draw a vertical line dividing portrait into two parts and two horizontal lines dividing it into 3 parts: forehead, eyebrows; eyes, nose; mouth, chin.

3. On the top line we draw arc-eyebrows.

4. Below are the eyes. The shape of the eyes consists of arched lines. The iris and pupil are drawn in the middle. Do not forget draw eyelashes, on the upper eyelid they are longer than on the lower.

5. Drawing nose - nose in the middle, beginning at the eyebrows. It is drawn with a smooth arc-shaped line. The crown of the nose is rounded and from the side are drawn wings of the nose and nostrils.

4. The mouth is below the nose. We draw the line of the mouth, on top of the upper lip - two arched lines, on the bottom of the lower lip - a large arched line.

We erase the extra lines with an eraser.

5. Draw ears on the sides at the level of the nose, finishing drawing the shoulders.

6. Then hair: short or long, straight or curly, wavy, with bangs or not, color.

Talent is given to everyone a person by nature, but you need to start developing any abilities from early childhood. By helping children learn to formulate images into images, you, teachers, are doing them a great service. Drawing Using a pencil step by step is not only interesting, but also very useful for young children. Good luck to you!

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Along with the physical and intellectual development of the baby, it is necessary to pay enough attention to children's creativity. One of the ways to express it is through drawing. Many children love to create their own pictures. Usually they try to portray their favorite fairy-tale characters and people. Kids may be interested in how best to depict a particular object. Therefore, parents should be ready to help in preparing the drawing if the baby asks for it. For example, it is interesting to figure out how to teach a 5-year-old child to draw a person step by step. You can choose several options that even a preschooler can do.

How to teach a child to draw a person with a pencil?

You should start with simple methods. To do this you will need a simple pencil and paper.

Option 1

Every mother will be able to figure out for herself how to teach her child to draw step by step. This will allow you to spend your family leisure time interestingly and usefully.

Option 2

This simple option will also appeal to fidgets.

It is necessary to sketch out guide lines along which it will be convenient to later draw the body, arms, and legs. An oval (head) should be drawn in the upper part. The baby can do this on his own, under the guidance of his mother. You also need to mark the lines on the face where the eyes, nose, and mouth will be located.
Next, along the guides, you should draw the human body (legs, torso, arms). You can add a hairstyle, for example, funny ponytails. The kid can show his imagination and add a bag or other item to his hands. It is also necessary to detail the face, depicting the eyes, nose, and mouth.
Let the baby try to carefully remove all the extra lines on his own.

After studying the step-by-step instructions on how to teach a child to draw a person, you can easily explain this to even the smallest artist.

It is better to start drawing from childhood - this is one of the most fertile periods for mastering the basics of fine art.

Step-by-step drawing for children is a way that will help you develop your child’s creative abilities, regardless of his natural abilities.

You will spend many exciting hours learning the basics of drawing step by step and then be able to turn all your creative fantasies into reality.

Step-by-step drawing is a drawing method that allows you to create a drawing sequentially, in stages, from simple to complex.

Sometimes the whole thing stands still simply because a person does not know where to start. Often a child asks mom or dad “Draw a turtle,” and the parent would happily fulfill the child’s wish, but doesn’t know how.

And if he had a diagram of a step-by-step drawing of the same turtle in front of him, he could easily cope with this task.

For children, step-by-step drawing is a good help: firstly, they learn to draw without mistakes, following a certain order of actions, and secondly, in the process of repeated training, they develop an algorithm that will subsequently allow them to accurately depict many things without a diagram.

Finally, it’s just very interesting and exciting to watch how a whole image emerges from small figures and strokes, and failures rarely happen.

How to teach a child to draw step by step?

Of course, first it would be nice for the parents themselves to master this simple method. And if a child watches how his mother or father tries to do something creative, the desire to follow the elders will definitely arise.

At first, during step-by-step drawing lessons with a child, convenient and understandable diagrams are needed.

The essence of the method is that drawing something takes place in several stages.

That is, when drawing a cat, we will not start with the tail or face, but will follow a certain pattern that will allow us to avoid mistakes and inaccuracies in proportions.

The easiest way to start mastering step-by-step drawing is with pencil sketches. Paints and pastels will come in handy later.

Lessons for drawing a house step by step

To organize the process you will need:

a sketchbook of good quality (fairly thick, non-creasing paper);
pencils of different softness;
eraser;
diagrams in which everything is clearly visible.

If pencil drawing has already been mastered, or you want to immediately move on to pastels or paints, all this should also be available.

Provide the aspiring artist with an excellent workspace: a comfortable table and chair, good lighting, and the absence of all distractions. The child should be comfortable.

If you have a board or easel nearby, great, you can attach the diagrams there. You can also use a book stand or wall.

Before you start drawing, be sure to tell your child about the following rules:

there is no need to rush, everything works out only for those who try;
you need to act strictly according to the scheme, especially if you are just starting to learn to draw;
remember what you are doing, and next time you may not need the diagram;
start with the simplest ones, gradually moving on to more complex drawings.

Next, we show the child interesting diagrams. Offer several schemes to choose from, let the young artist choose what he likes. Remember that it is best to start with simpler diagrams: first we master the step-by-step drawing of animals and patterns, and later we move on to drawing a person.

Examples of step-by-step drawing

How to draw a hare

Let's start with a stylized, cartoonish bunny, which can be easily created by a preschooler.

We draw a large horizontal oval, and under it a small vertical one, but without a top.
Draw the paws to the small oval.
A small oval and two circles in a large oval - draw the muzzle.
We draw the nose and pupils - exactly according to the diagram.
We draw identical ears.
We draw small details - mouth, eyebrows, mustache, fingers. The bunny should have a flower in its paw.
And now all that remains is to draw a skateboard under the bunny’s paws - our bunny is very sporty and mischievous.

Cat drawing

Now let's draw a cute cat.

First we draw a circle - this will be the head.
Two triangles on top - they turned out to be ears.
Inside each triangle there is another small one.
Two dots and a triangle nose - a muzzle begins to emerge.
From under the nose there are two arms going in different directions – the cat’s mouth. Let's not forget about the luxurious mustache.
Draw the body - start with an arc.
We draw a collar for our cat.
On the other side we draw the foot.
It remains to draw one more paw.
Now you can take pencils or paints and make our cat colorful. Ready!

Drawing a dog

Now let's draw a charming puppy.

We start with an oval and a semi-oval, they should not be connected!
Now we draw the eyes and tail.
Ears, nose, spot around the eye - we continue to draw the muzzle.
We draw a tongue and connect the head with the body and the ears with the head using thin rectangles.
Draw the paws.
All that remains is to decorate the puppy. That's all!

Drawing a rose

Draw a simple oval on a thin stem.
Draw leaves on the sides of the stem.
Inside the oval we draw two main petals.
Inside the petals is the base of the bud, like a rolled up roll.
Draw the side, small petals.
Add colors and the charming rose is ready!

Drawing cornflower

Draw a circle on a thin stem.
Draw the core and small stems on the large stem.
We draw buds on the stems. Separate the petals.
We finish drawing the buds, highlighting the teeth of the petals.
Erase the line of the circle with an eraser.
We paint the cornflower in color.

Drawing a man

This simple diagram will help your child master proportions in drawing a person.

We draw the head (oval), neck and triangle - the future base of the body.
At the bottom of the large triangle is a small triangle, legs (knees are drawn).
We draw the hands based on the marks indicating length.

Tank drawing

Any boy will want to learn how to draw a tank, and it’s not difficult at all.

We draw the base, observing the proportions as much as possible.
We draw the caterpillar wheels and the barrel.
Let's focus on the small elements.
Using pencils we draw a tank in color.

How to draw a pattern

Perhaps, after mastering the drawing of these elements, the child will be interested in painting on wood - a very interesting, traditional creativity.

Drawing the “Grass Ornament” pattern

A few curls will be the basis of the ornament. They should be smooth and graceful.
Draw red petals in the two large corners.
All that remains is to draw the smaller black petals.

Pattern "Leaves"

Many examples of Khokhloma painting contain these elements.

A thin stalk is a small, curved line.
We draw an elongated oval on the stem in green.
To “pair” it with two more leaves, in which we draw the veins in yellow.

So, step-by-step drawing is a method based on order and schematics. In order to consolidate a certain algorithm in the creative mind of a child, it makes sense to resort to this method. You should start with simple stylized drawings, images of cartoon characters, etc. It is simple and interesting, and the result will be successful.

When a child masters the basics of step-by-step drawing, he may want to continue his creative activities in a fine arts studio or art school. Or maybe he will continue to improve his ability to draw using patterns that will become more complex.