https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/Recent content in Drawing for Young Artists on Teddy Rook Bookhttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpghttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpgHugoenhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/straight-curved/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/straight-curved/A straight line goes one way without bending. A curved line bends, like a smile or a rainbow. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/line-directions/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/line-directions/A vertical line stands up tall, a horizontal line lies down flat, and a diagonal line leans. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/zigzag-wavy/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/zigzag-wavy/A zigzag line has sharp points, a wavy line has smooth bumps, and a spiral winds around and around. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/thick-thin/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/thick-thin/Press gently for a thin, light line. Press harder, or use a fatter tool, for a thick, dark line. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/lines-all-around/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/lines-all-around/Lines are everywhere: stripes on a zebra, rungs on a ladder, waves on the water. Artists notice them and draw them. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/basic-shapes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/basic-shapes/A circle is round with no corners. A square has four equal sides and four corners. A triangle has three sides and three corners. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/more-shapes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/more-shapes/A rectangle is a stretched square, an oval is a stretched circle, and hearts, stars and diamonds are shapes too. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/shapes-in-things/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/shapes-in-things/Look at a thing and find its shapes: a wheel is a circle, a door is a rectangle, a roof is a triangle. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/free-shapes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/free-shapes/Shapes with straight sides and even curves are geometric. Free, bumpy shapes like leaves, clouds and puddles are organic. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-house/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-house/A square or rectangle for the walls, a triangle for the roof, and small rectangles for the door and windows. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-cat/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-cat/A circle for the head, two triangles for the ears, an oval for the body, and a curved line for the tail. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-fish-bird/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-fish-bird/An oval and a triangle make a fish. An oval body, a circle head, a triangle beak and a curved wing make a bird. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-car/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-car/Rectangles for the body and windows and circles for the wheels. The wheels touch the road. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-tree-flower/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-tree-flower/A tall rectangle trunk and a cloud shape for leaves; a circle center with petals around it for a flower. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/overlap/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/overlap/When one thing is in front of another, draw the front one whole. The one behind is partly hidden. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/rainbow/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/rainbow/A rainbow always shows its colors in the same order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/primary-colors/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/primary-colors/In paint, red, yellow and blue are the primary colors. Many other colors can be mixed from them. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/mixing-colors/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/mixing-colors/Mix two primary colors to make a secondary color: red and yellow make orange, yellow and blue make green, red and blue make purple. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/warm-cool/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/warm-cool/Red, orange and yellow look warm, like fire and the sun. Blue, green and purple look cool, like water and leaves. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/lighter-darker/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/lighter-darker/Add white to make a color lighter. Add a tiny bit of black to make it darker. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/color-wheel-kids/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/color-wheel-kids/A color wheel puts the colors in a circle. Colors across from each other, like red and green, are opposites, and they make each other look bright. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/repeating-patterns/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/repeating-patterns/A pattern repeats the same part again and again: red, blue, red, blue. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/what-comes-next/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/what-comes-next/Find the part that repeats, then use it to tell what comes next. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/nature-patterns/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/nature-patterns/Stripes, spots, scales and spirals are patterns on animals and plants. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/symmetry/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/symmetry/A thing is symmetrical when one half is a mirror picture of the other half, like a butterfly. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/face-parts/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/face-parts/The eyes go about halfway down the head. The nose sits below the eyes, and the mouth below the nose. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/happy-sad/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/happy-sad/A mouth that curves up looks happy. A mouth that curves down looks sad. A round open mouth looks surprised. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/eyebrows/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/eyebrows/Eyebrows raised high look surprised. Eyebrows that slope down toward the nose look cross. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/people-shapes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/people-shapes/Build a person from shapes: an oval head, a body, and long shapes for arms and legs. Then add clothes. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/hair-clothes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/hair-clothes/Make each person different with hair, hats, glasses and clothes. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-big/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-big/Make the main thing big enough to fill the page, not tiny in a corner. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/sky-ground/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/sky-ground/Put the ground along the bottom and the sky above it. The sky comes all the way down to the land. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/near-far/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/near-far/Things far away look smaller and sit higher on the page. Near things look bigger and sit lower. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-what-you-see/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/draw-what-you-see/Look at the real thing more than at your paper. Notice its shapes before you draw them. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/count-details/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/count-details/Count the legs, petals or windows before you draw, so your drawing has the right number. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/texture-marks/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/texture-marks/Different marks show how things feel: short lines for fur, dots for sand, long smooth lines for water. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/shadows-kids/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/shadows-kids/A shadow falls on the side away from the light. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/art-tools/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/art-tools/Crayons, pencils, markers, paint and brushes, clay and scissors each make a different kind of art. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/kinds-of-pictures/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/kinds-of-pictures/A portrait shows a person. A landscape shows land and sky. A still life shows things on a table. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/flat-solid/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/young-artists/flat-solid/A painting or a drawing is flat. A sculpture is solid: you can walk around it. Drawing for Young Artists · Art & Drawing Ladder