How to Draw the Proud Family

Preserve your proud family with a drawing worth showing off to family friends. Doing this is simple. If you're not an artist, it's easy to change your mindset to turn yourself into one. Follow these steps to preserve your proud family--by hand.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

1. Go to the book store or library and get a book about drawing faces, humans, animals and other subjects. Pick an object that you want to practice drawing. Go through the book, read the tricks and apply them to this subject.
2. Concentrate on each feature of your happy family member's bodies. Try to find the basic geometric shapes in each of their features. You'll want to learn how to sketch orbs and cubes--these techniques to draw bodies and heads of your family.
3. Think about how you want your proud family situated in your picture. Draw basic ovals for faces. Draw rectangles for arms and legs. Use smaller connecting rectangles for fingers. Depending on each happy family member's body structure, draw a circle and rectangle for heavy-set people and trapezoid like figures for people in shape.
4. Draw details into your proud family portrait. Start with large shapes, less details and work your way to small shapes, great detail. Use the shapes to guide you as you work in the greater detail. Keep adding details until your portrait comes to life.
5. Make sure that everyone has a smile. Otherwise, this wouldn't look like a proud family. Draw a happy back ground to match your happy family. Use the same principles, work from large and less details down to small and more details.

Tips & Warnings

• Find a family portrait. Since everybody is smiling or should be smiling, this is a perfect example of a proud family. Find a transparency with grids drawn on them. Or go to the art shop and purchase a drawing aid with grids on them. Place this grid over the portrait. Mark your drawing pad like this grid. Draw your proud family block by block.