Video: Drawing Ideas for Kids

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Kids can benefit from drawing exercises such as copying shapes, experimenting with textures and coloring in designs. Introduce drawing to children of any age with instructions from an award-winning artist in this free video on drawing with colored pencils.

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Hello I am Jacklyn Laflamme I am a professional artist with JacklynLaflamme.com. In this clip I am going to give you some tips on drawing ideas for kids. You will need a black magic marker, you will need some drawing paper, you will need a pencil sharpener, you will need colored pencils. A great project for kids is repetition of shape. This will help develop their skills and help them drawing. So suppose we choose a triangle. Just have them draw a series of triangles just like this, over and over again and try to stress to them that it is important to get them all to look the same. This is a great, great tip for kids wanting to learn how to draw. Another tip that's really a great exercise for kids is to experiment with different patterns. So if you have a sheet of paper you can divide the paper just like this into different squares. Just like so, they don't have to be all equal or even. And once you have your squares encourage them to try and work with different lines, such as rain drops, just like so. And fill in each one in a different shape and a different pattern. Squiggly lines are good to practice. These are all really, really great things for kids to encourage them to learn how to draw and use their imagination. Another idea is just to bring diagonal lines across and get them to box it in. And then they can go back and color in all these different shapes. And this is a really, really fun project for kids. The last tip I think which will really help kids to develop their imagination is to learn how to draw with using points. And an example of this would be, lets suppose they had a circle, get them to try to visualize the circle and draw it using pointillism. Just little dots going around in a circle. This is really also a great exercise. And once they get all the circle drawn then you can have them fill it in with little dots. Just like this. And here are 3 great drawing tips for children. This is Jacklyn Laflamme, thank you for watching.

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