Learning to draw a person with a pencil: step by step instructions. Teaching children to draw a person: simple diagrams and recommendations Drawing algorithm for children 5 6 years old

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Daria Nikolaevna Koldina
Drawing with children 5-6 years old. Lesson notes

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Visual activity introduces the child to the world of beauty, contributes to the formation of a harmonious personality, develops creativity. In drawing classes, children master various visual means, use their imagination, convey their individual vision of objects.

Children 5-6 years old, getting acquainted with different types of fine arts (painting, graphics, sculpture), vividly perceive images. Compared with an earlier age, their activity becomes more conscious. The idea begins to outstrip the image. Previously acquired visual skills are consolidated. Hand movements become more confident. In collective work, children begin to plan and coordinate their actions. At this age, it is necessary to continue to teach how to depict objects from nature and develop imagination. You should pay attention to the transfer of shapes and colors, essential details. Starting with the older group, children should be taught how to tint paper and mix paints. It is useful to give children the opportunity to draw with different materials (wax and pastel crayons, charcoal pencils, sanguine, felt-tip pens) and use previously unfamiliar drawing techniques.

In this book, we provide summaries of exciting drawing lessons. Classes are arranged according to the thematic principle: the same theme permeates all classes during the week (on the world around, on the development of speech, on modeling, on applications, on drawing). Thus, children study one topic in all classes per week.

Drawing classes for children aged 5-6 are held 2 times a week; The session lasts 20-25 minutes. The manual contains 72 abstracts of complex classes designed for the academic year (from September to May).

Before class, carefully read the summary and, if something does not suit you, make changes. Prepare the necessary material and equipment. Preliminary work before the lesson is important (reading a work of art, familiarizing yourself with the surrounding phenomena or looking at drawings and paintings). It is advisable to conduct a drawing lesson after the children have already sculpted and applied on the same topic.

Drawing lessons are built according to the following approximate plan.

1. Creating a game situation to attract attention and develop emotional responsiveness (surprise moments, riddles, poems, songs, nursery rhymes, a fairy-tale character in need of help, dramatization games, exercises to develop memory, attention and thinking; outdoor games).

2. The process of doing the work begins with an analysis of the depicted object, the teacher's advice and the children's suggestions for doing the work (in some cases, the teacher should show the basic techniques for creating an image on a separate sheet). The teacher can direct the actions of children in need of support and help. When finalizing the picture with additional elements, you need to draw the attention of children to expressive means (for example, to harmoniously matched colors).

3. Consideration of the completed work (only positive evaluation). The child should rejoice at the result and learn to evaluate his craft and the work of other children, notice new interesting solutions, see the resemblance to nature.

For drawing lessons you will need:

Paper is plain;

Watercolor paper;

Simple pencils;

Colour pencils;

felt-tip pens;

Gouache paints;

Watercolor paints;

Wax crayons;

Pastel crayons;

Sanguine and charcoal pencils;

Soft and hard brushes of different sizes;

Glasses (jars) for water;

Palettes;

Oilcloths-linings;

Rags;

Toothbrushes;

Wide bowls for breeding gouache in them.

Alleged child's skills and abilities by 6 years:

Knows and knows how to use watercolor, gouache, colored pencils, wax and pastel crayons, charcoal and sanguine;

Knows how to use colors and their shades to convey the color of the image;

Knows how to mix paints on a palette;

Familiar with the color spectrum;

Familiar with the concepts of "warm" and "cold tones";

Able to tint the background;

Able to sketch in pencil;

Able to draw wide and thin lines with a brush;

Familiar with traditional and non-traditional ways of drawing;

Able to convey the shape, proportions and color of objects.

Able to convey in the drawing simple movements of humans and animals;

Familiar with such genres as still life, portrait and landscape;

Able to draw from the head and from nature;

Able to depict nature;

Knows how to draw genre scenes (illustrations for fairy tales);

Correctly positions the image on the sheet.

In decorative painting:

Familiar with the Dymkovo, Filimonovo, Gzhel, Gorodets, Khokhloma, Polkhov-Maidan crafts;

Familiar with the Russian matryoshka (Sergiev Posad and Semenov);

Knows how to make patterns based on these paintings;

Selects matching colors when drawing up patterns;

Able to create your own pattern;

Familiar with geometric embroidery patterns.

Annual thematic planning of drawing classes

Lesson notes

The theme of the week is “I take one berry”

Lesson 1. Branch with berries

Software content. Continue to introduce children to the variety of berries. Learn to draw from a picture, correctly convey the shape of the leaves, the location and color of the berries. To consolidate the ability to fill the sheet compositionally.

Demo material. Subject pictures with painted branches or bushes with berries (red currant, black currant, gooseberry, raspberry, strawberry, wild strawberry, etc.).

Handout. Halves of landscape sheets, pencils and colored pencils.

Lesson progress

Look at the pictures with berries with the children, describe all the branches. Invite each child to think about the branch with which berries he wants to depict. There should be sample pictures with berries in front of the children. The guys need to independently make a sketch of a curved branch with berries with a simple pencil, and then decorate it with colored pencils.

Lesson 2. Khokhloma berries
(Drawing in gouache)

Software content. To instill in children a love for folk art. Learn to highlight a plant-herbal ornament: cilia, blades of grass, antennae, curls, leaves, berries. Develop the ability to draw a pattern on a rectangle. Learn to alternate colors. Develop artistic taste.

Demo material. Khokhloma products: bowls, salt shakers, ladles, mugs, vases, spoons; samples of elements of Khokhloma painting.

Handout. Stripes of yellow paper, thin brushes, red, black and green gouache, jars of water, rags.

Lesson progress

Tell the children that the village of Khokhloma is located near the city of Nizhny Novgorod. Previously, there were a lot of forests around the village, spoons, cups, bowls, ladles and salt shakers were cut out of wood. To make the dishes elegant, they painted them with black, red, green and yellow paints.

Consider Khokhloma products with the children and pay attention to the painting: the painting falls like a wavy twig. On the branch are curls, berries (mountain ash, raspberries, strawberries, cherries, currants, gooseberries), leaves and flowers corresponding to the berries.

Show the children the techniques for drawing a wavy line with the tip of the brush, drawing blades of grass and berries. Then offer to make a rhythmic drawing on a yellow strip of paper.

The theme of the week "Fruits of the garden"

Lesson 3. Still life with vegetables (part 1)

Software content. Introduce children to a new genre of painting - still life; give an idea of ​​what objects are depicted in still lifes (flowers, fruits, vegetables, berries, household items). Learn about still life reproductions. To teach children to sketch on a sheet with a simple pencil, conveying the shape, size and location of objects.

Demo material.

Handout. Album sheets, pencils, wax crayons.

Lesson progress

Consider a still life painting with the children. Note what is shown, how the objects are located, what color, size and shape they are. Come up with a name for the picture and match it with the true name, name the artist.

Together with the children, hang the fabric as a backdrop and try several options for fabrics of different colors, create a composition from dummies of vegetables, placing them on the same line.

Invite the children to make a sketch with a simple pencil. Vegetables should be drawn large and occupy the entire sheet, arranged in the same sequence as in nature.

Lesson 4. Still life with vegetables (part 2)
(Drawing with wax crayons)

Software content. Learn how to draw with wax crayons.

Demo material. Reproduction of a painting depicting a still life, models of 3-4 vegetables, cloth.

Handout. Still lifes of children (in pencil), wax crayons.

Lesson progress

Remember with the children what the genre of painting is called, which they mastered in the last lesson (still life). Offer to make still lifes with colored crayons. Children paint over vegetables with wax crayons, adjusting the pressure on the crayon and conveying the appropriate colors and shades. One vegetable can be painted over with several colors, smoothly turning into one another. The image of the fabric is evenly shaded with the desired color (you can use the side of the wax crayon).

Theme of the week "Fruits of the Garden"

Lesson 5. Fruits (part 1)
(Drawing in gouache)

Software content. Continue to acquaint children with the still life genre and still life reproductions. To teach children to draw a still life, consisting of a serving item and fruits, conveying the shape, size and arrangement of objects.

Demo material.

Handout. Album sheets, simple pencils.

Lesson progress

Look at the still life painting with the children and talk about it:

- What did the artist depict?

- What colors did you use?

What mood does this picture evoke in you? Why?

- Which of the items here is the most beautiful? Why do you think so?

Together with the children, place the fruits next to or on the plate, use the fabric as a backdrop, invite them to draw objects with a simple pencil, observing the size, shape, and position in space.

Lesson 6. Fruits (part 2)
(Drawing in gouache)

Software content. Continue to introduce children to the genre of still life. Learn to draw a still life with gouache.

Demo material. Still life reproduction, fabric, dummies of 2-3 fruits in a low plain vase or plate.

Handout. Still lifes of children (in pencil), brushes, gouache, palettes, jars of water, rags.

Lesson progress

Remember with the children the name of the genre in which they painted in the last lesson (still life). Offer to write gouache still lifes according to a pencil sketch. It is desirable that children mix paints to obtain the desired colors and their shades, then the fruits will look juicy and tasty. Tell the children to let the paint dry so that it does not spread from one fruit to another. For the fabric, use muted colors so that the background does not come out to the fore.

The theme of the week is "Protect the Forest"

Lesson 7. Leaves of trees
(Drawing with colored pencils)

Software content. Learn to draw silhouettes of leaves from life and carefully paint over them with gouache paints, smoothly moving from one color to another. Strengthen the ability to fit a drawing into a sheet. Continue learning to paint over the leaves with colored pencils, shading in one direction without gaps and increasing pressure in darker places. Develop aesthetic perception. Continue to teach to understand and analyze the content of the poem.

Handout. Dried leaves of different trees, landscape sheets, pencils and colored pencils.

Lesson progress

For this activity, ask the children to bring dried autumn leaves.

At the beginning of the lesson, read to the children I. Tokmakova's poem "Wind".

Windy, windy
The whole earth is ventilated
Wind leaves from twigs
Dispersed around the world:
Lime,
Birch,

yellow leaf
And pink
Red,
colorful,
Old sheet of newspaper.
Sunny, windy
Windy, windy!

Ask the children:

What does the wind do in the poem? (Tears leaves from trees and disperses them all over the earth.)

- So today you brought to class the leaves that the wind plucked from the trees. Let's look at them, and then draw.

Determine with the children what trees their leaves are from, what shape they are (round, elongated, carved, etc.), what color they are. Note the multi-colored leaves, on which there are several flowers at once.

Offer to draw a rounded leaf (linden, birch, aspen or alder). Show the children how to outline the shape of a leaf with a simple pencil: first a circle is drawn, divided by a line (rod) into two parts, and then the leaf is given the desired shape. An elongated leaf (willow, willow) is drawn from an oval. Then you can try to depict an oak leaf. To do this, you need to outline a rectangle, break it into stripes, draw a central line in it, and then round off each cell with waves, conveying the shape of an oak leaf.

It remains to paint over the finished leaves with colored pencils. Teach children not only to paint over leaves with one color, but also to use several colors in drawing, smoothly transitioning from one to another or overlapping one another. You can add leaves with thin veins.

Lesson 8. Fairy forest
(Drawing in gouache)

Software content. Introduce children to the genre of landscape. Learn to create an image of a magical forest in a drawing, using the unusual structure of trees, fabulous patterns. To fix the techniques of drawing with gouache. Learn to apply one color to another as it dries. Develop imagination and creativity.

Demo material. The book by Z. Ezhikova "The Mole and Paints" with illustrations.

Handout.

Lesson progress

First, introduce the children to Z. Ezhikova's fairy tale "The Mole and Paints" and illustrations for the book.

Consider images of a fairy forest. Imagine with the children how trees in a magical forest can be painted (leaves on trees can be blue, red, purple, dotted, circled; tree trunks can be intricately curved, decorated with crosses, rhombuses, multi-colored stripes, etc. )

Invite the children to come up with and draw their own fairy forest. Teach children to think through the sequence of their work so that the paint has time to dry and a different color can be applied to it. You need to start with the sky and grass, when the entire sheet is filled and the paint dries on it, you can draw fabulous trees. Tell the children that the landscape can be supplemented with fly agarics in a clearing or an owl on a tree branch.

Theme of the week "Trees and bushes"

Lesson 9. Pine
(Drawing in gouache)

Software content. Learn to draw a tree, conveying its structure (trunk, branches, needles), first with a simple pencil, and then draw up the work in color. Learn to mix paints to get different shades of the same color. Continue to learn to draw wide lines with the whole pile and thin lines with the tip of the brush. To consolidate the ability to use the sticking method.

Demo material. Reproduction of "Rye" or "Morning in a Pine Forest" painting by I. Shishkin.

Handout. Album sheets, simple pencils, brushes, gouache, palettes, jars of water, rags.

Lesson progress

Consider one of the paintings by I. Shishkin and ask:

What time of year did the artist depict in the picture? (Summer.)

- What is in the picture? What kind of pines? (Tall, mighty, strong, etc.)

Read to the children a poem by I. Tokmakova:

Pines want to grow to the sky,
They want to sweep the sky with branches,
So that during the year
The weather was clear.

Offer to portray a lonely pine tree stretching into the sky. But first you need to draw a background - the sky (it is better to use different colors: blue, blue, gray, purple).

Then a tall pine trunk is drawn in the entire sheet, branches stretch from it in different directions. The branches are short at the top, and become longer towards the middle of the trunk; there are no branches in the lower part of the trunk. On the branches, you need to draw needles with the help of sticking (the brush is pressed against the leaf with the side of the pile). In the same way, you can draw grass below, trying to use different shades of green.

Lesson 10. Apple tree
(Drawing in gouache)

Software content. To teach children to draw a fruit tree, conveying its characteristic features: a trunk with branches diverging upwards. To consolidate the ability to create a plot composition, to fit a drawing into a sheet. Cultivate compassion and kindness

Handout. Album sheets, simple pencils, brushes, gouache, palettes, jars of water, rags.

Lesson progress

Read to the children in advance the fairy tale of V. Suteev “A bag of apples”. Today in the lesson, remember this work, based on the illustrations in the book.

Offer to draw another apple tree for the hare, next to his house. You need to draw a trunk with branches diverging from it, draw leaves and round apples in spots on the tree. Next to the tree, you can draw a hare with a bag, grass, paint over the sky.

The theme of the week is "Birds in Autumn"

Lesson 11. Pigeon
(Stroke with colored pencils)

Software content. Learn to trace the contour of the palm with a colored pencil. Learn to give a familiar subject a new image with the help of additional details. Develop observation and imagination. Cultivate a love for birds. Continue to teach to understand and analyze the content of the poem.

Handout. Halves of landscape sheets, colored pencils.

Lesson progress

Read to the children the poem by I. Tokmakova "Doves":

Doves, doves
One two Three…
Doves have arrived
Sisari.
Sat down and chuckled
At the door.
Who will feed the crumbs
Cesarean?

Ask the children:

- Who is this poem about? (About pigeons.)

Why are the pigeons fluffed up? (They are cold and hungry.)

- Who are the "Sizari"?

Offer to draw one dove. Children need to put their palm with spread fingers on a sheet of paper and circle it around the contour with a blue or blue pencil. Then you need to finish the outlined silhouette: add a beak and an eye to the thumb, and a wing in the center of the palm. From the bottom of the palms - paws.

Nearby, you can draw slices of bread or seeds to feed the dove.

Lesson 12. Dymkovo duck
(Painting with gouache)

Software content. Continue to get acquainted with handicrafts, consolidate and deepen knowledge about the Dymkovo toy and its painting. Learn to highlight and create painting elements (circles, rings, cells, dots, rhombuses, straight and wavy lines), its color system (crimson, red, green, yellow, orange, blue colors) and the composition of patterns on a bulk product. Develop visual memory.

Demo material. Dymkovo clay toys (whistles: ducks, cockerels, deer, horses; ladies in kokoshniks and hats); samples of elements of Dymkovo painting.

Handout. Ducks molded from clay in a modeling class and covered with whitewash with PVA glue, thin brushes, gouache, palettes, jars of water, rags.

Lesson progress

Tell the children about the origin of the Dymkovo toy: on the banks of the Vyatka River you can see the settlement of Dymkovo. Here in ancient times they began to make this toy. In winter, when people did not have work in the fields, they sculpted whistles from white clay. From a small ball, a duck, a cockerel, a turkey, a horse or a deer were obtained. Then the toy was whitewashed with milk and chalk and painted.

Together with the children, note what geometric patterns and colors the Dymkovo masters used.

Offer to become Dymkovo masters today and paint a duck. Remind you that to draw thin lines, you need to draw with the end of the bristle of the brush. It is desirable that on each table there is a sample of a painted Dymkovo toy and samples of painting elements.

Theme of the week "Colorful autumn"

Lesson 13. Colorful rain
(Watercolor painting on wet paper)

Software content. Continue to introduce the technique of drawing on wet paper. Learn to display the state of the weather (rain) using non-traditional techniques. Develop a sense of color, convey the colors and shades of autumn. Strengthen the ability to draw with paints. Continue to teach to understand and analyze the content of the poem.

Handout. Sheets of watercolor paper, watercolor paints, wide and thin soft brushes, jars of water, rags.

Lesson progress

Read to the children Y. Akim's poem "Autumn":

Rain, rain
All day
Drumming on glass.
The whole earth
All earth
Wet from water...

Ask the children:

- What is this poem about? (About rainy autumn.)

Decide with the children what colors rainy autumn has. (Yellow, orange, red, green, brown, grey, blue.)

Suggest painting a rainy autumn using these colors. Let the children think about how to depict rain (draw on a wet sheet).

It is necessary to apply water to the landscape sheet with a wide brush. Then pick up watercolor paint on a thin brush and touch it to a sheet of paper in several places. The dot will start to expand. Free places need to be filled with spreading dots of other colors.

Master class "Drawing for the little ones."

Shatokhina Rita Vyacheslavovna, teacher of additional education, MBU DO "House of Children's Creativity in Kalininsk, Saratov Region."
This master class is intended for teachers of additional education, educators of preschool educational institutions. The master class will also be of interest to young artists from 4 years old and their parents.
Purpose: this master class is a small drawing course for the smallest, which shows how to draw with geometric shapes.
Target: creating conditions for obtaining drawing skills.
Tasks: teach your child how to draw familiar images using geometric shapes;
to instill skills to work accurately with paints and a brush;
develop creative imagination and fine motor skills of the hand.
Young children come to classes in my association, but they really want to draw. From the experience of working with children, I realized that it is easier for them to draw with geometric shapes. Children draw according to my show, in stages. When starting a lesson, I never tell the children what we are going to draw today. From experience I know that they are so interesting. In the process, they guess who they are drawing, and it gives them a lot of joy. And everyone's drawings are different.

Drawing master class for children "Snail"

Prepare: A4 landscape sheet, watercolor paints, brushes of different sizes, a jar of water and a napkin.

Before starting to draw, I tell the children that the paints are sleeping and they need to be awakened, gently stroking them with a brush, we will wake up the yellow paint first and start painting.
We draw a bun in the center of the sheet, gradually unwinding the brush, and then draw an arc with brown paint.

We turn the arc into a loop.

We draw horns and paint over.

We decorate the house of the snail.

We draw eyes, a mouth of a snail. Next, the children themselves come up with and decorate the background of the picture: where is the snail?

Children's work:

Drawing master class for children "Turtle".

We draw a “kolobok” in the center of the sheet with yellow paint, draw 4 loops with brown paint.

The fifth loop is drawn larger in size, we paint over all the loops.

We draw eyes-circles, from the beginning with white paint, then black.

Decorate the turtle shell. The child can come up with his own pattern.

Drawing master class for children "Fish"

We draw a “bun” with yellow paint, draw arcs: from above and below, it looks like an eye.

We draw a fish tail-triangle. Then decorate the fish with red paint. draw by applying a brush: mouth, fins.

We draw scales, decorate the tail.

We "print" with a brush: draw pebbles and water, draw lines with green algae paint.

We draw the eyes of the fish with black paint. Black paint likes to play pranks, so we are especially careful with it.

"Winter meadow".

We take a blue sheet, A4 format. We draw koloboks with white paint. We draw lines, draw snowdrifts.

With brown paint we draw a trunk and twigs of trees, hands, eyes, a mouth and a broom for a snowman.

We decorate the picture with snowflakes. We decorate the snowman: we draw a bucket on the head and a scarf. Children complete the drawing, decorate.

By the same principle, you can draw an autumn forest, only initially the koloboks will be yellow, orange and green, and the leaf fall, draw by applying a brush, print. Children's work:

Drawing master class for children "Hedgehog".

We draw a "bun" with brown paint.

Draw a triangle nose.

Child's work.
We draw a clearing for a hedgehog, children fantasize.

Child work:

Drawing master class for children "Frog".

We take a blue sheet, A4 format. We draw in the center of the "bun" with green paint.

We draw one more "kolobok", and on top two "bridges".

We draw paws for a frog, we draw the attention of children that the paws of a frog differ in their structure, which helps the frog to jump well and hold on even on the most slippery surface.

We draw a frog mouth, eyes. We decorate the picture, having previously talked with the children: where does the frog live?

Drawing master class for children "Cockerel".

We draw a large bun-torso, a smaller bun - the head. We connect them with smooth lines, we get a neck.

We draw a cock legs-triangles and a tail, lines-arcs.

With red paint we draw a cockerel scallop (bridges), beak and beard, apply a brush.

Many people think that drawing is an artistic "science" that is not subject to everyone. In fact, the craving for art awakens in a person in early childhood, but without a certain development of abilities, it weakens over the years.

So is it possible to teach a child to draw, especially if they were born who do not know how to do this? When to start the educational process and with what exactly? Finally, is it necessary to send the baby to an art school or a drawing circle in the future?

At what age do children start drawing?

Children begin to be interested in drawing quite early, taking an example from their parents, brothers and sisters, who write something on paper. However, in a general sense, the craving for drawing is manifested in babies aged from 1 to 1.5 years.

And if at first the child’s drawings are more like a doodle-doodle, then closer to 5 years (and up to 15 years), an actively developing fantasy helps kids create real masterpieces on paper.

The benefits of drawing for child development

It is almost impossible to evaluate all the positive aspects of drawing in childhood - its influence on kids is so huge that the development of the entire personality of the child falls under the "sight".

In a general sense, drawing:

• forms in the baby a sincere sense of beauty and a desire to create something beautiful;
• develops the mind and imagination of the baby and helps to master new "tools" for understanding the world: felt-tip pens, brushes, pencils;
• the child learns to convey surrounding objects with his paintings and at the same time is engaged in useful work.

Where to start?

The first drawing lessons can take place already when the baby learns to hold objects in his hands. At this point, mom can hand him pencils and help him draw a simple line on paper.

Let it be not quite even and even “move out” from the album to the table. It is much more important that the child understands that his “manipulations” can subsequently turn into something really beautiful!

Pencils or markers?

Giving pencils to kids without adult supervision is not worth it so that they do not accidentally get hurt by them. However, under vigilant supervision, children can draw with felt-tip pens and a brush - especially since they make the first samples of the "pen" with the help of coloring books.

Who will refuse to draw the hero of your favorite book, the finished image of which lies in front of you on paper? It's hard to make a mistake and do something wrong!

And what exactly?

Some people find that pencils or thin felt-tip pens are not very convenient to use. At least for kids of two years old: their lead often breaks, and the rod is pressed inward.

However, only by giving the child the opportunity to choose something of his own from the variety of options will you help him find his favorite "tool" for drawing.

Paints or crayons?

A two-year-old kid can draw with almost everything: with finger paints and bold felt-tip pens - on paper, with bright crayons - right on the asphalt or board. It is generally most convenient to draw with the latter, since they are soft, and the lines behind them leave clear.

It will be a little more difficult to master gouache and paints, because they imply not only the desire to sculpt something, but also a certain creative technique.

A miracle of technology!

Recently, shops have begun to sell completely amazing things for drawing: a set for creativity with glitter on velvet paper or amazing felt-tip pens that a kid can blow into. And it's truly wonderful!

Drawing lessons for kids from 2 to 4 years old

It is necessary to teach a child who is 2-3 years old to draw from mastering the simplest techniques. At the same time, it is very important to be attentive to the needs of the baby to create and not to make fun of his diligent scratching with a pencil on paper.

The condescending attitude of adults to children's drawings leads to the fact that the child may consider drawing an empty occupation and refuse it.

What will be required?

Take bright colors, paper (the larger the sheets, the better), good brushes, a soft sponge and a glass of water. It is best to dress in something that is not a pity to get dirty - even an apron bought for drawing will not save you from stains when a young artist is only 3-4 years old!

How much time to devote to classes?

You need to teach a kid to draw for 10-20 minutes 2-3 times a week so that he does not get tired, but the craving for fine arts is not lost in the end.

Techniques for developing drawing skills

the freedom of action

For this lesson, glossy white paper and watercolors are taken. Have your little one dip the brush into the paint can and drip directly onto the paper! The bizarre patterns with which it spreads will look like magical pictures!

Sponge, not Bob

For this lesson, gouache and a large sheet of paper are taken. Have the child dip their pen into the paint and wring it out a little. Let him leave a “signature” on the sheet with his hand, and with a sponge rolled into a roll, make the final artistic “touches” next to it.

In a similar way, you can draw on paper and with your fingers: dilute the gouache with water so that it turns into “sour cream”, and pour it onto a plate. Using a wide brush, apply paint to the baby's fingers and ask them to leave their autograph on the sheet.

Wet style

A thick and large sheet of paper should be wetted under water for a couple of seconds. Now put it on a tray and invite your child to paint watercolors on it. Given the condition of the surface, the paint will spread on it, mix and create amazing “wet” patterns.

Scarlet flower

To teach a child to draw something really memorable, you can do this: dip the child’s finger in green and, holding his hand, draw a stem along with him on paper. A handprint will act as a bud, and in the end you will get a wonderful flower!

This technique can be successfully used to depict other objects. Try to use it to depict a tree or a cheerful giraffe with a baby.

Drawing lessons with children over 4 years old

The age of four is a fertile time for mastering more complex drawing techniques. Already during this period, it is worth sending the baby to art school, but if for some reason this does not work out, you can teach him to draw by yourself.

Together is more fun

Get ready for the fact that you will have to do this together, since it is from your drawings that he will take the right example. Try to draw brightly, specifically and not be distracted by too small details.

Tell about everything

Accompany the drawing process with a fascinating story so that the child understands what you are doing.

Master the figures

The most important thing is to teach the kid to draw geometric shapes that will become the basis of the desired images, regardless of whether it is an animal or a person.

How to draw a tree?

At 4 years old, you need to start with a simple one: with an ordinary green Christmas tree, which is cold in winter.

Below we attach step-by-step instructions for creating an "artistic" tree and a picture - so that the child understands the principle of work.

1. We draw a line on the sheet leading from top to bottom. We draw slightly curved lines from it, which will be the branches of our Christmas tree.
2. Now we will try to “outline” these lines with needles: as shown in the figure. When all the branches become fluffy, paint over the Christmas tree in green.

Similarly, you can depict a birch and other types of trees.

Learn to draw animals

Draw a hedgehog

1. Draw the needles of a hedgehog on paper using a zigzag, and then add ears to it.

1. Connect them with an oval to make a head.

1. Draw the hedgehog's nose, eyes and mouth and reward the hedgehog with a belly.

1. Draw his legs and arms.

1. It remains to draw the needles as shown in the picture. The hedgehog is ready!

Draw a donkey

Drawing a donkey on paper is also much easier than you thought.

We perform the following steps step by step:

1. We draw a simple oval on paper, then divide it with a line into two parts, in the upper of which we draw the eye of a donkey, and in the lower - nostrils and mouth.
2. Now we attach the ears to the donkey, drawing two “cucumbers” on the sheet. Just below the head, draw another oval - this will be the torso of the donkey, which we will connect to the head with two "neck" lines.
3. Now you need to add legs to the animal, drawing them at the bottom of the body, and a real tail, placing it on the side.

Donkey is ready! It remains to color it as fantasy tells!

Draw a cat and a dog

In the same way, you can draw a cat and a dog. The step-by-step technique for depicting a cat is shown in the following figure:

The main thing: to make it clear to the baby that drawing animals is not difficult, if we take geometric shapes as a basis (in this case, these are circles and semicircles) and show a bit of imagination.

In the same way, you can draw a dog:

How to draw a person?

How to teach a child to draw a man? Not as easy as you would like, but not as difficult as it seems. Begin!

Scheme of the image of a man in full growth

1. Draw an oval and a rectangle on the sheet (as shown in the picture), and then attach them with a line to each other. We finish the little man's legs and arms with fingers.

2. Then add two lines to the arms to make them appear thicker. We will do the same with the legs. Now let's draw a person's ears (two semicircles on the sides) and make a hairstyle.

3. A person's face deserves special attention, but drawing his features - mouth, nose and eyebrows, will be easy if you first look at the drawing. We add a neck to the person and finish drawing a shirt with a collar.

5. We draw him trousers and boots, draw palms. There is nothing left: erase the auxiliary lines, outline the contours and decorate the person.

Draw a human figure in motion and a face

Similarly, you can depict a person in motion or draw a portrait of him. The step by step process is detailed in the following picture:

Drawing circle: when and why?

By the age of 6, a preschooler who is actively involved in drawing already knows how to create with paints and pencils. If his drawings differ significantly from the work of his peers (for the better), send the preschooler to a circle so that an experienced teacher continues to work with him.

To choose a good circle, it is enough to find out if there is a private school or a House of Creativity in your area. Very often, ordinary art teachers conduct such classes right in schools (without age restrictions).

Individual lessons

If you want your child to create professionally at the age of 6, send him to individual lessons. Their advantages are that:

• the teacher visits you at a convenient time;
• you choose the program in which the child will study (for example, drawing portraits);
• Lessons are paid according to the fact of the lesson.

Individual lessons also have disadvantages: they are not cheap, and finding a good teacher can be difficult.

Summing up

Any way to teach a child to draw is good - both at 1 year old and at 5 years old, because it develops imagination and allows you to spend a little more time with your baby.

At the same time, it is not so important whether you will strictly follow a certain methodology or develop an individual artistic program on your own. It is important that these activities are interesting for the child and are varied.

And even if a real artist does not grow out of your baby in the future, drawing lessons will still have a beneficial effect on his development and the correct perception of the world around him.

In the period of senior preschool age, many parents begin to actively prepare their child for the upcoming education. They are increasingly thinking that it would be useful to teach him to draw. Here and creativity, and perseverance, and the work of the hand. How to teach a child to draw 5 or 6 years old?

Useful activity

Of course, artistic skills need to be developed and encouraged in a child, the benefits of drawing for a future student are obvious:

• development of fine motor skills, preparation of the hand for writing;
• fantasy development,
• the skill of perceiving colors, arranging objects, creating a composition;
• psychological relief - in the drawing, the child can express what worries him, pleases or excites him;
• memory training, perseverance;
• aesthetic development;
• the skill of self-expression through the necessary materials;
• development of figurative thinking.

When we learn to draw, we learn, first of all, to see the world through the prism of our inner perception and express it on paper. This is a process necessary for full-fledged development, helping to find extraordinary solutions in difficult situations in the future.

But here the question arises: do the usual drawing lessons teach this? After all, on them the child receives an algorithm, a clear instruction, according to which he works on his sheet of paper. This is just a technical implementation of a clearly defined task, honing the skill of using pencils or brushes with paints. Action according to instructions. Is there something in this from true creativity, self-expression, the embodiment of one's own plan? But the child gets used to this approach. Then he "acts according to the instructions" in other situations, gradually forgetting about his fantasy, his inner world as something unclaimed.

Hence the question: is such a teaching necessary at all? It is impossible to teach a child to draw. We either give him a clear scheme that kills his individuality, or we simply help him learn to express something of his own in a drawing, look for his own methods, ways of working, plots. Although in reality it is not always easy. How to teach? Suggest, show, explain, advise, switch…

Don't skimp on drawing materials. Pencils that scratch the sheet and constantly break, brushes that “fade” to the drawing, current felt-tip pens will discourage anyone from drawing.

We help to learn

So, the task of an adult is to help the child learn to draw and develop this skill. You need to do this in stages: first, master the simplest lines, shapes, working methods and materials, gradually complicating the tasks:

• learn to use pencils, paints, brushes, felt-tip pens;
• we show unusual ways of drawing (stamping, abstraction, etc.);
• we help to master each color: both as a concrete and as an abstract concept (what associations does each color cause: objects, tastes, smells, tactile sensations, sounds);
• we help to gradually move from a simple task to a more complex one.

For example, to draw a little man, a small child will act on the principle of "stick - stick - cucumber". At the initial stage, this is enough. With age, if the development of the child is given the necessary attention, he, drawing, will already know that the head is not just a “round”: it has eyes, a nose, a mouth, it has ears, hair. Then he will learn to draw fingers, nails, hairs on his head, cilia, pupils, shoes. Even later, he will understand that the human body has certain harmonious proportions, and the face has its own individual features, its own expression.

If parents want their child to draw a person with anatomical accuracy, this is exactly what you can teach. In the same drawing circles. But the task is different - to develop the creative abilities of the child. Therefore, it is important to help him learn the world gradually, step by step, in order to reflect new knowledge with the help of lines and colors. After all, drawings for the children themselves are not a “photocopy” from something, successful or not to varying degrees. This is their way to convey to adults something important, experiences, achievements. This is a unique "visual language", a way to develop, think, move forward.

How to help a child develop drawing skills so as not to ruin his personality? The following recommendations will help you do this.

• Play drawing. Such games will help develop different skills. For example, tactile (drawing to music, in the dark, with eyes closed, with both hands or left hand). Visual perception is trained by drawings from memory or representation, drawing from life. Figurative thinking - drawings of something fictional, characters of fairy tales. Concentration at the age of 5 is developed by more complex tasks: draw, for example, a fish with all fins and scales.
• Always rejoice at the child's drawings, praise for any achievement, for creative finds, never blaming or criticizing.
• Don't force your child to draw. Creativity cannot be forced and thus something can be taught.
• Do not meddle with your advice if the child does not ask for them. Let him learn to create not at the behest, but at the call of the soul.
• Collect the works of a young artist in a separate folder and store them carefully: this is important both for him and for you.
• Engage in its development as a whole. Let him, first of all, learn about the world around him, help him in this. Then he will learn to know and express his inner world.
• Show your interest in the process: when we draw with children, then sculpt what we have depicted, compose a fairy tale about it, look at paintings by great artists, go to exhibitions, talk about art - we get a full-fledged learning process.
• Try not to lead the child along a certain path, but to help him follow the path that he chooses for himself.
• Show an example. If your child does not have a craving for drawing, draw something yourself. From the heart and for him.

Yes, it is impossible to teach someone to be a brilliant artist. But parents are quite capable of helping a child develop their artistic abilities.