How To Draw Sherlock Holmes Worksheet (classic pose)

How to draw the face of Sherlock Holmes drawing lesson and printable worksheet. 

How to draw the classic Sherlock Holmes is a fun and rewarding project that will give confidence and satisfaction to the young artist. The printable worksheet below may be printed for free. This face is in profile since it is the classic view to show the hawk-like nose that he was famous for.

How To Draw Sherlock Holmes Worksheet

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BEGINNINGS
The head is shaped like an egg but tilted to the left at the bottom. Do not draw the hat or clothing until you have a good beginning on the face.

Mark off your proportions:
     * The eye is halfway down the face.
     * The bottom of the nose is halfway from the eye to the chin.
     * The mouth is halfway from the nose to the chin.
     * The ear is almost in the center.

STYLE
Use straight choppy lines where ever possible when adding detail since it will give him a rugged look.

DETAILS TO THE FACE
The nose is hawk-like, so it sticks out and down like a rectangle.
There is a ridge on most faces over the eye, and the top of the nose is back under the ridge.

The mouth is simple; The upper lip is a line from the nose down and slightly out and then back, and it curves down for the frown. The lower lip is a half-circle that connects the upper lip and the chin. The chin is straight lines.

The eye is squinting. The top lid is arched, the bottom goes straight across from the nose and then curves up a little at the edge closest to the ear.

The ear is simple, with a few curved lines.

The hair is a mess, so draw a lot of curly shapes.

Put some shadow under the eye for bags and put wrinkles around the eyes and mouth. Put a shadow under the cheekbone and use dots on the upper lip like a mustache.

Lastly, draw the hat, coat, overcoat, and wool scarf.

(c) Mr. Adron 9/8/13

How to Draw a Young Wizard Worksheet.

This free printable how-to-draw worksheet helps young artists gain confidence in drawing. There are some elements of manga art and classic American comic book style in this project.

FIRST, A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT: If your drawing does not turn out perfect, do not get discouraged, no one is as hard on themselves as a true artist. Learning to draw takes practice, so draw every day, and soon you will be making beautiful pictures. Come back often and try some of my other projects.

How to Draw a Young Wizard Worksheet

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To print, highlight it and send it to your printer or save it to your device to print later. Some people get the best results by dragging the image to the desktop and printing from there. If you have problems, see the how-to-print tab above.

Start by drawing a stick figure with joints at the elbows and knees. Try a few different poses on some scratch paper. Use a large triangle for the chest and a line across the hips to indicate how wide he is. Make the pose interesting by having your wizard do something or hold something.

Once the pose is decided on, fill out the body with the shapes of the muscles. They are long and rounded. The youth is not very broad, he has narrow shoulders, and he is thin.

The hands are like squares, with lines for fingers. The right hand has a palm-up position the thumb is outside. The left hand has a palm forward position and the thumb is up.

Keep the face simple. It is a narrow face and has a small chin. Draw the features with only a few lines, and they are mostly straight since he is not showing much expression.

When the proportions are right, draw the clothes. Keep them flowing and follow the shape of his body. Give the clothes flowing graceful lines. Make some of the lines broad and some narrow for interest. Use shadow to make the clothes rounded.

The orb has some electric magic coming out and going to the staff. Use different lines that are choppy and short. This will give variety and interest to the project.

Illustration
How To Draw The Young Wizard

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(c) Adron 1/20/13

How to Draw The Christmas Angel, Worksheet

How to draw the Christmas angel drawing lesson and printable worksheet.

This free printable drawing worksheet is an easy drawing lesson, perfect for beginners, and is helpful for any angelic, fantasy, or figure drawing.
 

How To Draw The Christmas Angle Worksheet.

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If you like this project, you might also like the How to Draw a Flying Angel. CLICK HERE.

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Sometimes I spend hours creating these how-to-draw worksheets, but I do it so that I can give back because I believe that when you have been given a gift it is so you can be a gift to others, and I hope these worksheets are a means of blessing to you. 

PRINTABLE NOTES

Use an articulated stick figure to perfect the pose and help with the composition.  An articulated stick figure is a stick figure with joints and girth in the chest and hips.

The hips are above the halfway mark, and the elbows are at the narrowest point of the waist.

COMPOSE
Begin by sketching lightly since you will be erasing later on. Draw the pose you want your angel to have; the example in the worksheet below has the angel with hands extended in greeting. You may want your angel to hold a candle, musical instrument, songbook, or not holding anything but have arms in the air for celebration.

CLOTHES
Once you have determined the pose draw the figure over the stick figure and add the robes. The example borrows the seasonal red with white trim for the robe and uses the traditional white gown underneath a gold belt and collar. Let the lines of the garment flow and have grace. The waist is narrower than the chest, and the hips are as wide as the shoulders.

HANDS

The hands are hard for some young artists, so I suggest keep them simple, draw them like mittens. The thumbs are up because the hands are held outward and palm up. If you want fingers, then draw three or four. The feet are just ovals with sandals.

FACE
Keep the face simple. The head is shaped like an egg, and the eyes are halfway from the crown of the head to the chin. Draw the eyes as dots with a curving line going out for the eyelid. The eyebrows are just a curve over the eyes. The mouth is a straight line with a wide "U" underneath. Just two dashes make the nose. Draw the hair last as a lot of little loops going down onto the shoulders.

WINGS AND STUFF
The wings look like a great big letter "M." Start with a circle on each side of the head. To the circle, add a line that curves out and away for the outside edge of the wing. There are three rows of feathers. Use a guideline to keep them even on both sides. You can make the rows go straight across or angled down and away. The example in the worksheet is down and away. Draw only three or four feathers on each row. Keep them simple.

Over the head, you can put a halo if you like; since she is the Christmas Angel, she has the Christmas Star in her halo.


Color the robe red and the gown very light blue. I like the wings to be white but added a little blue for the shadows.

How To Draw The Christmas Angle

(c) Mr. Adron D.12/14/12

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How To Draw A Hero Jumping to Action. Drawing Worksheet

This free printable drawing worksheet will help put some action into your drawings. This is one method that helps to easily draw a figure in action with drama.

FIRST, A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT; If your drawings do not turn out the way you want do not give up learning to draw takes practice so draw every day and soon you will be making beautiful pictures. Come back often and try a few projects for ideas.

Worksheet for How to Draw a Hero Jumping Into Action.

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If you want to put some action in your drawings of superheroes here is a method that is easy and will help.

PRINTABLE PROJECT NOTES.

I suggest you start with a light pencil that you can erase easily and cleanly. You can switch to a darker one or markers later.

Begin with a jointed stick figure. We can all draw stick figures but go the next step and put dots for the elbows, knees, shoulders, hips, ankles, and then draw lines for the bones. It will look like a skeleton. Use this method to figure out the pose of the hero.

In my illustration I have him jumping with both feet off the ground, one leg is forward with the knee straight up and the leg is foreshortened; the other leg has the knee straight down and the lower part of the leg is behind the first. The shoulders are tilted, the hands are grasping a weapon, one hand is palm up and one hand is palm down.

Place the weapon before you get too far along but don't get caught up in detail just yet.

Once you are happy with the pose and the sense of action start to fill the figure out by adding the shape and the thickness of the muscle. Add clothes and armor last or drawing the figure will get lost inside of it and things just won't look right.

Keep the face simple. In my illustration the face is turned to the profile so it is seen from the side. The eyes are half way down and the nose is halfway from the eyes to the chin and the mouth is halfway from the nose to the chin. Our hero's hair is blowing back since he is in motion. If you have problems with the face you can add a beard or some helmet.

Erase the extra lines. You can go over it in sharpie and then color it in like I did, in my example I used water colors.

Give him some enemies to jump over and fight, or have him jumping over a bridge that is collapsing, or a volcano.

Illustration for Hero Jumping Into Action, Hercules 

(C) Adron

How To Draw High Flying Circus Acrobats

This free printable drawing worksheet, How to Draw Acrobats, may be downloaded to your device and printed easily.

Just highlight and send to your printer or save for later. Sometimes it works better if you drag the image to the desktop and print from there. If you have problems see the how to print tab above for some suggestions.

Worksheet for how to draw acrobats

Using a simple "Jointed" stick-figure frame makes drawing this picture and others like it easy.

Start with a framework of dots for joints and lines for bones. It is like a stick figure skeleton. Keep it simple, just get the basic position and correct proportions.

Remember one figure is above looking down and the other is underneath looking up.

Add lines drawn around the stick figure to give it more body shape. Keep it simple.

Erase the stick figure frame and finish both bodies' shape.

Add shadow to give both bodies form.

(c) Adron 7/2/12

HOW TO DRAW THE MAD SCIENTIST DR. FRANKENSTEIN

This free printable worksheet for how to draw a mad scientist

This is a simple lesson and has tips that will give the young artist confidence in drawing a basic face with a theme. 

Parents and teachers will find many ways to use this in class and at home. This lesson can be for any face, not just the mad scientist. 

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How to draw the mad scientist worksheet

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PRINTABLE LESSON NOTES

Start by lightly drawing a circle on your paper. Make it a little higher than the middle of the page. Then draw a large shaped “U” below the circle for the jaw.

Lightly draw a line down the middle to use as a guide and one halfway across for where the eyes go. 

Halfway from the centerline to the jaw draw another line for the nose and halfway down again draw a line for the mouth. You will erase these later on. 

He has a “monocle” over one eye- draw it first. You can trace around a coin to make a circle. His other eye is blind so I drew it wrinkled and closed and shadowed it lightly. 

The ears are like a figure “8” with a few curved lines inside.

Start the nose with three circles across make the one in the middle bigger. The nostrils are like parentheses on either side. I only put a shadow on one side of the nose and underneath. 

Give him bushy eyebrows to make up for his bald head.

Keep the mouth simple like a very flat “M” with a shadow underneath for the lower lip. 

Put some lines on both sides of the mouth. 

The neck starts right under the ears. His shoulders slope down.

Draw the operating lamp on his head last. Or maybe two pair of glasses. Erase the extra lines.

Dr Frankenstein pen and marker by Adron

(c) Adron 3/2/12

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How to Draw a Viking Ship, a lesson for the Young Artist.

This how-to draw a Viking ship is a free printable how-to draw worksheet for the young artist. 

This free printable drawing worksheet, How To Draw A Viking Ship, is an artist skill builder for the young artist I designed it for the kids who like Viking ships. You can quickly draw this freehand by following the patterns below. It would make a great cover page on a report or a poster.

If you need help printing, CLICK HERE to visit the how to print page for some suggestions or try one of the updated links below that should print better.

How to draw a Viking Ship worksheet for the young artists.

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If you like this project, you might want to see how to draw a pirate ship.

Remember to draw the Viking ship large in the center of the paper. Use a light touch with a hard pencil, so when you draw over it in marker, the pencil will be easy to erase. Start with the shapes and work from the outline of the ship to the interior details. You can use coins or jar lids to draw perfect circles for when you are starting the rough draft of the Viking ship.

You don't have to draw it just like I did. Don't draw the Vikings until the end and keep them simple; remember they had long hair and beards, so you can cover a lot up. Color the sail with red stripes. The ship's hull could be brown or gray-brown; the shields were made of wood and painted different designs, but I left that up to you. Use contrasting colors to darken in the shadows. I didn't draw this with attention to the shadows since it was a complicated drawing, but you can figure out where you want the shadows, like under the shields or the hull of the ship.

Don't forget the background; you can put your Viking ship at sea with a blue sky or in a bay with a village in the background. Enjoy!

Viking ship pencil drawing.

(c) Adron D. 11/16/11 

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How to Draw a Warrior Dwarf. A Project for a Young Artist

This is a free printable drawing worksheet for how to draw a warrior dwarf.

This is an easy drawing project for the artist of any age.
This is a project that many young artists will enjoy drawing.

This can be used by parents and teachers in class or at home. It can be an extra activity to fill in time or sent home as an extra project.

If you have problems printing see the "HOW TO PRINT" tab above.

How to draw a dwarf warrior

PRINTABLE NOTES

This Dwarf is not hard to draw, and if you keep adding little touches, it can be a cool picture. Being a fantasy dwarf, if you make any mistakes, no one can tell because that is maybe how it is supposed to be

I start with an outline of the Dwarf.  Since he is a fantasy, you don't have to worry about proper body proportions and dimensions. The proportions for a dwarf are different; using the head as a measure, the Dwarf stands about four heads tall. I use blocky squares to create an outline of the body and then go over them to develop the drawing. 

The head is larger than usual, but the eyes are still halfway between the top of the head and the chin. I draw a faint line down the center of the face to keep everything in the right places. The eyebrows are bushy on the top and smooth underneath. I gave him white eyebrows because I thought he was getting too dark.

The nose is pudgy; I draw it as three circles, one big in the center and two smaller ones on the sides, then I shade them until everything looks right.

The mouth is easy since his big mustache covers the upper lip. I make the lower lip by drawing two circles, one next to the other, then connect them with a wavy upper curved line, then I shade underneath it. 

He is an older dwarf, and I gave him wrinkles around the eyes.  The eyes are large because I think dwarfs live in mines, so they need big eyes. Start with the circles and then draw the eyelids over them.

You may need to practice the hands on a separate paper and even trace them onto the final project. The hands are really a few short lines. Don't forget to put the shiny spot in early, so you don't color over it.

I gave him a wooden shield and a battle-ax, but you can add different props like a sword or lance or club or a cooking pot. He is a warrior, so I put a few dents in his helmet.

Don't make the boots too black; use gray for most of it and add a few touches of black for the shape.

Draw the fur lightly using the pencil to make swift sweeps out and away from the top of the boots; as you sweep the pencil out and away, lift it up, so the line gets thinner as it moves.

I did an illustration where I put my Dwarf in a forest world, but you can create your own world, maybe a cave or volcano or pub; it is up to you. Have fun.

Watercolor painting of a Warrior Dwarf

I did this illustration in watercolor. It took about three hours, and I really enjoyed painting it. The only problem was that my son says it is not a dwarf, but it is a lawn gnome.

(c) Adron