How To Draw A Butterfly, Lesson for a Young Artsit

This free printable drawing worksheet gives helpful tips on how to draw a butterfly so both wings are equal and matching. It is ideal for the beginner. Parents and teachers can use this is class or as a take-home extra project.

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How to Draw a Butterfly worksheet. "Blue Pansy Butterfly"

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It is not hard to draw a nice and beautiful butterfly. There are thousands of different butterflies, which means if yours doesn't look just right you might have drawn one of the others by accident- so you can't really make a mistake.

The important thing is to take your time, in the beginning, to make sure that both wings are even and match on both sides.

Start out with a light pencil, that way you can erase later on, and draw the basic outline. Make the outline with a few reference lines to help keep things even. Use one line up and down to reference the body. Draw a light circle to get the head in the right place. Use three lines to start the wings the first one across like a "T" on the line you drew for the body, make sure it is lower than the head and goes the same distance on both ends.  Draw two lines downward and out for the top of the lower wing. Your butterfly will look like a stick figure right now but that will change.

Mark the outside edges of the wings, make sure the edges are an even distance from the vertical guideline on both sides. The wings have rough edges, draw sweeping lines in and out to give them shape. There are six or seven veins in each wing. The lower wing has a red dot outlined in black draw it lightly but color it last.

The head is slightly oval. It is not black but brown-grey, color it later. The antenna are straight lines that form a long "V" with little bumps on the inside ends.

The body is drawn like two long ovals overlapping in the middle and slightly overlapping the head. The body is not a s long as the wings but a little shorter.

Use a fine tip marker and trace your pencil marks and then erase the pencil.  Color the pattern blue and black Put a little purple in the blue and a little purple in the black.

My illustration is a Blue Pansy (Junoia arithia), it was drawn in sharpie pen and then painted with watercolors.

How to draw a butterfly

(c) Adron Dozat 3/17/12

How to Draw an Oak Tree, Drawing Worksheet For Young Arist.

Free how to draw an oak tree lesson.

This free printable how to draw an oak tree worksheet is simple to follow and gives the young artist confidence in drawing a majestic old tree. Few things are as beautiful as an old oak tree. They are wonderful subjects for drawings and add interest to a landscape.

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How to draw an oak tree worksheet.

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Start with a 2h or 2b pencil and lightly draw the basic outline in three lines. The first line is like a wide rainbow or umbrella. The next two lines are the sides of the trunk they are widely spaced and curve inward.

The leaves are in bunches at the end of the branches, so draw a lot of circles almost randomly inside the rainbow shape this is just to be like an outline. Now start to add detail and texture to the leaves by drawing lots of small squiggly lines inside those circles. Switch to a 4b or 6b pencil to make the leaves darker at the bottom of each circle group. Keep the top of each circle leaf group light. Add some branches wiggling out from behind and between the leaf groups.

The trunk is rough so draw lots of choppy vertical lines. Make one side of the trunk darker for the shade. The roots are shaped like a rounded letter "N" draw them a few times.

The grass is a lot of little clumps scattered. Keep them dark under the tree to make it look like shade.

Make a little world for your tree put some mountains in the background and other trees far away.

In my illustration at the bottom, I used a fine tip marker and outlined the best lines then erased the pencils. I finished it with a little watercolor. I thought the tire swing was a nice touch as well as the heart carved into it since those little touches tell a story.

Take your time and you will have a picture you can be proud of.

Illustration for how to draw an oak tree lesson. 

(c) Adron 3/11/12

How to Draw a Fuzzy Lamb Worksheet and lesson.

This free printable drawing worksheet is simple to follow and will help young artists gain confidence in drawing. Parents and teachers will find many ways to use this as a take-home extra project in class.

FIRST, A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT: Do not get discouraged if your drawings are not turning out the way you hoped. Learning to draw takes practice and time. Draw every day, come back, print off other projects, and try them. Soon, you will be making beautiful pictures.

How To Draw A Lamb Free Worksheet

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Lambs are fun and are popular in the spring.

Lightly draw a rectangle for the body and a circle for the rear.

Draw a circle for the head, make it half above the shoulder.

The ears are diamond-shaped and dangle off the side of the head.

The legs are thick.

Don't worry about the feet, draw grass over them.

Take your time with the fur, make lots of little half circles.

Use a darker pencil for the shadows.

The mouth is a straight line.

The nose is two dashes like a "V".

The eyes are under the eyebrows that slope down toward the nose.

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©Adron 3/8/12

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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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 Parrot Worksheet for Young Artist

This free printable drawing worksheet on how to draw a parrot, is a fun project.

This lesson will help give the young artist confidence in drawing. Parrots are cool. They are not hard to draw. This parrot is looking back over his shoulder at you, it is harder than a straight side view but more interesting and will prove what a good artist you are.

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How To Draw A Parrot Free Worksheet

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Start the drawing with two circles one for the body and one for the head.

Then add a smaller circle for the beak and one for the feet.

Draw two long lines for the tail feathers make them a little longer than the body.

Connect the circles to make the neck and shoulder and erase the extra lines.

Draw a squiggly line to divide the top of the beak from the bottom.

The bottom of the beak is a smaller half circle.

The wing feathers form a long skinny “W” across his back.

A few lines down the tail will make the three or four feathers, round off the feathers at the ends.

The face has a white cheek and the eye is a dot at the top of the cheek area.

Color the parrot red with a yellow stripe in the middle and a blue stripe at the bottom of the wings. Give him a red tail and head but remember his cheek is white.

My illustration was drawn with colored pencils, I used a photo from a book to get the colors right. I only spent a few minutes on it but if you take your time you can do a better job. Good luck.

Illustration for How To Draw A Parrot

(c) Adron D. 2/5/12

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How to Draw a Four Leaf Clover for a Young Artist

How to draw a four-leaf clover.

This free printable drawing worksheet has simple steps to give the young artist an approach to drawing a lucky four-leaf clover. It will give the young artist something easy to do and still challenge being equal on all sides.

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How To Draw A Four Leaf Clover

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The four-leaf clover is considered lucky and reminds you of St. Patrick, Ireland, good luck, and the Christian cross. It is not hard to draw a lovely four-leaf clover or even a small field of them. Try this lesson and decorate greeting cards, posters, and reports with them.

Start with a loose drawing of a square standing at an angle on one of its corners. The square shape does not need to be perfect. It is like a map or guideline. Divide the square into triangles by drawing lines through the square; these lines should intersect at the middle and themselves be like a long letter "V" at the corners; it may help at this point to erase the corners to maintain focus. 

Round off the corners of the four triangles and give the outside of each a slight heart shape. A genuine four-leafed clover will have one leaf, the fourth, smaller than the other three, so if you mess up and they are not even or perfect in size, don't worry- you may have just made it more realistic! Erase any extra lines and color with a pencil or marker. 

Add the stem and the grassy leaves with some sweeping straight lines.

Illustration for How To Draw A Four Leaf Clover

My Illustration above was drawn using the lesson plan described at the top. Here I went over the drawings of the 4 leaf clovers with a green sharpie and then colored the Illustration with yellow and green. I used layers of colored pencils to give interest. The shadows were done with red to darken the green. The highlights were done with yellow.

(c) Adron

How to Draw a Wolf - A Drawing Skill Builder for A Young Artist

This is a free how-to-draw worksheet for drawing a wolf.

Everybody likes pictures of Wolves. They can be fun to draw; people just think they are hard to draw, and when you do draw one, they are impressed!

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How to draw a wolf art lesson for the young artist.

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Start with a light pencil like a 2h or 2 b and draw the basic shape of the head; it is just a circle with two triangles for ears. Don't draw the ears right on the top but a little lower.

Use another circle in the bottom half to start the muzzle. Just mark off the place for now. We will come back to it later. 

Eyes: 

The eyes are about halfway down. The top of the eyes are shaped like an arch slanted down, and the bottom of the eyes are curved upward. The pupils are black, and the iris is yellow or white, shade the area around the iris dark grey. 

Muzzle: 

Erase the top of the circle that makes the muzzle and shade in the bottom to make the mouth. The nose is like a letter "U" with some darker circles for the nostrils; it is mostly black. 

Ears: 

Round off the triangles for the ears; the rest is shading- see below.

Fur:

Start by doing the lightest area first, then the darkest last. You can soften the fur by rubbing the pencil marks with a tissue or your finger.

Wolves all have some differences in the markings. It is a good idea to find a picture to use as a model before you begin to do the fur. The fur is not so hard. Just use the "Cheek" of the pencil, not the tip, and shade the fur out and away from the center of the face.  

Use medium pencils like a 4b for the light grey shadows and a dark pencil like a 6b for the really dark areas. Some places on the wolf's fur are white, such as his beard area it is like his chin and cheeks. Some wolves have a white eyebrow or a white spot above the eye. 

The fur forms patterns observe them carefully and try to follow them.

Below is a sketch I did of a wolf. I used markers with different hues of grey. It seemed right to use grey and black for the wolf. I did this in about an hour. If I spent a few more hours on it, it would look great, but I had to go. So If you take your time, you will be able to draw a better picture than I did.

How to draw a wolf illustration

1/21/12

How to Make Funny People Letters.

How to draw funny people letters. A free worksheet.  

This printable worksheet gives ideas about how to give simple letters personality, It is not hard and is fun for the young artist. You can use this with a poster, card or anything that needs illustration.

This free drawing worksheet, How To Make Funny Letters, may be downloaded to your device and printed easily.

How to Make Funny Letters.

Start by block drawing all the letters in a light pencil like an HB or 2B. You can do this by drawing a box for each letter and leave a space between each box. Not all letters need the same room some like M or W are going to be wider and need more room than I or J. Use guidelines to keep the letters straight and even.

Once you have drawn the letters in plain simple blocks then give them eyes, mouths, and feet. Keep them simple don't try to add hands and legs.

The eyes can be circles or glasses or dots with lines above for eyebrows. Girl letters can have long eyelashes. Try out different shapes for eyes. Try to make as many different eyes as you can.

The mouths can be just a smile, a u shape, a dash, a circle or big lips for the girls. You can have a tooth hanging down on some and frowns for others. A little line under a mouth looks like a shadow of a lower lip. If you put parenthesis on each side of a smile it looks like dimples.  Put the eyes and mouths anywhere you like in the letters there is no right or wrong place.

Put in feet or slippers or flippers or shoes or boots. Just draw ovals for the basic shape. You can have hip-high boots on letters like K or M or R. Letters like I and T can have two feet close together.

The letters are more fun when they have a personality. Make one look smart and one look dumb and one look vain and one look shy or any personality you like. Have some drama between them maybe one could be singing loudly and another squinting like he doesn't like her song. You can have one look like he is in love with another who wants to getaway. You can have one sleeping. Where you have letters that repeat you can have them be twins or the bride and groom in a wedding, or some kind of opposites.

Have Fun.

(c) Adron

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How To Draw Churchmouse Cartoon - a Drawing Lesson For Young Artist

This is a free printable worksheet for how to draw a churchmouse. 

It is a fun project, you can put them on greeting cards, posters, covers of reports, and even little love notes. These are called Churchmouse but they are like little people mouse. 

How to draw a Church mouse cartoon 

Once you have mastered the basic design you can adapt them to any situation.

Start by making the basic shape by drawing four circles to make the head, body and ears.  (You can trace around coins or jar lids if drawing circles are too hard.  A big circle for the body, the head is not so big and two circles for the ears.

Remember to draw lightly use an HB or 2B pencil at the start, that way you can erase when you need to.

In every picture, there is some cute thing you really like and want to get to right away but save the fun stuff for last. Let the special part be the finishing touches.

Add a circle for the nose and mouth area, and draw half-circles for the inside area of the ears.

Use ovals for Mama's feet and box shapes for Papa's boots. 

Halfway down the body draw a curved line for the arms. Keep the hands simple just circles or ovals. 

The eyes are just dots with a little dash above, if you tilt the dash you can give the face expression.

Erase a little on each side of the circle that makes the nose mouth area just enough to leave the mouth smiling. A dash underneath makes the chin.

You can put any clothing on the mouse you like, but keep it simple. Make shoes, ties, bows, and things like that big- it makes the illustration look cute.

You can make the tale any way you want or just leave it out. The tail can give it a playful pose.

Color the mouse black, pink, white, grey or brown. 

Most importantly when you are sketching something like this remember to have fun!

(c) Adron

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How to Draw a Tugboat

This is a free printable drawing worksheet art lesson for how to draw a tugboat.

Here is an easy and rewarding project for artists of any age.  It not only uses basic shapes to create the boat but also has a few ideas for details.

Tugboats are cool. They come in all sizes and shapes, so you can make yours just the way you want to. Take your time, and when you are done, people will say," "Wow! What a cool tugboat!"

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How to draw a tugboat worksheet.

Sometimes it takes me hours, but I create these how to draw worksheets, but I do it so that I can give back because I believe 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.

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Start with lightly drawing the basic outline shape.

Use the basic shapes of a rectangle and triangle.

Stack smaller rectangles for the upper decks. The boat's shape is a little lower at the back than at the front, so angle the rectangle that makes the main body of the tugboat down toward the back. A rectangle makes the smokestack.

Circles make the tires that hang on the sides. They can be any size and don't worry if they are not perfectly round since on a real tugboat they get all beaten up.
Add whatever details you like, such as windows, air funnel, lifeboat, life ring, barrels, boxes, ropes, ladder, windows, and radio antennas.

Go over your pencil sketch with colored pencils or a marker. Color the tires and smokestack black; keep the sides pale. Add rust dripping down here and there. The smoke is darker on the bottom. Don't overdraw the city in the background. You can put a lot of color in the sky and water to make up for the white boat.

I did my worksheet with a fine tip marker and a few broad-tipped markers with different values of gray for the illustration. So you can see it can be drawn nicely with markers.

Here is one way to do the tugboat picture. It is painted in watercolor. I did it in about 40 minutes. If I took my time, it would have been better. (Just like I always say, take your time, and people will be amazed, but if you hurry, it will be disappointing).

Watercolor illustration for How to Draw a Tugboat.

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(c) Adron D.11/28/11