How To Draw A Garden Lamp Post

How to Draw a  Lamppost

How to draw a garden lamp is a fun art lesson.

This printable drawing worksheet and art lesson is an easy and fun project that the young artist will quickly master. Drawing a garden scene is easy, and an old-style lamp on a post makes it interesting.


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Printable How To Draw A Garden Lamppost Worksheet

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Start by outlining the lamp post lightly in the center of the page or to make it interesting off to the side. The lamp post is just two lines going up and down. The top of the lamp post has the lamp and it is shaped like a diamond.

Add windows and frames for the windows. Add some details like a ball on the top and a little cuff between the lamppost and the lamp. Remember to make it look round by using a shadow that goes from light to dark.

The flowers start as a lot of large circles draw them lightly so you can erase them later. Make a dot in the center of each circle. Starting at the dot draw skinny diamond shapes for the petals of the flowers. Make lots of leaves shaped like spades or hearts.

The bricks start out as three curved lines that go all the way around for the planter. Divide the lines by drawing up and down lines to make individual bricks. Use an alternating pattern for interest. Draw a line for the top of the bricks but do it lightly so you can have some flowers and leaves going over them. Draw grass to cover the bottom. Add a few chips and dots for roughness.

For background, I put in a wall with the same brick pattern but I used bigger shapes.  Make these lighter and use less detail.  Behind the wall, I have a row of trees. I made these with even less detail by just using a few scribbled lines, and shadows.

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If you like my example, you can include the path. The grass outlines the path. I used irregular oval shapes for the stepping stones. Make the path curve. A curved path is more interesting and brings the eye into the picture.

How to draw a garden lamp post

(c) Adron D 5/12/12

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How to Draw a Mailbox Easy Worksheet

How to draw a rural mailbox art lesson.

This free drawing worksheet, How To Draw A Rural Mailbox, may be downloaded to your device and printed easily.

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How to Draw a Rural Mailbox Worksheet.

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You see these mailboxes on posts all over the countryside.  With a few flowers, they make an excellent addition to a picture or the focus of a picture.

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You can use a ruler to get the lines straight, but if you don't, it is OK since they get weather-worn and are often not straight.

I start with the post. Use three parallel lines for the up and down post. Two lines make the horizontal arm or shelf the mailbox sits on and three parallel lines at an angle for the supporting brace.

The wood has "grain," so draw some rough lines back and forth going the way of the pieces of wood.

The top is pointed in mine, but you can make yours flat. The mailbox is just a horizontal line and an arch at the end.

Don't forget the little flag.

The flowers on the post are circles with dark centers, and the leaves are drawn like hearts and spades. The grass is long up close, and the grass far away is short. The lilies under the mailbox are like cones on thin stalks.

The road is wide at the bottom and gets narrow far away.

I draw the background lightly, so it looks far away. There is a row of bushes and behind that a row of trees.

Watercolor illustration for how to draw a mailbox.

(c) Adron 5/8/12

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How to Draw a Shark Easy Worksheet.

How to Draw a Shark Worksheet.

This is a free drawing worksheet for How To Draw A Shark.

It may be downloaded to your device and printed easily. Sharks are easy to draw. You only need to draw two lines and a few triangles.

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Use a light pencil to start with to make an outline. You will go over it later with a darker drawing pencil or colors.

The first line is a line for the bottom it is almost straight but curves down a little at the chest and then up slightly at the front. The second line is curved for the back. The curve is highest over the shoulder and long going down to the tail.

The fins are all triangles at first then you need to make them rounded. The dorsal fin is the one on to the top and is near the center. There are many kinds of sharks and they have the dorsal fin in different places some are more forward and some more back. After you have it outlined it then give the back of the fin a slight double curve like a letter "S".

The tail is two skinny triangles one long on the top and one short on the bottom. The top one has a slight bend forward at the top and the bottom one has a slight bend backward.

The longest fin is the forward fin it is a skinny triangle the front has a slight roundness toward the back.

There is a little fin underneath by the tail and another small fin at the bottom over halfway back.
The eye is catlike but black, there is a shiny spot from the clear membrane over the eye. There is a white ring around the eye.

The gills are five curved lines where he should have an ear.

Sharks have a nostril in its nose, it is like a dot with a skinny "C" shape going down.

Color your shark grey or blue. They are dark on top and white underneath, but there are many kinds of shark and some have different colors.

(c) Adron D. 5/6/12

How to Draw a Willow Tree.

How To Draw a Willow Tree

How to draw a willow tree printable art lesson worksheet.

This free printable drawing worksheet, How To Draw A Willow Tree, may be downloaded to your device and printed easily. Willow trees are fun to draw and add an interesting feature to any landscape.

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Printing tip. Set your printer for greyscale and not black and white so you get all the detail.

How to draw a willow tree worksheet.

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BEGINNINGS
I always start an outdoor picture with an idea of where the horizon (where the sky meets the earth) is. I never recommend that the horizon to be in the middle of the picture because that is boring, but here I sort of did make it that way, it only works because it is very jagged like the trees and the forest in the background.

TRUNK
The trunks of willow trees are twisted and not straight, so start the willow with a wiggly trunk and put in some angled lines for the twisted look.

BRANCHES
In my drawing, I wanted to show some branches, so I did the branches before I did the long hanging leaves. The willow tree has branches that just go out away from the trunk so draw them outward and then up.

OUTLINE SHAPE
Lightly draw some circles to be an outline for the shape of the tree's top. Make it interesting and not just an umbrella or mushroom shape.

HANGING LEAVES
The hanging leaves all come to a stop at a straight line at the bottom so draw a line to keep you from drawing the leaves too low. The hanging leaves on the back side of the tree are more of shading than drawing. Shade downward and fill in the areas behind the branches so they stand out. Then draw the leaves in the front of the branches sketching down and outward. Use a pattern like an upside-down "Y."

DARKER AREAS
You might need to change to a lighter and harder pencil for the leaves on the sunny side of the tree and use darker softer pencils for the leaves on the shady side of the tree. If you have overdrawn the leaves and made the tree too dark use and eraser to lift out some lighter areas. Make the grass in clumps under the tree.

BACKGROUND
Willows grow near water so I put a creek next to mine but you might want yours to be by a lake or waterfall.

Draw the background lightly since it is far away, add some interest to the background with a dark row of bushes and a lighter row of trees.

How To Draw Willow Illustration

© Mr Adron D 5/5/13

How To Draw An Elephant. Easy Worksheet

This free drawing worksheet, How To Draw An Elephant, is an easy drawing lesson. It only takes a few basic shapes and a little practice to draw a beautiful elephant.

How to draw an elephant worksheet.

Start with the large rectangle of the body. Add to that a circle for the head. (We come back to the head later).
The legs are rectangles going in different directions downward. The knees are low and so bend the rectangle for the bottom of the leg low.

The ear is a large triangle kind of sideways.

After you have a good outline start to round it out. Round up slightly at the shoulder. Round up slightly at the hip and the back of the hip where the tail is.  Round down the belly. Round out the bend in the legs. round off the ear.

The toes look like the letter "m."

The ear has rough edges.

The eye is small and is low on the head and toward the back.

Save the fun stuff for last so when you have the body looking good draw the tusk and the trunk.

Elephants have very wrinkly skin. Draw wrinkles across the trunk and legs, with some twisty wrinkles at the knees but keep them light, they are only a detail not a focus.

Shadow the legs on the other side, and shadow around the ear and belly.

How To Draw An Elephant pencil example

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How to Draw a Pirate Ship. Easy Worksheet

This is a how-to-draw pirate ship worksheet for the beginner artist. 

This is an easy ship to draw and perfect for the young or beginner artist. Since pirates used whatever ship they could get their hands on there really was not a special kind of pirate ship that they all had to look like. So, don't get upset if yours don't look just like you want it to there might have been one just like the one you made.

How to draw a pirate ship worksheet.

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BEGINNINGS
Draw the horizon first. The horizon is where the sky meets the ocean. I draw it first so the horizon is level all the way across the picture. If you goof it up just draw an island in the background but wait for the end for any changes like that.

The outline of the little pirate ship starts out to look like a shoe. The front is a curved line, then draw a second parallel line/ there are two since this is a big piece of wood on the old ships. The back of the ship is a line going mostly up and down but tilted back a little at the top. The bottom and top of the boat is a straight horizontal.

DETAILS
The masts are about as high as the body is long. My example has only two but you can have one or four if you like. I thought it looked better to keep it simple. The mast tilt back slightly. Draw them lightly so if you have to erase over some of them to draw the sails it will be easy. Don't forget the mast that sticks out at the front.

SAILS
The sails are basic shapes of square and triangles but slightly curved, they do not need to be perfect since in real life sails flap around in the wind.

EXTRAS
If you are happy with the basic design then go over it and erase any extra lines that needs to be cleaned up.
Add details like cannon holes, ropes, rudder, anchor, port holes, box like places where stuff would be kept, and maybe a pirate or two.
The waves far away, near the horizon line, are smaller and the waves in the foreground toward the bottom are larger.

FINISHING
Go over your drawing in a darker pencil or color pencils or markers.
If you take your time it will look good.

Illustration for how to draw a pirate ship easy worksheet

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(c) Adron D. 4/28/12

How to Draw an Eagle Face Lesson and Worksheet

I am delighted to share my free printable drawing worksheet for How To Draw An Eagle Face.

Here is a lesson for the young artist and a worksheet.

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Eagles are beautiful and awesome creatures. You might feel the first effort to draw one is not successful. I recommend you make a few practice sketches; this is what professional artists do all the time. After you have worked out some of the hard parts, then try to do a serious project.

How to draw an eagle looking at you. Worksheet.

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The basic head shape is a circle.

Draw the top of the beak as a line. It starts a little above halfway; draw it out and down.
The bottom of the beak is not a straight line but jagged.

The eye is a circle cut off at the top by the eyebrow.
The eyebrow tilts down at both ends.

After you get the basic shape, modify the back of the head by extending the line out and down.
Draw a circle for the shoulder under the beak.

The eye has a black center, and a shiny spot in the middle makes it a square, and be careful not to color over it.

The feathers on the body are slightly rounded at the tip.
The feathers on the shoulder are shorter and more rounded.

Color the feathers grey and use only a little black for the details.
The beak and the eye are yellow.
Add a little blue for the shadows on the white feathers.

To make the head look really white, add a little color to the background behind it.  Sometimes you can do this by rubbing a little tissue over the pencil and smearing it around a soft grey look that makes the white look whiter.

How to draw an eagle example

(c) Adron 4/21/12

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How To Draw A Robin Bird. Drawing Worksheet For A Young Artist.

I am delighted to share my free printable how-to-draw a robin bird worksheet with you.

This project is fun and will help give the young artists tips for drawing birds. 

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Printable how to draw a robin worksheet. 

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Robins are fun and easy to draw. The differences between a robin and many others birds are so slight that if you can draw one, you can easily draw almost any bird.

Start with the basic shape. Think of the body of a robin as a teardrop shape sideways. Draw it as a circle for the chest and one on top and a little forward.

The trail starts as a long triangle that is about half as long as the body.

The line for the front of the bird is a sweeping graceful curve; draw it over the front part of the circle and down to the tail. The line for the back is almost straight.

The beak is a long triangle, the back of the beak is another triangle pointing to the bottom of the eye.

The wing starts as a smaller circle on the shoulder. Draw a line down the front of the wing circle and then back to the tail.

The tail has two feathers.

The legs start as triangles at the bottom of the bird; they are more toward the back. The legs are two straight lines; the feet are three lines forward and slightly curved downward, and one line back curved downward slightly.

When you finish the basic drawing, add the eye.

• The robin has a black eye with white above and below it. 
• There are two or three white throat stripes. 
• The head is black. 
• The wings and tail are greys. 
• The chest is red but not a ruby red more of an orange-red combination. The red of the chest goes to the legs.
• Behind the legs is a white area. 

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

Illustration for how to draw a Robin

I hope you create a masterpiece!

(c) Adron D. 4/19/12

How To Draw A Raccoon Face, Lesson and Worksheet.

Free how to draw a raccoon face worksheet.

 This free printable drawing worksheet will give the young artist confidence as they learn to draw. It breaks down the project into simple steps.

How To Draw A Raccoon, may be downloaded to your device and printed easily.

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Raccoons are fun to draw and it is not that hard to draw the face of one.  Start by drawing lightly since you will want to erase some of the extra lines and the guidelines later.

Start with a medium-large circle in the middle of your paper.
Draw a vertical guideline down the center so you have evenness on both sides.

Draw a guideline across the lower third this will be to place the eyes later.

Draw two smaller round circles to start the ears.

Draw a medium-sized circle for the muzzle at the bottom of the first big circle. Now you have a rough outline to build up your portrait.

Draw the eyes as two circles on the top of the horizontal guideline. Remember the shiny spots, draw little squares in the eyes, and don't color them leave them white.  There is a thick eyelid draw it as a line halfway around the bottom half of the eyes.

The nose is a teardrop shape but it has a shiny spot across the top so draw it in to remember to not color over it.

The mask is almost straight across the top but tilts down a little. Every raccoon has a mask that is a little different so if yours doesn't look perfect don't worry somewhere there is a raccoon with a mask like the one you drew.

The fur is the part that takes most of the work. So take your time. Draw the fur as many short lines where the pencil or pen goes up and out. As you draw the fur lift the pencil or pen up as your draw. The fur has a direction it goes out away from the center, so at the top, it goes up at the sides it goes out.
Take your time. Take a few breaks and stand up and stretch. When you are done you will have a drawing you will be proud of.

(c) Adron

How to Draw A Dolphin Drawing Lesson For Young Artist.

This free printable drawing worksheet is an easy lesson that uses a few simple lines to draw a dolphin and young artist are quick to master this project.

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How to draw a Dolphin worksheet.

Once you master the basic shape you can have them doing all kinds of things in your pictures. Drawing the dolphin is all about graceful lines. Take your time and make the lines flow like water.

Start with a simple arch like a rainbow.  The back of the arch near the tail is bent more than the front near the nose.

Draw the line for the bottom.  It will be an arch too, but straighter for the first 2/3rd of the way.

Lightly draw a triangle for the top fin.  Make it near the center. There are different types of dolphins and some have the fin more forward and other's have the fin more back, so don't worry if it is not perfect.

Draw the triangle for the lower fin.

Draw a triangle for the back flipper; it is like a flattened triangle.

Go over your lines with a darker pencil or marker, make the lines flow.

The nose is rounded.  The mouth goes almost all the way to the eye.

The eye is a round shadow with a line through it.

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