How to Draw a Locomotive. Art lesson, Worksheet

This printable worksheet will help make drawing a train engine easy to draw by using basic shapes to simplify the design. It will give the young artist confidence in drawing.

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Start by using basic shapes to create an outline. There were many different locomotives. Some had 2 or 4 or 6 wheels or even more. Some had big smokestacks and some had smaller ones. There were different pipes and things on them so you cant go wrong whatever you draw there probably was one like it.

Draw the lines for the train tracks before you draw the wheels that way the wheels will be setting on the tracks and not too high or low. You can trace coins or bottle lids to make perfect circles. There is a metal shaft that goes across the big wheels draw it first before you do too much detail on the wheels.

The main part of the locomotive is the tank it is a rectangle going across the engine and the cab where the engineer stands is a rectangle going up and down at the back of the first rectangle. Draw some squares in the cab for the windows.

The front has a "cow catcher" it is a triangle with some lines in it.

There is a small rectangle between the two smaller wheels that is the piston to make the drive shaft move. It is darker on the bottom.

Add shadows to make the tank look round.

Don't forget to draw the coal car. called the tender.

Make smoke darker on the bottom and lighter at the top.

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illustration for how to draw a locomotive

(C) Adron 3/31/12

How To Draw Blossoms on a Tree. Worksheet For Young Artist.

How to draw a tree blossoms art lesson.

Drawing pictures of flowers is one of my favorite things to do. This is a simple how-to-draw blossoms on a tree worksheet that will help the young artist draw sprint blossoms. There are tips and illustrations to make it easy to draw a beautiful picture.

How to draw blossoms worksheet.

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It is not very hard to draw blossoms on a tree and if you take your time and use some colors it could be a beautiful picture.  If it is the first time you are trying a project like this then keep it simple.

There are different blossoms: some are crinkly, some fuzzy, and some geometric, like ours here.

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DESIGN
Start with a light pencil like a 2b and draw two or three circles for the blossoms.  Make five marks evenly spaced around the edge of the circle.   Draw a small circle in the center.

BEGINNING
Draw five circles inside the big circle these five should touch the center and touch one of the five marks. Don't make these circles perfect keep them irregular and interesting.

Add a line starting from the center and going halfway down the middle of the five irregular circles.

In the center, circle draw three or four smaller circles.

LEAVES
Draw the leaves with two sweeping lines that curve out away and then back toward each other. Place them behind the blossoms, if you shade or color the leaves it will make the blossoms look brighter. If you want to add details you can add the ridges and veins of the leaves.

BUDS
The buds are smaller circles at the end of a skinny line. Draw one or two curved lines through the buds to make individual petals.

The branch is not straight but a little zig-zag. Use short choppy lines to give it texture.

Erase the extra lines last.

You can color your picture. Use a reddish-brown for the branch and add some purple for the shadow.
Make the sky light blue and put some purple splashes in the upper half.
The leaves are yellow highlights with green and a little blue for shadow.
The blossoms are mostly white but add a touch of pink around the edges and lavender for the shadows.

Watercolor  Illustration How to Draw Blossoms 

This illustration was done in watercolor you could easily use pastel or pencil. Good luck.

© Adron 3/28/12

How To Draw A Mermaid, Drawing Lesson Free Printable Worksheet

This free printable worksheet helps to make Mermaids easier to draw than you think. It uses a few simple steps to get started and is ideal for the young artist or the beginner.

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How to Draw A Mermaid Worksheet

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BEGINNING
Start with a light pencil like a 2B and lightly draw the framework for the figure. The head is oval the shoulders are tilted upward to the waiving hand the body is slightly triangle. Use dots to mark the shoulders, elbows, and hands. Draw a circle for the hip.Use a graceful sweeping line for the fish part. The fin can be bell-shaped or like a triangle.

SECOND
After you get the rough dimensions worked out then start to outline the body around the framework. Keep the face simple since it is small. Use a lightly drawn line to mark the vertical center and three vertical marks to place the eyes, mouth, and nose.

FACE
Keep the face simple. A few lines are all it takes. The mouth is straight across on the top and “U” shaped on the bottom.A little dash makes she shadow below the lower lip. The eyes are a line and a dot. The nose is a curve from the eyebrow to the shadow underneath the nose.

DETAIL
The Scales take time. Draw light stripes to measure and keep them even, then draw the scales along the lines they get smaller toward the fin. The rock has a shadow on one side draw it darker.  Use short scratchy marks to make the rock look rough. Go up and down on the sides and then back and forth for the top.

WAVES
The waves have a shadow side too. The waves at the bottom of the picture are bigger and darker; they get smaller and lighter toward the top of the ocean. Keep the hands simple.

HAIR AND CLOTHING
Mermaids have long hair (Their scissors would rust in the ocean.) I gave the mermaid a swimsuit made out of sea shells and pearls. The seashells are like triangles, rounded on the bottom and with a little bump on the top.

Illustration For How To Draw A Mermaid

After you draw it in pencil then go over it with a sharpie then erase the pencil. 

(c) Adron 3/22/12

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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PRINTABLE LESSON NOTES

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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PRINTABLE LESSON NOTES

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