Drawing Ideas for Kids

If you are looking for cool drawing ideas for beginners.  This learn to sketch video will show you how to draw a cool face in less than a minute.  Cool things to draw are everywhere.  Get some paper and take my two minute online drawing class.  You don't need any special skills, just some scrap paper and a marker. This is a part of my easy things to draw on one piece of paper series.  I hope it helps everyone to learn to draw online.  My students are always saying, "Teach me to DRAW!" These drawing lessons are quick and easy and perfect for beginning artists.  This is a great art lesson for kids.  It will show them step by step how to draw and quick and easy cartoon face. Click here if you are on an iPod or iPhone!

This series of drawing tutorials that will use an ordinary piece of paper to show kids some great drawing ideas!  It will allow drawing students to create an amazing and unique drawing project that changes each day.  They key to making these super easy drawing ideas look great will be the coloring.  Cool easy things to draw don't take a lot of time.  This is a great drawing idea for kids because it quickly builds confidence and allows students to add things at their own pace. My students love these face drawing ideas and they love drawing people.

If you can write your name, you can create cool drawings.  The drawing ideas on this page are failure-free and student tested.  Most of the drawing ideas can be done in less than two minutes, some of the drawings can be created in less than a minute. Students love these drawing ideas because it gets them started.  They are easy drawings, but they unlike the potential of the child.  Drawing is not about physical skill, after all, drawing a cartoon is no different than writing your name.  It is a bunch of circles, dots, squiggles and lines.  It is just seeing how those lines come together that is what helps kids to learn to draw and create.  These drawing lessons are meant to be doodled on paper.  You don't have to follow the tutorial exactly, that's why I took out the words.  Just watch and get a sense of how it works and then create.  When you find a drawing that you really like, spend more time adding details to that drawing.  Ha...

There is nothing like being able to draw quickly to help build confidence in young artists.  This drawing idea is created in less than two minutes and it only involves drawing about 20 lines and squiggles.  It is super easy and by changing the size of the eyes or hair it can quickly turn into an original character that is a student's own creative inspiration. This is a good introduction to drawing cartoon faces.  Have fun with this drawing idea.

I have been sharing some of these drawing ideas with my students, and it is amazing to watch what they do with them.  The drawing ideas on this blog will help kids generate their own drawing ideas.  Today, I wanted to share a simple trick that helps kids get creative with their drawings. The idea is to exaggerate when you are drawing.  Try it.  Take one drawing of yours and just change one part of it by exaggerating.  Keep doing it.  It works amazingly well.  In this video, I give a really simple example.  You can see how the drawing idea adds life to the drawing.  I hope you find that it helps you to draw some cool pictures.